News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from October 26

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    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 
    

    • WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Donald President Trump delivers remarks at the "2018 Young Black Leadership Summit," in the East Room of the White House. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson also participates - 1530 GMT. KUALA LUMPUR - Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir on a two-day trip to Kuala Lumpur, where he will meet with his Malaysian counterpart.(Final Day).

    PARIS - Greece Defence Minister Panos Kammeos is paying an official visit to France. (to Oct. 26)

    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)

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

    HANOI - Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail will visit Vietnam (Final Day).

    ANKARA - German Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier visits Turkey (Final Day).

    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 (Final Day).

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

    MOSCOW - Kyrgyzstan Foreign Affairs Minister Chingiz Aidarbekov will pay his first working visit to Russia. 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 
    
    • PRAGUE - French President Eammanuel Macron visits Prague. MANAMA, Bahrain - US Defense Secretary James Mattis is scheduled to deliver a major speech on the second day of the security conference held in Bahrain - 0530 GMT. GABON - Gabonese National Assembly election.
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    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 
    
    • DOHA/ KUWAIT CITY - Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will make her first visit to Qatar and Kuwait (to Oct. 31).
    • ANKARA - Pakistani President Arif Alvi visits Turkey and he will also meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit (to Oct. 30). PRAGUE - U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis visits Prague on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of Czechoslovakia, to hold news conference with Prime Minister Andrej Babis - 1500 GMT. 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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    MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 
    
    • DAVAO, Philippines - Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin holds talks with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on bilateral relations focusing on infrastructure development, trade and investments.
    • TOKYO - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam will visit Japan. Teresa Cheng, the city's secretary for justice, Edward Yau, the secretary for commerce and economic development and Nicholas Yang, the secretary for innovation and technology, will join parts of the visit. (to Nov. 2). GRAZ, Austria - EU Transport Ministers hold an informal meeting to discuss European Commission proposal to scrap twice yearly clock changes, which would oblige countries opt for permanent summer or winter time - 0900 GMT. - - - - - - - - -

    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

    • OSLO - British Prime Minister Theresa May will give a speech in Oslo at the opening of a session of the Nordic Council - 1315 GMT. 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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    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 
    
    • HANOI - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will pay an official visit to Vietnam (to Nov. 4).
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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 
    

    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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    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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    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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    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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