Political and General News Events from March 11

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—————————————————————– This diary is filed daily. Indicates new events —————————————————————– FRIDAY, MARCH 11 ** BERLIN – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Austrian’s President Alexander Van der Bellen in Berlin. – 0925 GMT ** ANKARA – Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodriguez will hold talks with high-ranking officials of the Turkish Foreign Ministry. ** ANKARA – The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will meet with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Minister of Foreign affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu. VERSAILLES, France – EU leaders gather for summit in Versailles (Final Day). WARSAW/ BUCHAREST – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Poland and Romania (Final Day)

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ABU DHABI – Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh pays an official five days visit to United Arab Emirates (Final Day) TAIPEI CITY – An eight-member delegation from Belize led by Johnny Briceño Prime Minister of Belize on a 5-day visit to Taiwan (To March 12) SARAJEVO/ PRISTINA/ BELGRADE/ CHISINAU – Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will visit Balkan countries Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, and Moldova (To March 12). GENEVA – 49th regular session of the Human Rights Council (To April 1).

MOSCOW – Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko to visit Russia and meet Vladimir Putin President of Russia and will discuss bilateral relations, economic cooperation under sanctions, and the situation in the region and Ukraine.

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PRETORIA – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Friday host Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on a working visit. Ramaphosa and Nyusi are expected to share views on regional, continental and global issues of mutual interest, particularly peace, security and economic development matters. – 0800 GMT” VERSAILLES, France – French President Emmanuel Macron, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel give a final news conference after a two-day summit on Ukraine. – 1430 GMT BUCHAREST – US vice president Kamala Harris to meet President Klaus Iohannis at the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest to discuss the current security situation in the region following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. BERLIN – Germany hosts a virtual meeting of agricultural ministers from G7 countries to discuss the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on global food security and how to best stabilize food markets SENDAI, Japan – 11th anniversary of Sendai earthquake and tsunami. – – – – – – – – –

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SATURDAY, MARCH 12 TURKMENISTAN – President election. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MARCH 13 ** BUCHAREST – Yair Lapid, foreign affairs minister of Israel, meets Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu. ISTANBUL – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to meet President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. COLOMBIA – Colombian Senate election. COLOMBIA – Colombian House of Representatives election. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MARCH 14 ** MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Moscow. – 0900 GMT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visits Greenland. (To March 17) BRUSSELS – Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal stance for 2023, banking union – 1400 GMT BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MARCH 15 GLOBAL – World Day of Action against Seal Hunting.

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DAMASCUS – Syria marks the 11th anniversary of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 BRUSSELS – NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels to discuss the war in Ukraine. HALABJA, Iraq – 34th anniversary of 5,000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attack.

DUBLIN, Ireland – St. Patrick’s Festival (to Mar. 20). AMSTERDAM – The Netherlands holds municipal elections. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MARCH 17

** BERLIN – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will give a speech before Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament via video link. ITALY – Anniversary of the unification of Italy – – – – – – – – –

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SATURDAY, MARCH 19 EGYPT – 11th anniversary of Egyptian referendum on constitutional reforms. DILI, Timor-Leste – Presidential election. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MARCH 20 PHNOM PENH – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits Phnom Penh and meets his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen. (To March 21) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MARCH 21 BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MARCH 22 GLOBAL – World Water Day. BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

DUBLIN – The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are to visit the Republic of Ireland (to Mar. 25)

GLOBAL – World Meteorological Day. – – – – – – – – –

THURSDAY, MARCH 24 GLOBAL – World Tuberculosis Day. BRUSSELS – Brussels hosts summit of European Union leaders (To Mar 25) BRUSSELS – European Council meeting (to March 25). – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, MARCH 25 PARIS – Finland Finance Minister Annika Saarikko will represent Finland at the informal meeting of finance ministers (Ecofin) in Paris. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MARCH 31

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VIENNA – 27th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting via videoconference. – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, APRIL 2 VALLETTA – Pope Francis to visit Malta (to April 3) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY , APRIL 3 COSTA RICA – President election. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, APRIL 4

BRUSSELS – Euro zone finance ministers meet on G20, banking union – 1300 GMT LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, APRIL 5 LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, APRIL 7 NAIROBI – Kenya’s Finance Minister Ukur Yatani is scheduled to present the government’s spending plan for the 2022/23 (July-June) fiscal year to parliament – 1100 GMT – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, APRIL 10 PARIS, France – Presidential election (First round) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY APRIL 11 LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, APRIL 12 LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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BRUSSELS – EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager speaks on artificial intelligence at a Politico event – 0700 GMT.

– – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, APRIL 24 LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Slovenian National Assembly election. PARIS, France – Presidential election (Second round) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, APRIL 25 NEW YORK, United States – Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up including the special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. (to Apr. 28) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 1 VATICAN CITY – 11th anniversary of beatification ceremony of late Pope John Paul II.

– – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 2 ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – The day marks the 11th year since al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. special forces raid, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 3 GLOBAL – World Asthma Day. GLOBAL – World Press Freedom Day. – – – – – – – – –

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SUNDAY, MAY 8 GLOBAL – World Red Cross Red Crescent Day. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 9

MANILA, Philippines – Presidential election. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 TURIN, Italy, – 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (To May 14).

– – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 12 GLOBAL – International Nurse’s Day. WEISSENHAUS, Germany – EU Foreign Minister meeting in Weissenhaus,Schleswig-Holstein (To May 14) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 15 GLOBAL – U.N. International Day of Families. – – – – – – – – –

MONDAY, MAY 16 LISBON – 10th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 17

GLOBAL – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 GLOBAL – International Museum Day. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, MAY 20 BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 22 GLOBAL – International Day for Biological Diversity.

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– – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 23 BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 24

BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 29 BOGOTA, Colombia – Presidential election. – – – – – – – – –

MONDAY, MAY 30 BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – –

TUESDAY, MAY 31 GLOBAL – World No Tobacco Day. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – NOTE: The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will file a story based on the event.

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