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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events----------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
- AMMAN, Jordan - Iraqi President Barham Salih visits Jordan and meets King Abdullah.
- PRISTINA, Kosovo - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto visits Kosovo.
- SOFIA, Bulgaria - Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev visits Bulgaria and holds a joint news conference with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. - 1200 GMT
- ANTIGUA, Guatemala - Spain’s King Felipe and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto address the 12th Ibero-American Business Meeting ahead of the Ibero-American Summit. - 1630 GMT
- DOHA - President of Rwanda Paul Kagame starts a two-day official visit to Qatar. (to Nov.16)
- SINGAPORE - Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad will have a bilateral meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, followed by a meeting with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
- SINGAPORE - Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Singapore on the sidelines of the 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.
- SINGAPORE - Russian President Vladimir Putin has a brief meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of an international conference in Singapore.
GUATEMALA CITY - Bolivia's President Evo Morales visits Guatemala city.
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)
PORT MORESBY - Papua New Guinea Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Rimbink Pato and ministers from the region will seek consensus on new ways for advancing next generation trade and growth.
WASHINGTON D.C., - Tobias Adrian, financial counsellor and director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund, participates in panel, "Unconventional Monetary Policy, Interest Rates, and Asset Prices" before the Cato Institute "Monetary Policy 10 Years After the Crisis" conference, in Washington - 1630 GMT.
ZURICH, Switzerland – Switzerland Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis speaks on "Switzerland in Europe" - 1730 GMT.
TORONTO, Canada - Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will present the fall economic statement of Canada's biggest province. It will be the first budget update for the new Progressive Conservative Party government - 2100 GMT.
SINGAPORE - ASEAN leaders meet with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Singapore.
SINGAPORE - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong holds a news conference after ASEAN summit.
TASHKENT - Kyrgyzstan Economy Minister Oleg Pankratov visits Uzbekistan. TOKYO/ SINGAPORE/ SYDNEY/ PORT MORESBY - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Japan, Singapore, Australia, and Papua New Guinea (to Nov. 18).
SINGAPORE - 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit (Final Day). SINGAPORE - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will pay an official visit to Singapore at the invitation of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (to Nov. 16)
GENEVA – United Nations UNCTAD, Trade and Development Commission, Tenth session (to Nov. 16).
STOCKHOLM - Italian President Sergio Mattarella visits Sweden as Rome and Brussels are locked in a fight over the Italian budget (Final Day).
SINGAPORE - Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a series of bilateral meetings during his visit to Singapore (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 (to Nov. 16).
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 (to Nov. 16).
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- 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). PORT MORESBY - Indonesian President Joko Widodo addresses APEC summit.
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17GLOBAL - 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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21GLOBAL - World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day. MANILA - Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Philippines.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22MADRID - 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).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23COPENHAGEN - Hungary Foreign and Trade minister Peter Szijjarto visits Denmark.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24BAHRAIN - Bahraini Council of Representatives election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25GLOBAL - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
SWITZERLAND - Referendum election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26MUMBAI, 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
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27HANOI - North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho visits Vietnam (to Nov. 29)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29TEHRAN – 7th Anniversary of an attack on the British Embassy by dozens of Iranian students and protesters angry over Britain's unilateral sanctions.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30BUENOS AIRES - G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires (to Dec. 1).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DECEMBER 3BRUSSELS - Euro Zone finance ministers meeting - 1400 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6VIENNA - 175th (Ordinary) OPEC Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, DECEMBER 10MOSCOW - Sudan's Oil and Gas Minister Azhari Abdalla travels to Russia for a meeting with Russian ministers (to Dec. 12)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16TOGO – Referendum election.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19MADAGASCAR – President's election.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20TOGO - Togolese National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - President election.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Congolese National Assembly election.
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