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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 ** BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgium's King Philippe meets South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at Laeken Royal castle - 1330 GMT ** WASHINGTON DC, United States - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Muhammad al-Atiyah at the State Department - 1600 GMT
** BERLIN - The Economic Summit conference organized by Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily will focus on issues in economy, politics and society. Speakers include Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier and Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (Final Day)
** GLOBAL - World Diabetes Day.
TOKYO/ SINGAPORE/ SYDNEY/ PORT MORESBY - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Japan, Singapore, Australia, and Papua New Guinea (to Nov. 18). SINGAPORE - 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit (to Nov. 15).
SINGAPORE - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will pay an official visit to Singapore at the invitation of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (to Nov. 16) GENEVA – United Nations UNCTAD, Trade and Development Commission, Tenth session (to Nov. 16). STOCKHOLM - Italian President Sergio Mattarella visits Sweden as Rome and Brussels are locked in a fight over the Italian budget (to Nov. 15). SINGAPORE - Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a series of bilateral meetings during his visit to Singapore (to Nov. 15). OSLO - Defence Ministers from the Nordic, Baltic, Germany, Netherlands, Poland and Britain will meet in Oslo to discuss security challenges and the future development of their defence cooperation (Final Day). SINGAPORE - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Singapore for attending a series of ASEAN-related meetings, including the East Asia Summit (to Nov. 16).
SINGAPORE - Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as leaders gather in Singapore for the 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit - 0530 GMT SINGAPORE - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of ASEAN summit in Singapore - 0700 GMT
SINGAPORE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet United States Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of the 13th East Asia Summit in Singapore.
SINGAPORE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speak at a session on the third day of the Fintech Festival organized in Singapore. - 0130 GMT
BOGOTA - Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez, Energy Minister Maria Fernanda Suarez, head of state oil company Ecopetrol and other officials will speak over the course of a three-day conference in Bogota (to Nov. 16). SINGAPORE - ASEAN leaders meet with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Singapore. FIJI - Fijian Parliament election. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
** GUATEMALA CITY - Bolivia's President Evo Morales visits Guatemala city. PORT MORESBY/ BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN/ MANILA - Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Papua New Guinea, Brunei, and the Philippines, and will attend APEC meeting (to Nov. 21) PORT MORESBY - Papua New Guinea Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Rimbink Pato and ministers from the region will seek consensus on new ways for advancing next generation trade and growth. WASHINGTON D.C., - Tobias Adrian, financial counsellor and director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund, participates in panel, "Unconventional Monetary Policy, Interest Rates, and Asset Prices" before the Cato Institute "Monetary Policy 10 Years After the Crisis" conference, in Washington - 1630 GMT. ZURICH, Switzerland – Switzerland Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis speaks on "Switzerland in Europe" - 1730 GMT. TORONTO, Canada - Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will present the fall economic statement of Canada's biggest province. It will be the first budget update for the new Progressive (NYSE:PGR) Conservative Party government - 2100 GMT. SINGAPORE - ASEAN leaders meet with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Singapore. SINGAPORE - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong holds a news conference after ASEAN summit. TASHKENT - Kyrgyzstan Economy Minister Oleg Pankratov visits Uzbekistan.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 ** GLOBAL - International Day for Tolerance.
** SINGAPORE - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence meets Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
** SINGAPORE - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tours a Singapore landmark on the last day of his visit in the city state.
DARWIN, Australia - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in Darwin, Australia for meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (to Nov. 17). RIGA, Latvia - Iceland's President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson visits Latvia - 0730 GMT
BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker meets Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis - 0900 GMT
PORT MORESBY - Papua New Guinea hosts the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit (to Nov. 18).
PORT MORESBY - Indonesian President Joko Widodo addresses APEC summit. BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 ** GLOBAL - World Prematurity Day.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev delivers a speech at the opening of the APEC CEO summit. - 0030 GMT PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the APEC CEO summit. - 0115 GMT
PORT MORESBY - Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the APEC CEO Summit - 0115 GMT. BRUSSELS - EU leaders gather for emergency summit on Brexit (to Nov.18). PORT MORESBY - APEC Leaders will meet their counterparts from across the Pacific islands to address regional trade issues. PORT MORESBY – APEC Summit address by Prime Minister of Russia Dimitry Medvedev, Vice President of the United States Mike Pence, President of China Xi Jinping, President of South Korea Moon Jae-In. PORT MORESBY - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Papua New Guinea for attending APEC summit (to Nov. 18). - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 ** VUKOVAR, Croatia – 27th Anniversary of Vukovar Massacre. On Nov. 18, 1991, Serb Militia and Yugoslav Army Troops Who Refused to Accept Croatia's Independence Captured the Once Prosperous, Ethnically Mixed Town on the Banks of the Danube, after Reducing it to Rubble in a Brutal three-Month Siege. ** GLOBAL - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
** HANOI - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will make an official visit to Vietnam. (to Nov. 19) BERLIN - French President Emmanuel Macron participates in international youth meeting "Youth for Peace - 100 Years after World War I, 100 Ideas for Peace". - 0930 GMT
BERLIN - French President Emmanuel Macron will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. GUINEA-BISSAU - Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19
** BRUSSELS - French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron on an official state visit to Belgium (to Nov.20)
GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, eighty-third session (to Nov. 23). VIENNA – United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors, Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee (to Nov. 21). BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 ** HANOI - Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will be in Hanoi on Tuesday as part of his three-day visit to Vietnam. He is scheduled to meet Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (to Nov 22).
** Austrian Chancellor Kurz pays working visit to Switzerland and meets Swiss President Alain Berset - 0900 GMT MANILA - China President Xi Jinping starts a two-day visit to the Philippines (to Nov. 21). BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 ** GLOBAL - World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day.
MANILA - Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Philippines. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 MADRID - Launch of OECD Economic Survey: Spain 2018, Madrid, Spain. GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Forum on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, Second session (to Nov. 23). VIENNA - United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors (to Nov. 23). HAVANA - Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Official visits to Cuba (to Nov. 23). - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 COPENHAGEN - Hungary Foreign and Trade minister Peter Szijjarto visits Denmark. - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 ** BAHRAIN - Bahraini Council of Representatives election. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 ** GLOBAL - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. ** SWITZERLAND - Referendum election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26 ** MUMBAI, India - 10th anniversary of a series of devastating attacks on the Indian city by militants. The attacks, which began on November 26, 2008 and lasted nearly three days, left 174 people dead, including nine gunmen.
** HAMBURG - Vice President of China, Liu He, to particilate Humburg Summit (to Nov. 27)
GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Forum on Business and Human Rights, Seventh session (to Nov. 28). GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, Thirty-fifth session (to Nov. 30). BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
HANOI - North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho visits Vietnam (to Nov. 29) - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 ** TEHRAN – 7th Anniversary of an attack on the British Embassy by dozens of Iranian students and protesters angry over Britain's unilateral sanctions.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 BUENOS AIRES - G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires (to Dec. 1). - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3
BRUSSELS - Euro Zone finance ministers meeting - 1400 GMT. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6
VIENNA - 175th (Ordinary) OPEC Meeting. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
** MOSCOW - Sudan's Oil and Gas Minister Azhari Abdalla travels to Russia for a meeting with Russian ministers (to Dec. 12)
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 TOGO – Referendum election. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 ** MADAGASCAR – President's election. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 TOGO - Togolese National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - President election. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Congolese National Assembly election.
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