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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, MARCH 19
** WARSAW - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Poland. ** CAIRO - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will visit Egypt. ** KUWAIT CITY/DOHA - Final day of Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko's visit to Kuwait before he visit to Qatar through March 20.
** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron hosts the Grand Duck and Duchess of Luxembourg for a two-day state visit to France. (to March 21) ** BERLIN - Iceland Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. (Final Day) GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Council, 37th session (to March 23).
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). DUBLIN, Ireland - St. Patrick's Festival (Final Day).
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)
BRASILIA - Miroslav Lajcak, president of the United Nations General Assembly's 72nd Session Period, will start a tour to Brazil (Final Day). WELLINGTON – Indonesian President Joko Widodo will visit New Zealand (Final Day).
SINGAPORE – ASEAN 24th Meeting of Senior Officials Committee for the ASCC (SOCA) (to March 22).
BUENOS AIRES - G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Buenos Aires (to March 20).
GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Council, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Twenty-second session (to March 23). - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, MARCH 20 ** TOKYO - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Japan to discuss bilateral relations and international issues, including the situation on the Korean peninsula. (to March 21) ** LJUBLJANA - Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl visits Slovenia – 1030 GMT.
** BRUSSELS - EU European Affairs ministers meet to discuss legislative priorities and Brexit. 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 ** BRUSSELS - European Council President Donald Tusk speaks at a news conference following a meeting with European social partners.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22 ** BEIJING - Cameroonian President Paul Biya will visit China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping (to March 24). ** SKOPJE - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias visits Macedonia (to March 23). 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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