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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events----------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, OCTOBER 8
- BUDAPEST - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to pay an official visit to Hungary (to Oct. 9).
- BUDAPEST - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to meet Hungarian President Janos Ader - 1100 GMT.
- BUDAPEST - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold a joint news conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban - 1430 GMT.
- DUSHANBE – Indian President Ramnath Kovind to visit Tajikistan (to Oct. 9).
- LONDON - Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo, Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba, South Africa Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan and various other policy makers and CEOs speak at the FT Africa Summit 2018.
- BEIJING - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing - 0600 GMT.
- BEIJING - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi in Beijing - 0730 GMT.
- BEIJING - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing - 0800 GMT.
- TRIER, Germany - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to attend a discussion with citizens on Europe's future in the western German city of Trier - 1300 GMT.
- PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Chile President Sebastian Pinera in Paris - 1600 GMT.
- INGOLSTADT, Germany - German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and Bavarian Prime Minister Soeder to speak at campaign event in Ingolstadt ahead of Bavarian state elections - 1700 GMT.
- TAIWAN - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Paraguay President Mario Abdo Benitez will review the honour guard at a welcoming ceremony.
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with leaders of the Mekong countries, including Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. BEIJING - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to China.
MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Italian counterpart Enzo Moavero Milanesi in Moscow.
BEIJING - Angolan President Joao Lourenco visits China and meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (to Oct. 10)
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- SINGAPORE - Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos will visit Singapore.
- RIGA - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex visit Latvia.
- TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe chairs a summit with leaders of the five Mekong countries, including Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha Cambodia's Hun Sen, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith.
- MADRID - Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to meet Chile President Sebastian Pinera - 0800 GMT.
- BUDAPEST - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to speak at a business event - 0900 GMT.
- MADRID - Chilean President Pinera meets Spain King Felipe at Zarzuela Palace - 1100 GMT.
- LUZERN, Switzerland - Poland President Andrzej Duda and and his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, will take part in the ceremony commemorating Konstanty Rokicki – Polish consul, who was saving Jews during the Second World War - 1200 GMT.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak in Moscow. ZURICH - Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks on The Future of Europe - Foundations of Unity of the States of Europe - 1630 GMT.
PARIS - Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit France (to Oct. 10).
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- SYDNEY - Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne and Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne hold news conference with their Japanese counterparts, Taro Kono and Takeshi Iwaya in Sydney.
- BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Chilean President Sebastian Pinera who is on a tour of Europe which also takes him to France, Belgium, Spain and the Vatican - 1000 GMT.
- THE HAGUE, Netherlands - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Netherlands for meetings with her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte - 1700 GMT.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The Turkey-Africa economic and business forum is hosted by the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board in Istanbul - 0600 GMT BEIJING - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Angolan President Joao Lourenco at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
ATHENS - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Greece (to Oct. 12). GLOBAL - World Post Day.
GLOBAL - World Mental Health Day.
GLOBAL - World Day Against the Death Penalty.
FIJI – 48th Anniversary of Independence.
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- MAINZ, Germany - Dutch King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima visit the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
- ATHENS - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Greece, where he is due to hold talks with Greece President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
- MOGILEV, Belarus - Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the Forum of Regions in Belarus, meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Dushanbe/ Amsterdam/ City of Brussels - Chinese premier Li Keqiang to visit Tajikistan, Netherlands and Belgium to attend SCO meeting, ASEM summit (to Oct. 19). BALI, Indonesia - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde addresses a news conference ahead of the IMF, World Bank annual meeting on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.
GLOBAL - World Sight Day.
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- BALI, Indonesia - G20 members give a news conference on the sidelines of the IMF, World Bank annual meeting on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.
BALI NUSA DUA, Indonesia - 2018 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (to Oct. 14)
BALI - 16th anniversary of Bali bombings.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13BALI, Indonesia - The International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) holds a news conference on the sidelines of the IMF, World Bank annual meeting on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.
GLOBAL - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction.
SAN JOSE, Chile – 8th anniversary rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed Andean mine.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, OCTOBER 15LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Senior Finance Officials' Meeting (SFOM)
GLOBAL - United Nation's World Hand-Washing day.
GLOBAL - International Day of Rural Women.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Finance and Central Banks Deputies Meeting.
GLOBAL - World Food Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17MOSCOW - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will visit Russia and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Finance Ministers Meeting. GLOBAL - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18BRUSSELS - Euro Summit TASHKENT – Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Uzbekistan (to Oct. 19). BRUSSELS- Asia-Europe Meeting (to Oct. 19). JERUSALEM – 7th anniversary of release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years of being held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. BHUTAN - Bhutanese National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20TRIPOLI – 7th anniversary of capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. AFGHANISTAN - Afghan House of People election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23LIBYA – 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.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26IRELAND – President election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28GEORGIA – President election.
MALI - Malian National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30BERLIN - Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials in Berlin.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31MOSCOW - Moldovan President Igor Dodon visits Russia and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (to Nov. 1).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4NEW CALEDONIA – Referendum election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6GUAM - 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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- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18GUINEA-BISSAU - Bissau-Guinean People's National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25MALI - Malian National Assembly election.
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