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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, MARCH 16
** WASHINGTON D.C. - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with U.S. Deputy State Secretary John Sullivan to discuss North Korea's missile and nuclear issues ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's U.S. trip in April as well as North Korea's summit meetings with the South and the United States (to March 18).
** STOCKHOLM - North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho visits Stockholm (Final Day).
** BUENOS AIRES - IMF Chief Christine Lagarde meets Argentina's President Mauricio Macri during her visit to Buenos Aires where she will participate at the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers.
** LONDON - British foreign minister Boris Johnson meets his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz. ** SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Foreign ministers and EU officials will discuss prospectives of the Western Balkan countries for accession to the EU - 1130 GMT.
BOGOTA - Miroslav Lajcak, president of the United Nations General Assembly's 72nd Session Period, starts a tour of Colombia and will meet President Juan Manuel Santos, Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin and other officials (to March 17). SYDNEY - Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrives in Australia for a two-day tour and a special Association of South East Asian Nations summit (Final Day).
BRAZIL - World Social Forum 2018 (to March 17).
HAVANA - Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta travels to Cuba (Final Day). GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Council, 37th session (to March 23).
GENEVA – 88th Geneva International Motor Show (to March 18). TOKYO - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will pay an official visit to Japan (to March 17). GENEVA - United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, sixty third session (to March 29). GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Committee, 122nd session (to April 6). PARIS - Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change meet in France (to March 16).
DUBLIN, Ireland - St. Patrick's Festival (to March 19).
WARSAW - Germany's new Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will visit Warsaw & meets his Polish Foreign Minister , Jacek Czaputowicz, as well as Polish President, Andrzej Duda.
MADRID - European Council President Donald Tusk meets Spain Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
BAKU - Moldova's President Igor Dodon to visit Azerbaijan to discuss bilateral relations.
PARIS - German chancellor Angela Merkel to meet French president Emmanuel Macron.
SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong hold a news conference.
SYDNEY - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Defence Minister Marise Payne hold a joint news conference with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu after formal talks ahead of the Friday-Sunday ASEAN Special Summit - 0010 GMT.
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven hold a joint news conference after meeting in Berlin - 1200 GMT.
PARIS - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and his incoming German counterpart Olaf Scholz hold a news conference after their first meeting following Scholz's nomination - 1330 GMT. MADRID - Bolivian President Morales meets Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy - 1600 GMT. HALABJA, Iraq - 30th anniversary of 5000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attack.
ASTANA - Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish and Iranian counterparts, Mevlut Cavusoglu and Mohammad Javad Zarif, meet.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17 ** SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Indonesian President Joko Widodo give keynote speeches at a CEO forum lunch.
** SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak give closing remarks after a counter-terrorism conference during the ASEAN-Australia summit.
** MAPUTO/HARARE - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa makes a working visit to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
BUENOS AIRES - Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's 20 biggest economies are scheduled to meet in Buenos Aires (to March 20). BAKU - OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan (to March 19).
PORTLAND, United States - IAAF World Indoor Championships 2016 (to March 20) SYDNEY - ASEAN-Australia Special Summit (to March 18).
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SUNDAY, MARCH 18 ** SYDNEY - Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses a news conference after the ASEAN special summit.
BRASILIA - Miroslav Lajcak, president of the United Nations General Assembly's 72nd Session Period, will start a tour to Brazil (to March 19). WELLINGTON – Indonesian President Joko Widodo will visit New Zealand (to March 19).
SINGAPORE – ASEAN 24th Meeting of Senior Officials Committee for the ASCC (SOCA) (to March 22). - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 19 ** BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg to meet British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
BUENOS AIRES - G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Buenos Aires (to March 20).
EGYPT – 7th anniversary of Egyptian referendum on constitutional reforms. GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Council, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Twenty-second session (to March 23). BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 20 WASHINGTON D.C.- Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to visit White House.
BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 TOKYO - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Japan to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula (to March 22).
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22 ** NEW DELHI - Germany President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit India (to March 25).
GLOBAL - World Water Day. INDONESIA – 2nd Meeting of the Senior Economic Officials for the 49th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting (SEOM 2/49) and Related Meetings (to March 29). BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to March 23). - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 23 KEIV - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will visit Ukraine.
BUDAPEST - Polish President Andrzej Duda to visit Hungary (to March 24). - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, MARCH 24 GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 26 VARNA, Bulgaria - EU-Turkey leaders' meeting. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 NEW YORK - United Nations High-level International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, Organizational session. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MARCH 31 DUBAI - HORSE RACING - 2018 Dubai World Cup. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 1 IRAN - Independence Day
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MONDAY, APRIL 2 GLOBAL - World Autism Awareness Day.
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina marks 36th anniversary of start of Falklands war.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 3 ANKARA - Meeting of the Russian-Turkish High Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) involving Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 GLOBAL - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, APRIL 5 AUGUSTA, United States - U.S. Masters Golf 2016 (to April 8). SINGAPORE - 22nd ASEAN Finance Ministers' Meeting (to April 6). - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, APRIL 6 SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to April 16). - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 GLOBAL - World Health Organisation observes World Health Day. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, APRIL 8 WASHINGTON/MOSCOW - 8th anniversary of signing a new bilateral treaty between the Russia and United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, START-2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). GLOBAL - International Roma Nation Day.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 10 SMOLENSK, Russia/CRACOW, Poland - 8th Anniversary of the Smolensk Tragedy to be held in Smolensk, Russia, as well as in Poland.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12 LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
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- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 23 SHANGHAI - External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to China to attend the foreign ministers' meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (to April 24)
WASHINGTON D.C. - French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the United States (to April 25). - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 27 SOFIA - Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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