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FRIDAY MARCH 9
** LONDON - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Britain (Final day). ** NAIROBI - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds talks with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta halfway through his first diplomatic trip to Africa. ** ADDIS ABABA - Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov and Africa Union Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat hold a joint news conference at AU headquarters. ** BRUSSELS - Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili meets NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg - 1045 GMT.
PORT MORESBY - APEC First Senior Officials' Meeting and Related Meetings (Final Day).
PORT MORESBY – APEC SOM First Senior Officials' Meeting (Final Day). BRUSSELS - The European Union Justice and Home Affairs Council (Final Day).
BRUSSELS - Georgia President Giorgi Margvelashvili pays working visit to Brussels (to Mar. 10). N'DJAMENA/DJIBOUTI/ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI/ABUJA - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria (to March 13). GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Council, 37th session (to March 23).
GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional Working Group on Communications, 122nd session (to March 9). GENEVA – 88th Geneva International Motor Show (to March 18).
COLOMBO - UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman will visit Sri Lanka (to March 11). VILNIUS - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to meet Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. HANOI - South Korea's first female foreign minister, Kang Kyung Wha, visits Vietnam. She will meet with Vietnam deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, and pay courtesy calls to President Tran Dai Quang and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. TIBET - 59th anniversary of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fleeing into exile after a failed uprising. MUNICH, Germany - German economy summit meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel - 1000 GMT. DUSHANBE - Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Tajikistan (to Mar. 10). NEW DELHI - French President Emmanuel Macron on official visit to India (to March 12). VILNIUS - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will visit Lithuania. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 11 KIEV - The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini will visit Ukraine (to March 12). SENDAI, Japan – 7th anniversary of Sendai earthquake and tsunami. CUBA - Election Cuban National Assembly of People's Power. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 12 MOSCOW - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu starts his three-day visit to Russia (to March 14). WELLINGTON - Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visits New Zealand (to March 14). MOSCOW - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi visits Moscow (to March 13). TOKYO - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will pay an official visit to Japan.
GENEVA - United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, sixty third session (to Mar. 29). GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Committee, 122nd session (to Apr. 6). BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, MARCH 13 PARIS, France - Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change meet in France (to Mar 16).
BRUSSELS - The European Union Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 ASTANA - Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon will visit Kazakhstan. TEHRAN - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will pay an official visit to Iran.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 15 DUBLIN, Ireland - St. Patrick's Festival (to March 19). GLOBAL - World Day of Action against Seal Hunting. LONDON - Robert Ophele, chair of the authorities of financial markets, France's stock market regulator, gives an OMFIF City Lecture in London. SOFIA - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will meet Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov during a one-day visit to Bulgaria.
BRUSSELS - The European Union Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council on social policy meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 16 BUENOS AIRES - G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Buenos Aires (to March 20). 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 in the Kazakh capital city of Astana.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17 PORTLAND, United States - IAAF World Indoor Championships 2016 (to March 20) SYDNEY - ASEAN-Australia Special Summit (to Mar. 18).
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SUNDAY, MARCH 18 SINGAPORE – ASEAN 24th Meeting of Senior Officials Committee for the ASCC (SOCA) (to Mar. 22). - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, MARCH 19 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 Mar. 23). BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 20 BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22 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 Mar. 29). BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to Mar 23). - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 23 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 in Varna (Bulgaria). - - - - - - - - -
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. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 12 LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
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