News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from Nov. 16

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 
    

    PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Hungarian Foreign Minister P.Szijjart visits Prague - 0930 GMT

    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). BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting

    DOHA - President of Rwanda Paul Kagame starts a two-day official visit to Qatar. (Final Day)

    SINGAPORE - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will pay an official visit to Singapore at the invitation of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (Final Day)

    GENEVA – United Nations UNCTAD, Trade and Development Commission, Tenth session (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 (Final Day).

    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 (Final Day). TOKYO/ SINGAPORE/ SYDNEY/ PORT MORESBY - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Japan, Singapore, Australia, and Papua New Guinea (to Nov. 18). 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)

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    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 
    

    • PORT MORESBY - Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at the APEC CEO Summit - 0000 GMT.

    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).

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 
    

    • BEIJING - Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, President of the Portuguese parliament, will visit China (to Nov.20).
    • BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Brunei (Nov. 19).

    PRAGUE/ZAGREB - Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan will pay an official visit to the Czech Republic and the Republic of Croatia (to Nov. 25)

    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.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 
    

    • JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be on a state visit to South Africa (to Nov. 21). WELLINGTON - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to visit New Zealand.

    ANKARA - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey.

    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

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 
    

    • MINSK, Belarus - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Belarus (Nov. 21).

    VIENNA - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu visits Austria. KUALA LUMPUR - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will pay a two-day official visit to Malaysia (to Nov. 21) 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). BERN - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian 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.

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    WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 
    

    GLOBAL - World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day. MANILA - Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Philippines.

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    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 
    
    • ROME - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov will make a working visit to Italy (to Nov. 23).
    • ATHENS - Greece Foreign Minister Alexis Tsipras, Bulgaria Foreign Minister Ekaterina Spasova Gecheva-Zakharieva, Macedonia Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov and Albania Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati will gather for a meeting (to Nov. 23).

    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).

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 
    

    COPENHAGEN - Hungary Foreign and Trade minister Peter Szijjarto visits Denmark.

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 
    

    BAHRAIN - Bahraini Council of Representatives election.

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 
    

    GLOBAL - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

    SWITZERLAND - Referendum election.

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    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

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 
    

    HANOI - North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho visits Vietnam (to Nov. 29)

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    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 
    
    • BUENOS AIRES - Bilateral meeting between Argentina President Mauricio Macri and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte before the beginning of the G20 Summit - 2100 GMT.

    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).

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    SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 
    

    • BUENOS AIRES - Argentina President Mauricio Macri receives the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at the Government House in Buenos Aires - 2200 GMT. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DECEMBER 3
    • ZURICH - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives speech in Zurich - 1730 GMT.

    BRUSSELS - Euro Zone finance ministers meeting - 1400 GMT.

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    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 
    

    • BRUSSELS - European Union Finance Ministers meet - 0800 GMT.
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    THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 
    

    VIENNA - 175th (Ordinary) OPEC Meeting.

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    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.

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    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 
    

    MADAGASCAR – President's election.

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    THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 
    

    TOGO - Togolese National Assembly election.

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    SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23 
    

    DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - President election.

    DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Congolese National Assembly election.

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