News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from October 23

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 
    
    • ACCRA - Sierra Leonean president Julius Maada Bio to visit Ghana. (Final Day).
    • PARIS - Greece Defence Minister Panos Kammeos is paying an official visit to France. (to Oct. 26)
    • TASHKENT - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will visit Uzbekistan & meet President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
    • TOKYO - Qatar energy minister Mohammed al-Sada attends the annual Japan-Qatar joint economic committee in Tokyo - 0800 GMT.
    • MONTREAL, Canada - Incoming Foreign Minister of Mexico, Mr. Marcelo Ebrard, speaks in Montreal. - 1230 GMT
    • OTTAWA - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland meets with Brazil Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes Ferreira. - 1330 GMT
    • BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez give statements after their meeting - 1445 GMT
    • WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with UN Secretary Antonio Guterres at the State Department. - 2030 GMT

    TUNIS, Tunisia - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian starts two-day visit to Tunisia (Final Day). BEIJING - Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva will pay an official visit to China (Final Day).

    JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH/ CAIRO/ ABU DHABI - Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan will pay a visit to Israel, Palestine, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (to Oct. 30)

    JAKARTA - Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir to visit Indonesia (Final Day).

    VIENNA - Albanian President in Vienna (to Oct. 24). ZURICH - The economy ministers of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein hold their annual meeting in Zurich. A panel discussion will deal with questions related to digital transformation, global economy and EU-Swiss relations - 0900 GMT. BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Poland President Andrzej Duda at the Chancellery in Berlin - 1410 GMT. BERLIN - Polish President Andrzej Duda visits Germany to participate 2018 German-Polish forum at Berlin - 1300 GMT.

    OUAGADOUGOU/ YAMOUSSOUKRO/ ABUJA - Governor General of Canada, Julie Payette will visit Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, and Nigeria (to Oct. 30).

    LIBYA – 7th anniversary of declaration of Libya's Liberation.

    VAN, Turkey – 7th anniversary of earthquake that killed more than 600 people and injured more than 4,000 others.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 
    
    • MADRID - Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to meet German President Steinmeier in Madrid - 1400 GMT
    • HANOI - Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail will visit Vietnam (to Oct. 26).

    MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

    BANGKOK - Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad visits Thailand and is scheduled to meeting his Thai counterpart Prayuth Chan-ocha (to Oct. 25).

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    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 
    

    OTTAWA - The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, will visit Canada. ANKARA - German Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier visits Turkey (to Oct. 26).

    OTTAWA - Canada will host a two-day meeting of trade ministers in Ottawa to discuss how to reform the troubled World Trade Organization as it faces a serious crisis (to Oct. 26).

    BEIJING - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit China at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (to Oct. 27).

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    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 
    
    • BRATISLAVA - French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Slovak capitol Bratislava to meet with Slovak President Andrej Kiska and Slovak PM Pellegrini - 1045 GMT
    • PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the 1918 creation of the Czechoslovak independent state in Prague - 1230 GMT
    • PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech President Milos Zeman meets his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at Prague Castle - 1700 GMT

    IRELAND – Referendum election.

    IRELAND – President election.

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    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 
    

    GABON - Gabonese National Assembly election.

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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 
    

    BRAZIL – President election.

    TOKYO - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a two-day visit to Japan (to Oct. 29).

    GEORGIA – President election.

    MALI - Malian National Assembly election.

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    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 
    

    NEW DELHI – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will pay an official visit to India.

    BERLIN - Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials in Berlin.

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    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 
    

    MOSCOW - Moldovan President Igor Dodon visits Russia and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (to Nov. 1).

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    NEW CALEDONIA – Referendum election.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 
    

    BRUSSELS - Eurogroup meeting.

    BRUSSELS - Euro Zone Finance Ministers meet to discuss deeper integration of the region, including a euro zone budget, new powers for bailout fund and setting up a deposit guarantee scheme - 1400 GMT.

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

    GUAM - Non-Voting Delegate To Us House Of Representatives election.

    United States - US House of Representatives election.

    Guam - Legislature of Guam election.

    United States - US Senate election.

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    WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 
    

    MADAGASCAR – President election.

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 
    

    PARIS - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit France.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting

    BERLIN - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz speaks to the foreign press association on a range of issues - 1300 GMT.

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    FIJI - Fijian Parliament election.

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    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 
    

    TASHKENT - Kyrgyzstan Economy Minister Oleg Pankratov visits Uzbekistan.

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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 
    

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

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 
    

    GUINEA-BISSAU - Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly election.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting

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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting

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    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 
    

    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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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 
    

    MALI - Malian National Assembly election.

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    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting

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