News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from October 9

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 
    
    • PARIS - Mongolian Foreign Minister D.Tsogtbaatar will visit France at the invitation of Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian (Final Day).
    • ASTANA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan (to Oct. 10)
    • PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets his Uzbekistan counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the Elysee Palace, while a French government reshuffle is under way - 0900 GMT.
    • SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang in a gesture designed to highlight peace efforts on the Korean peninsula - 0610 GMT.
    • BRUSSELS – European Commision President Jean-Claude Juncker meets Roberto Fico, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy - 0800 GMT.

    BUDAPEST - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to pay an official visit to Hungary (Final Day).

    DUSHANBE – Indian President Ramnath Kovind to visit Tajikistan (Final Day).

    BEIJING - Angolan President Joao Lourenco visits China and meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (to Oct. 10)

    SINGAPORE - Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos will visit Singapore.

    RIGA - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex visit Latvia.

    TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe chairs a summit with leaders of the five Mekong countries, including Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha Cambodia's Hun Sen, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith.

    MADRID - Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to meet Chile President Sebastian Pinera - 0800 GMT.

    BUDAPEST - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to speak at a business event - 0900 GMT.

    MADRID - Chilean President Pinera meets Spain King Felipe at Zarzuela Palace - 1100 GMT.

    LUZERN, Switzerland - Poland President Andrzej Duda and his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, will take part in the ceremony commemorating Konstanty Rokicki – Polish consul, who was saving Jews during the Second World War - 1200 GMT.

    MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak in Moscow. ZURICH - Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks on The Future of Europe - Foundations of Unity of the States of Europe - 1630 GMT.

    PARIS - Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit France (to Oct. 10).

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 
    

    • LISBON - Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Ferreira visits Portugal and meets with his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva.
    • MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to meet Foreign Minister of Andorra Maria Ubach - 1200 GMT.
    • BRUSSELS - EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks at the European Parliament of Enterprises 2018 event, organized by Eurochambres - 1400 GMT.

    SYDNEY - Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne and Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne hold news conference with their Japanese counterparts, Taro Kono and Takeshi Iwaya in Sydney.

    BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Chilean President Sebastian Pinera who is on a tour of Europe which also takes him to France, Belgium, Spain and the Vatican - 1000 GMT.

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Netherlands for meetings with her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte - 1700 GMT.

    ISTANBUL, Turkey - The Turkey-Africa economic and business forum is hosted by the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board in Istanbul - 0600 GMT BEIJING - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Angolan President Joao Lourenco at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

    ATHENS - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Greece (to Oct. 12). GLOBAL - World Post Day.

    GLOBAL - World Mental Health Day.

    GLOBAL - World Day Against the Death Penalty.

    FIJI – 48th Anniversary of Independence.

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    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 
    
    • BEIJING - Norway King Harald V will pay a state visit China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping (to Oct. 20).

    MAINZ, Germany - Dutch King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima visit the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

    ATHENS - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Greece, where he is due to hold talks with Greece President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

    MOGILEV, Belarus - Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the Forum of Regions in Belarus, meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko.

    Dushanbe/ Amsterdam/ City of Brussels - Chinese premier Li Keqiang to visit Tajikistan, Netherlands and Belgium to attend SCO meeting, ASEM summit (to Oct. 19). BALI, Indonesia - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde addresses a news conference ahead of the IMF, World Bank annual meeting on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.

    GLOBAL - World Sight Day.

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    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 
    
    • BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives her Slovenian counterpart Marjan Sarec with military honors in Berlin - 1030 GMT.
    • BRUSSELS - Belgian King Philippe meets with Chili's President Sebastian Pinera - 1230 GMT.

    BALI, Indonesia - G20 members give a news conference on the sidelines of the IMF, World Bank annual meeting on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.

    BALI NUSA DUA, Indonesia - 2018 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (to Oct. 14)

    BALI - 16th anniversary of Bali bombings.

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    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 
    
    • VATICAN CITY - Chile President Sebastian Pinera will meet Pope Francis in Rome - 1300 GMT.

    BALI, Indonesia - The International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) holds a news conference on the sidelines of the IMF, World Bank annual meeting on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.

    GLOBAL - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction.

    SAN JOSE, Chile – 8th anniversary rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed Andean mine.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 
    

    LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies election.

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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 
    

    LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

    PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Senior Finance Officials' Meeting (SFOM)

    GLOBAL - United Nation's World Hand-Washing day.

    GLOBAL - International Day of Rural Women.

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 
    

    LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

    PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Finance and Central Banks Deputies Meeting.

    GLOBAL - World Food Day.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 
    

    MOSCOW - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will visit Russia and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Finance Ministers Meeting. GLOBAL - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

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    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 
    

    BRUSSELS - Euro Summit TASHKENT – Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Uzbekistan (to Oct. 19). BRUSSELS- Asia-Europe Meeting (to Oct. 19). JERUSALEM – 7th anniversary of release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years of being held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. BHUTAN - Bhutanese National Assembly election.

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    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 
    

    TRIPOLI – 7th anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. AFGHANISTAN - Afghan House of People election.

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 
    

    LIBYA – 7th anniversary of declaration of Libya's Liberation.

    VAN, Turkey – 7th anniversary of earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,000 others.

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    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 
    

    IRELAND – President election.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 
    

    GEORGIA – President election.

    MALI - Malian National Assembly election.

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 
    

    BERLIN - Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials in Berlin.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 
    

    MOSCOW - Moldovan President Igor Dodon visits Russia and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (to Nov. 1).

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 
    

    NEW CALEDONIA – Referendum election.

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 
    

    GUAM - Non-Voting Delegate To Us House Of Representatives election.

    United States - US House of Representatives election.

    Guam - Legislature of Guam election.

    United States - US Senate election.

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    WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 
    

    MADAGASCAR – President election.

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 
    

    GUINEA-BISSAU - Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly election.

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 
    

    MALI - Malian National Assembly election.

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