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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events----------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, AUGUST 30
- BEIJING - Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso will speak to reporters in Beijing in a doorstep-style press conference, following meetings with Chinese officials.
- NAIROBI - British Prime Minister Theresa May visits Kenya & hold bilateral meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and later take part in a joint news conference. SINGAPORE - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz visits Singapore (Final Day). 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).
BEIJING - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will pay an official visit to China (Final Day).
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). 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 (Final Day).
VIENNA - Informal meeting of defence ministers meeting (to Aug. 31).
VENICE, Italy – 2018 Venice International Film Festival (to Sept. 8). MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem in Moscow for talks followed by a news conference - 1130 GMT. 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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- JAKARTA – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will visit Indonesia.
- ABUJA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari to address journalists at a joint press conference.
- BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with heads of state from Botswana and Burkina Faso ahead of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing. - 0230 GMT
BEIJING - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso meets Chinese counterpart Liu Kun in Beijing.
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- BISHKEK - President of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan visits Kyrgyzstan & meet President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Prime Minister Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev and Speaker of the Parliament Dastan Dzhumabekov (to Sep 02). MOSCOW - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Russia.
MAURITANIA - Mauritanian National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2JERUSALEM – 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.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3TOKYO - The president of Ecuador Lenin Moreno visits Japan. 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).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4FRANKFURT – Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a conference on "The future of Germany as a financial center in Europe" at Frankfurt Stock Exchange - 1700 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5AMMAN - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visits Jordan (to September 7). ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Pakistan.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6LUXEMBOURG - French President Emmanuel Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel meet with Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel to discuss European affairs and what they expect from the European Union - 1100 GMT. 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.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TABRIZ, Iran – Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet in northwestern city of Tabriz. TEHRAN - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Iran.
VIENNA - Eurogroup meeting - 0700 GMT
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8KARACHI - Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi visits Pakistan (to September 9).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9SWEDEN - Swedish Parliament election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10VIENNA – United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (to Sept. 14).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11HANOI - World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Vietnam. Details to be updated once available (to Sept. 13).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker gives annual State of the Union speech.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13MANILA - 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).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17VIENNA - IAEA, General Conference, Sixty-second session (to Sept. 21).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18WASHINGTON, D.C. – Polish President Andrzej Duda will make his first official visit to the White House and discuss bilateral ties with U.S. President Donald Trump.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21BERLIN - Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz to meet in Berlin.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23SWITZERLAND - Referendum election.
MALDIVES - President election.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28BERLIN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a state visit to Germany (to Sept. 29)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29NEW 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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