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- SINGAPORE - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena visits Singapore and will attend the 'Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment' during his stay (to Jan. 27).
- BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - Malaysian Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu is on a visit to Brunei Darussalam (to Jan. 24).
- BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili hold joint news conference - 1330 GMT
- PARIS - Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid on a one-day working visit to France.
- PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin at the Elysee Palace in Paris - 1500 GMT.
- ALGIERS - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit Algeria.
DOHA - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visits Qatar (Final Day).
NEW DELHI - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth will visit India (to Jan. 28).
BRUSSELS - European Motor Show Brussels 2019 (to Jan. 27). BEIJING - Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen will pay an official visit to China (Final Day). BUCHAREST - European Affairs Ministers meet in Romania (Final Day).
FRANKFURT - Handelsblatt Annual German Energy Conference, speakers include Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall, EnBW CEO Frank Mastiaux, Germany's Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (to Jan. 24) DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum 2014 Annual Meeting (to Jan. 25).
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks in Moscow. PANAMA CITY, Florida - Pope Francis celebrates his third World Youth Day in Panama (to Jan. 27)
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- MOSCOW - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will pay a working visit to Russia and give a speech about the priorities of Armenia's Eurasian Economic Union chairmanship.
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- MOSCOW, Russia - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visits Russia.
- ROME - China Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends plenary session Italy-China Governing Committee with Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi - 1050 GMT.
BRUSSELS - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg - 1400 GMT
BRUSSELS - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets EU Council President Donald Tusk and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels - 0800 GMT. DAVOS, Switzerland - World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
EGYPT – Eighth Anniversary of beginning of Egyptian revolution, which marked a series of mass popular protests leading to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JANUARY 26NEW DELHI - India celebrates its Republic Day with a grand parade exhibiting its military might and national culture with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as the chief guest - 0230 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JANUARY 27CAIRO - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Egypt (to Jan. 29).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JANUARY 28SOFIA - European Commission's Vice President in charge of the euro currency Valdis Dombrovskis to discuss Bulgaria's path to the euro zone in a public debate in Sofia. Bulgarian Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov to attend. - 1230 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JANUARY 29MOSCOW - Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Al-Hakim will pay a visit to Russia (to Jan. 30). SOFIA - Bulgaria will host an economic forum on its bid to join the euro zone. EU Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov to attend. LONDON - Costa Book of the Year will be announced.
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- MEXICO CITY - Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez begins two-day official visit to Mexico, meets President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (to Jan. 31).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2GLOBAL - World Wetlands Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3SAN SALVADOR - EI Salvador Presidential Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4SAPPORO, Japan – 2019 Sapporo Snow Festival (to Feb. 11).
NEW YORK – Men's New York Fashion Week 2019 (to Feb. 6). GLOBAL - World Cancer Day. ABU DHABI - Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to attend an interfaith meeting - 0800 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5GLOBAL - Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated with a theme of 'Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you'.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6GLOBAL - International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.
- - - - - - - - - FEBRUARY 7NEW YORK – Women's New York Fashion Week 2019 (to Feb. 15). BRATISLAVA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet the prime ministers of the Visegrad group - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - at a summit in Bratislava.
PARIS - Environment ministers of France, Portugal, Spain and Britain as well as EU Energy Chief Maros Sefcovic will speak at Paris SER renewable energy conference - 0800 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8ASIA - Nirvana day, Buddhist festival marking the anniversary of Buddha's death
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
BRUSSELS - Euro Zone finance ministers meet in Brussels.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16ABUJA - Nigerian Presidential Election.
ABUJA - Nigerian House of Representatives election.
ABUJA - Nigerian Senate election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20CAIRO - The first summit between EU Member States and the Arab League to be held. European and Arab state leaders to discuss migration and other issues at the summit to be hosted by Egypt.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24HAVANA - Referendum election.
CAIRO - EU-League of Arab States summit (to Feb. 25).
CHISINAU - Moldovan Parliament election.
BANGKOK - Thailand Senate election.
BANGKOK - Thailand House of Representatives election.
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