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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 ** SEOUL - Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-i. ** PARIS - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire meets U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin - 1300 GMT.
** ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hosts Chad President Idriss Deby at the presidential palace - 1430 GMT. JERUSALEM - Liberian President George Weah visits Israel (to Feb. 28).
VENICE, Italy - Venice Carnival (NYSE:CCL) 2019 (to Mar. 5).
BEIJING - Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit China to attend Russia-India-China (RIC) meet (Final Day).
HANOI - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a second summit in Vietnam (to Mar. 1). PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin at the Elysee Palace - 1630 GMT
WUZHEN, China (PRC) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province at the 16th Russia, India, China foreign ministers' meeting. - 0930 GMT.
BAKU - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit Azerbaijan to discuss Georgian-Azerbaijani cooperation in Baku. GENEVA, Switzerland - Foreign minister of Venezuela Jorge Arreaza Montserrat scheduled to give a speech during Conference on Disarmament session - 1430 GMT HANOI - U.S. President Donald Trump meets with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi - 0400 GMT
HANOI- U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi - 0500 GMT
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace MADRID - Peruvian President Martín Alberto Vizcarra meets King Felipe VI on a state visit to Spain - 0900 GMT. HANOI - U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi - 0500 GMT.
BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, central bank Governor Gyorgy Matolcsy and Finance Minister Mihaly Varga to speak at an annual conference organised by the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - 0900 GMT.
MOSCOW - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow - 0600 GMT.
LONDON - British parliament debates Brexit. LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May takes questions in parliament – 1200 GMT. WUZHEN, China - Foreign ministers of China, Russia and India will hold a meet in Wuzhen.
TEHRAN - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will visit Iran. CARACAS – 30th anniversary of deadly Caracas riots. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, February 28 ** ATHENS - EU's Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici will meet Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. He will then address Greek parliament's committees on European, foreign and financial affairs.
** LONDON - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visits London for a conference on investment in Jordan. ** LONDON - UK Prime Minister Theresa May, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz and U.K. Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt to attend Jordan investment conference. - 0900 GMT. ** LONDON - UK's Financial Conduct Authority head of asset management to deliver a speech on Brexit. - 0930 GMT.
VIENNA - The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, meets Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, followed by a joint news conference - 1315 GMT ASTANA - Finnish Foreign Trade and Development Minister Anne-Mari Virolainen visits Kazakhstan (to March 1) MANILA - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits the Philippines.
GENEVA, Switzerland - WTO's General Council meeting.
ATHENS - European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici will once again be visiting the Hellenic Parliament.
ISTANBUL - Turkey-European Union High Level Dialogue officials meet regarding economy and cooperation in Turkey. KOSICE, Slovakia – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets Central European, Baltic, Bulgarian and Romanian presidents. VIENNA - VIENNA Opera Ball 2019. - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, MARCH 1 ** HANOI - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes an official visit to Vietnam after summit with U.S. President Donald Trump (to Mar. 2). MADRID, Spain - Peru President Martin VVizcarra to attend Peruvian economy forum in Madrid - 0800 GMT. SOFIA - NATO Secretary Geneberal Jens Stoltenberg visits Bulgaria.
LISBON - IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde meets Portuguese leaders, including President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, to discuss the impact of Brexit. ATLANTA, United States - 1st APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Meeting (to March 4).
CAIRO - Arab foreign ministers to hold regular meeting at the Arab league headquarters in Cairo to discuss regional affairs. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, MARCH 3
GLOBAL - International Day for Ear and Hearing. TALLINN - Estonian Parliament election. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 4 SOFIA - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrives on a two-day official visit to Bulgaria (to Mar. 5) - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, MARCH 5 ** GENEVA - Geneva Disarmament Forum holds debate on Nuclear Ban Treaty – 1600 GMT. LUXEMBOURG CITY - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's official visit to Luxembourg (to Mar. 6).
BRUSSELS - EU-Georgia Association Council meeting. MOSCOW – 66th Death anniversary of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. PALIKIR - Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia election.
PALIKIR - Referendum election. BRUSSELS - EU environment ministers meet to discuss foreign affairs matters.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 ** PARIS - OECD chief Economist Laurence Boone to hold a press conference to unveil the policy forum's economic outlook for member countries and world's major economies. - 1000 GMT
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7 ** WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babis at the White House.
BRUSSELS - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting (to March 8).
CHIANG RAI, Thailand - ASEAN Senior Officials' Meeting (to March 8).
HONG KONG - ASEAN+3 Taskforce Meeting (Finance) (to March 8). GENEVA – 89th Geneva International Motor Show (to March 17). SANTIAGO - APEC First Senior Officials' Meeting (to March 8).
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8
GLOBAL - International Women's Day. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, MARCH 10
TIBET – 60th anniversary of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fleeing into exile after a failed uprising. BISSAU - Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 11 BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. SENDAI, Japan – 8th anniversary of Sendai earthquake and tsunami. BRUSSELS - European Union finance ministers meet in Brussels (to March 12). HOUSTON, United States - Global energy ministers and executives from the world's largest oil producers meet in Houston to discuss factors affecting oil and gas, electricity and power markets (to March 15). BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers to meet in Brussels. BAGHDAD - Iran President Hassan Rouhani to visit Iraq. - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, MARCH 12
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13
NAIROBI - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Kenya (to March 14) - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, MARCH 14
DUBLIN - St. Patrick's Festival (to March 18). - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, MARCH 15
BRUSSELS - EU-Turkey Association Council meeting. GLOBAL - World Day of Action against Seal Hunting.
DAMASCUS - Syria marks the 8th anniversary of an increasingly bloody uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 16
HALABJA, Iraq – 31st anniversary of 5,000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attack. BRATISLAVA - Presidential election. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, MARCH 17 ** JAKARTA - Indonesian presidential to debate on education, health and other issues.
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MONDAY, MARCH 18 BRUSSELS - EU foreign affairs ministers meet to be held to discuss foreign affairs matters. - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, MARCH 19 EGYPT – 8th anniversary of Egyptian referendum on constitutional reforms. BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to March 22). - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, MARCH 22
GLOBAL - World Water Day. - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
GLOBAL - World Meteorological Day. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, MARCH 24
GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.
OUAGADOUGOU - Referendum election.
MORONI - Presidential election. BANGKOK - Thailand House of Representatives election. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 25
LONDON - OMFIF-World Trade Organisation seminar. - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, MARCH 30 ** JAKARTA - Indonesia hosts a fourth presidential debate on state ideology, governance, security and international relations.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 31 KIEV - Presidential election. BAGHDAD - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Iraq.
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