News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from August 28

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    TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 
    

    • BEIJING – Peruvian Foreign Minister Nestor Popolizio meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing.
    • BEIJING - Cote d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara, Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio, Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi and Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will attend the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and pay state visits to China (to September 7).
    • BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will give a speech at a meeting of ambassadors in Budapest with his Moldovan counterpart, following their bilateral meeting.

    BEIJING – The Uruguayan Foreign Minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa will pay an official visit to China at the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (Final Day).

    CAIRO/ ADDIS ABABA - Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse are going to pay State visits to Ethiopia and Egypt (to Aug. 29).

    BEIJING - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will pay an official visit to China (to Aug. 30).

    BEIJING - Peruvian Foreign Minister Nestor Francisco Popolizio Bardales pay an official visit to China (to Aug. 29).

    SINGAPORE - 50th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting & Related Meetings 6th RCEP Ministerial Meeting (to Sept. 2). THAILAND - Special Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM)-(to Aug. 31). DAKAR - World Health Organization conference - WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Gebeyesus to discuss health issues in Africa (to Aug 31).

    JOHANNESBURG/ ABUJA/ NAIROBI - British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. May will give a speech in South Africa early on 28th August (Tuesday) morning. (to Aug. 31). COPENHAGEN, Denmark - French President Emmanuel Macron on a state visit to Denmark, meets Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and holds news conference.

    PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis visits Italy and Malta, where he will meets counterparts Giuseppe Conte and Joseph Muscat.

    BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic speak to reporters after their working lunch. - 1000 GMT

    MILAN, Italy - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini meets Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban - 1500 GMT

    WASHINGTON DC, United States - U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Indonesian Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu confer at the Pentagon - 1815 GMT SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Spain President Pedro Sanchez on official visit to meet Bolivian President Evo Morales.

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    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29 
    

    PARIS, France - Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland delivers speech in conference of French ambassadors.

    PARIS, France - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz speak at the annual summer conference of MEDEF employers' association - 1800 GMT

    BOGOTA - Spain President Pedro Sanchez visits Colombia and meets Colombian President Ivan Duque.

    MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir in Moscow.

    HELSINKI - The French President Emmanuel Macron will make an official visit to Finland and meet his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto as well as Prime Minister Juha Sipila (to Aug. 30).

    VIENNA - Informal meeting of defence ministers meeting (to Aug. 30).

    VENICE, Italy – 2018 Venice International Film Festival (to Sept. 8).

    COPENHAGEN - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Denmark.

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    THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 
    

    • SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, makes an official visit to Costa Rica (to August 31).
    • VIENNA - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attends the informal "Gymnich" meeting of foreign ministers of EU countries and candidate countries in Vienna. (to August 31).

    KATHMANDU - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Nepal for the fourth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit (to August 31).

    ISLAMABAD - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits Pakistan.

    BOGOTA, Colombia - Spain's president Pedro Sanchez on official visit to meet Colombia's President Ivan Duque. ACCRA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Ghana.

    VIENNA - Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers (to Aug. 31).

    ABUJA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pays a state visit to Nigeria (to Aug. 31).

    COPENHAGEN - World Food Summit (to Aug. 31).

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    FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 
    

    BEIJING - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso meets Chinese counterpart Liu Kun in Beijing.

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    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 
    

    MOSCOW - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Russia.

    MAURITANIA - Mauritanian National Assembly election.

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 
    

    JERUSALEM – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to discuss cooperation in labor, tourism, trade, agriculture, counterterrorism and law enforcement (to Sept. 5).

    RWANDA - Rwandan Chamber of Deputies election.

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    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 
    

    JERUSALEM - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte continues his visit to Israel (to Sep. 04).

    MOSCOW - Moldovan President Igor Dodon expected in Moscow with official visit on September (to Sep. 6).

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    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 
    

    ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Pakistan.

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    NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hold talks with India Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

    LUXEMBOURG CITY - French President Emmanuel Macron holds a public meeting on the subject of the future of the European Union with Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel - 1500 GMT.

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    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 
    

    TEHRAN - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Iran.

    VIENNA - Eurogroup meeting - 0700 GMT

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    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 
    
    • KARACHI - Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi visits Pakistan (to September 9). - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

    SWEDEN - Swedish Parliament election.

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    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 
    

    VIENNA – United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (to Sept. 14).

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    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 
    

    HANOI - World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Vietnam. Details to be updated once available (to Sept. 13).

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    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 
    
    • BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker gives annual State of the Union speech. - - - - - - - - -

    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 MANILA - Philippines' economic managers, transportation officials and businessmen attend the Arangkada 2018 forum on infrastructure projects - 0030 GMT.

    RIGA - The Presidents of 13 EU members will meet in Latvia in the 14th meeting of the Arraiolos Group, where they will discuss the future of Europe and future security challenges. The event coincides with Latvia's centenary year (to Sept. 14).

    RIGA - The Presidents of Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Hungary and Germany meet to discuss EU matters (to Sept. 14).

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    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 
    

    VIENNA - IAEA, General Conference, Sixty-second session (to Sept. 21).

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    BERLIN - Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz to meet in Berlin.

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 
    

    SWITZERLAND - Referendum election.

    MALDIVES - President election.

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    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 
    

    BERLIN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a state visit to Germany (to Sept. 29)

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    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 
    

    NEW YORK - Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will visit New York to participate in the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (to Oct. 2).

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