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JULY 2012
BERLIN/PARIS/ BRUSSELS – Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras expected to visit Germany, France and Belgium.
JERUSALEM – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visits Israel and meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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TUESDAY, JULY 10
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) Meeting.
LONDON – British Prime Minister David Cameron meets French President Francois Hollande.
** IOWA – U.S. President Barack Obamaattends a campaign event.
JAKARTA – German Chancellor Angela Merkel to meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
** TOKYO – Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with Japanese Emperor Akihito.
GENEVA – WTO Dispute Settlement BodyMeeting (0800).
** KARLSRUHE, Germany – Germany’s top court holds public hearing on legality of German ratification of ESM and fiscal pact (0800).
PHNOM PENH – Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers meet counterpartsfrom Japan, China and South Korea.
** BERLIN – Jewish religious leaders will hold an international meeting to discuss how to respond to a German court ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys, which also sparked protests from Muslims andChristians in Germany.
** JAKARTA – IMF chief Christine Lagarde meets with Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
** BEIJING – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius meets Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and vice Premier Li Keqiang. LJUBLJANA – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Slovenian President Danilo Turk holds bilateral meeting, a news conference to follow.
** MOSCOW – Representatives of Syrian National Council to hold news conference.
CAIRO – German ForeignMinister Guido Westerwelle to meet with Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi.
HONG KONG – Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang to brief at Legislative Council Financial Affairs Panel meeting on latest economic situation (0030).
** KHARKIV,Ukraine – (DELAYED TO JULY 23) The trial against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko continues in Kharkiv court.
LONDON – Barclays (BARC.L) chairman Marcus Agius will appear before parliament’s Treasury Select Committee to answer questions about the Libor rate-fixing scandal (0900).
JERUSALEM – Verdict in corruption trial of Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in three cases of alleged bid-rigging, bribery and fraud.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The International CriminalCourt rules on sentence for Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. Lubanga was found guilty in March for using child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a five-year jungle war that killed some 60,000 people around the turn of the century(0730).
BERLIN – Transparency International to release its latest study ‘Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World’s Largest Companies.’ (0300).
BARCELONA, Spain – IAAF World Junior Championships (to July 15).
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 11
** PARIS – French President Francois Hollande meets Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan (1500).
HOUSTON, TX – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressesthe annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), the nation’s oldest civil rights organisation.
WASHINGTON – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives vote on whether to repeal theAffordable Health Care Act of 2012, the centrepiece of U.S. President Barack Obama’s domestic policy which was upheld last month in the Supreme Court as constitutional.
** VIENTIANE – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to visit Laos. RIYADH – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi visits Saudi Arabia meets King Abdullah.
** BRUSSELS – European Parliament President Martin Schulz to meet Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
** MOSCOW – Syria’s delegation of 10 members led by thegroup’s head, Abdelbasset Sida, will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
** SOFIA – German deputy Foreign Minister Michael Link visits Bulgaria.
** BRUSSELS – European Council President Van Rompuy to meet Bulgarian Prime Minister BoikoBorisov.
** LISBON – Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho gives speech in parliament on state of the nation followed by debate.
ATHENS – Finnish Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade Alexander Stubb to visit Greece and meetwith Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos and Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras.
BUENOS AIRES – The governor of Argentina’s Buenos Aires province expected to send a bill to the legislature seeking “superpowers” to handle a government cash crunch.
** BUNAGANA, Uganda – DR. Congo rebels M23 are to hold a media briefing on the Uganda border, where they are expected to introduce their political wing for negotiations with the government.
VIENNA – OPEC topublish Monthly Oil Market Report.
GLOBAL – United Nations World Population Day.
MUMBAI – 6th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai’s commuter rail network.
** SREBRENICA, Bosnia – Thousands of people gather in the eastern Bosniantown of Srebrenica to mark the 17th anniversary of the 1995 massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces and bury the remains of 500 newly identified victims exhumed from dozens of mass graves.
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THURSDAY, JULY 12
** PARIS – French President Francois Hollande meets Lebanese President Michel Suleiman (1800).
PHNOM PENH – Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers sign protocol to the Treaty on theSoutheast Asia Nuclear Weapon-free zone.
YALTA, Ukraine – Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich.
** ATHENS – EU Commissioner on Regional Policy Johannes Hahn to visit Greece (to July 13).
LAGOS- African Women Economic Summit (AWES) (to July 14).
BANGKOK – IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda and Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul to give speech at an opening panel session on “Stabilityand Inclusive Growth” at Thailand ADB-IMF Conference “Towards a More Stable Global Economic System” (0315).
BRUSSELS – Finnish Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade Alexander Stubb visits Belgium, to participate in bilateral negotiations with the Cypriot Presidency on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020.1`
PARIS – OECD publishes Economic Survey of Turkey.
VILNIUS – Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite holds annual news conference.
KIEV – FormerUkrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko appeals her 2011 conviction for abuse of office in a 2009 gas deal she signed with Russia at Ukraine’s High Specialised Court.
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SATURDAY, JULY 14
CAIRO – U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Egypt “to express the United States’ support for Egypt’s democratic transition and economic development” (to July 15).
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan – Launch of Soyuz TMA-05M, which will carry threeExpedition 32/33 crew members to the International Space Station.
PARIS – Bastille Day.
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MONDAY, JULY 16
** JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Israel to discuss the Middle East peace effort amid tentative signs that Israeli and Palestinian leaders are open to resuming some form of dialogue after months ofstalemate (to July 17).
WASHINGTON – IMF releases updated World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Report.
PARIS – French lower house of parliament to discuss the revised 2012 budget bill (to July 18).
BRUSSELS – EUAgriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting (to July 17).
KHABAROVSK, Russia – APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Environment.
HO CHI MINH, Vietnam – The Third APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) meeting (to July 19).
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TUESDAY, JULY 17
** ANKARA – Turkey’s Main opposition Republican People’s Party holds convention (to July 18).
** BUDAPEST – IMF/EU delegation expected to arrive to Budapest to start talks on a financing backstop (to July25).
** TOKYO – Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan to visit Japan (to July 21) with business delegation.
GLOBAL – World Day for International Justice, which commemorates the adoption of the founding treaty of the International CriminalCourt, the Rome Statute, on July 17, 1998.
** GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Pre-trial hearing in death penalty case against Guantanamo prisoner Abd al Rahim al Nashiri accused of spearheading the boat-bomb attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 U.S.sailors off the coast of Yemen in 2000 (to July 20).
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18
WASHINGTON – The Financial Services Committee to receive the semiannual “Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (1400).
GLOBAL – Nelson Mandela International Day.
JOHANNESBURG – 94th birthday of South African leader Nelson Mandela.
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THURSDAY, JULY 19
ROYAL LYTHAM & ST. ANNES,England – GOLF – The Open Championship 2012 (British Open) (to July 22).
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FRIDAY, JULY 20
BRUSSELS – (TBC) Eurogroup Meeting.
CYPRUS – Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. YOSHINOBU LAUNCH COMPLEX, Japan – Launch of The H-II Transfer Vehicle “Kounotori3” spacecraft which delivers cargo to the International Space Station.
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SATURDAY, JULY 21
** SINGAPORE – Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan visits Singapore (to July 24) with business delegation.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 1st anniversary of conclusion of NASA’s space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135.
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SUNDAY, JULY 22
MALI – Parliamentary election (SECOND ROUND).
OSLO – First Anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people killed.
WASHINGTON – XIX International AidsConference (to July 27).
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MONDAY, JULY 23
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council Meeting.
NICOSIA – EU Informal meeting of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (to July 24).
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TUESDAY, JULY 24
BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs council Meeting.
PARIS – French upper house of parliament to debate revised 2012 budget bill (to July 26).
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25
GENEVA – WTO General Council meeting (toJuly 26).
BAYREUTH, Germany – Annual Bayreuth festival (to Aug. 28).
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THURSDAY, JULY 26
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) Budget Meeting.
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FRIDAY, JULY 27
LONDON – Olympic Games (to Aug. 12).
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SATURDAY, JULY 28
NEW ORLEANS, LA – National Medical Association Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly (to Aug. 1).
GLOBAL – WorldHepatitis Day.
GLOBAL – 98th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.
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MONDAY, JULY 30
BOGOTA – The first round of negotiations for a free trade agreement between Colombia and Costa Rica to be heldand will be headed by Trade Ministers Sergio Diaz-Granados of Colombia and Anabel Gonzalez of Costa Rica.
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TUESDAY, JULY 31
SOFIA – Deadline expires for Bulgaria’s energy ministry to pick a winner for adeepwater gas exploration works at a field off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan – Launch of ISS Progress 48, A Progress resupply spacecraft will deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
AUGUST 2012
SOMALIA – Presidential Elections.
LINDAU, Germany – (TBC) 5th Meeting of the Winners of the Sverige Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Economics Laureates and young economists from various countries will meet inLindau (Germany) to exchange ideas, discuss the state of their discipline and build international networks.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1
** ANKARA – Turkey’s Supreme Military Council meets (to Aug. 4).
LONDON,UK – Olympic Games (to Aug. 12).
GLOBAL – World Breastfeeding Week (to Aug. 7).
WARSAW – Poland marks 67th anniversary of its war-time Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation.
CHINA – 85th founding anniversary of the People’sLiberation Army.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
CHICAGO – Lollapalooza festival (to Aug. 5).
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 5
EDINBURGH, Scotland – Edinburgh Fringe Festival (to August 29).
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MONDAY, AUGUST 6
HIROSHIMA, Japan – Hiroshima Commemorations 67th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
SILIVRI, Turkey – Hearing scheduled in the trial of 365 defendants accused of involvement in thealleged Sledgehammer plot to overthrow the government. However, the case could be transferred to a new court before then.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9
EDINBURGH, Scotland – Edinburgh International Festival 2012 (to Sept. 2). Link http://www.eif.co.uk/-
SOUTH CAROLINA – GOLF – 94th PGA Championship (to Aug. 12).
BRISTOL, England – Bristol International Balloon Fiesta (to Aug. 12).
VIENNA – OPEC to publish Monthly Oil Market Report.
NAGASAKI,Japan – NAGASAKI Commemorations 67th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
GLOBAL – International Day of the World’s Indigenous People.
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – 94th PGA Championships (to Aug. 12).
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SATURDAY,AUGUST 11
EDINBURGH, Scotland – Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug. 27). Link: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/-
COWES, Isle of Wight – SAILING – Cowes Week (to Aug. 18).
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 PUERTO RICO – Voters would be asked whether they want to change Puerto Rico’s political status. If the majority votes “yes,” a second ballot on Nov. 6 would ask them to choose among three nonterritorial options — U.S. statehood, independence or sovereign free association.
GLOBAL – International Youth Day.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 13
THE HAGUE – International Criminal Court (ICC) trial of former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo on charges of crime against humanity during a four-month civil war that followed his refusal to stand down after losing a 2010 presidential election.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14
FLORIDA – Presidential Primary election.
PAKISTAN – 65thanniversary of Pakistan Independence from British rule.
LEBANON – Hezbollah marks sixth anniversary of its “divine victory” — the end of its war with Israel.
PLOVDIV, Bulgaria – 2012 World Rowing Senior and Junior Championships (to Aug. 19).
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15
JAPAN – 67th anniversary of country’s surrenderin World War Two.
INDIA – 65th anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule.
LIECHTENSTEIN – 206th Anniversary of Independence.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
TRALEE, Ireland – Rose of Tralee InternationalFestival (to Aug. 21).
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18
KABUL – Afghanistan celebrates Independence Day.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 19
GLOBAL – World Humanitarian Day.
MOSCOW -21st anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23
BALTIC WAY – 23rd anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chainof people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24
POLAND – Poland marks the 23rd anniversary of the creation of the first post-communist government in 1989.
UKRAINE – 21st Anniversary of Independence.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 25
** PHNOM PENH – 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting and Related Meetings, 14th ASEAN-Mekong Basin Development Cooperation (AMBDC) Ministerial Meeting and 4th Mekong-Japan Economic Ministers’ Meeting (to Sept. 1).
URUGUAY – Uruguay’s Independence Day.
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. – Launch of Atlas V-401, Radiation BeltStorm Probes (RBSP) Mission to understand the Sun’s influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 26
LONDON – (TBC)London International Animation Festival (to Sept. 4).
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MONDAY, AUGUST 27
TAMP/FLORIDA – Republican convention (to Aug. 30).
MELBOURNE – TENNIS – U.S. Open 2012 (to Sept. 9).
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29
NICOSIA – EU Informal Meeting of Ministers and State Secretaries for European Affairs (GAC) (to Aug. 30).
TEHRAN – Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.
LONDON, UK – Summer Paralympic Games (to Sept. 9).
VENICE, Italy – 69th Venice Film Festival (to Sept. 8).
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31
ANGOLA – Parliamentary election.
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SEPTEMBER (UNDATED)
WASHINGTON – Egyptian PresidentMohamed Mursi visits United States.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia – APEC summit.
NORTH OSSETIA, Russia – 8th Anniversary of the terrorist attack at Beslan school.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
NARA, Japan – 12th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-12), organised by the American Nuclear Society and The Atomic Energy Society of Japan, co-sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (toSept. 7). Link: http://www.icrs12.org/
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
SVALBARD, Norway – Meeting of the Nordic Council of Ministers for Co-operation.
AKUREYRI, Iceland – 10th Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (to Sept. 7).
MUNICH, Germany – 40th Anniversary of the attack on Israeli Olympic team by Palestinian gunmen which killed 11 Israelis.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
JEJU, South Korea – IUCNWorld Conservation Congress 2012 (to Sept. 15).
INDIA/BANGALADESH – 1st anniversary of a pact to end a 40-year border demarcation dispute between India and Bangladesh.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
NICOSIA -EU Informal meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs (to Sept. 8).
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
LONDON – (TBC) World Congress 2012 “The Human Factor in Risk” (to Sep. 9).
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
NICOSIA – EU Informal meeting of Ministers for Agriculture and Fisheries (to Sept. 11).
TOKYO – 2012 September Grand Sumo Tournament (to Sept. 23).
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
VIENNA – IAEA Board of Governors Meeting.
STRASBOURG, France – European Parliament Plenary Session (to Sep. 13).
GLOBAL – World Suicide Prevention Day.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
TIANJIN, China – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2012 (to Sept. 13).
USA – 11th anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
VIENNA – OPEC to publish Monthly Oil Market Report.
BERLIN – ILA 2012 Berlin Air Show (toSep. 16). Link: http://www.ila-berlin.de/ila2012/home/index_e.cfm
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
NETHERLANDS – Parliamentary Election.
LONDON – World Nuclear Association 37th Annual Symposium (to Sept. 14).
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
MEXICO CITY – G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors.
NEW YORK – New York Fashion Week – Spring/Summer 2012 (to Sept. 19).
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
NICOSIA – EU Informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) Meeting.
BEIRUT – Pope Benedict visits Lebanon (to Sept. 16).
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
NICOSIA -Eurogroup Meeting.
GLOBAL – International day of Democracy.
GUATEMALA – 191st Anniversary of Independence.
EL SALVADOR – 191st Anniversary of Independence.
COSTA RICA – 191st Anniversary of Independence.
HONDURAS – 191stAnniversary of Independence.
NICARAGUA – 191st Anniversary of Independence.
LOS ANGELES – 64th Primetime Emmy Award Ceremony.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
VIENNA – IAEA General Conference (to Sep. 21).
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
UNITED NATIONS – 67th United Nations General Assembly starts.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
BRUSSELS – EU meeting of Ministers for Justice andHome Affairs (to July 24).
VIENNA – 31st Council of Europe Conference of Ministers of Justice (to Sept. 21).
MILAN – Milan Fashion Week – Women’s Spring / Summer 2013 Fashion Week (to Sept. 25).
NAPLES, Italy – Roman Catholics in Naples crowd the city’s cathedral to witness the annual miracle of Saint Gennaro, who died in the 4th century but whose dried blood is said to turn liquid on his feast day.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
GLOBAL -International Peace Day.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
MUNICH – Oktoberfest Beer Festival 2012 (to Oct. 7).
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
BELARUS – Parliamentary election.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs council Meeting.
BRUSSELS – EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting (to Sept. 25).
VIENNA – IAEA Board of Governors Meeting.
DOHA – 25thUniversal Postal Union Congress (UPU) (to Oct. 15).
BISSAU – Guinea-Bissau marks 39th anniversary of independence from Portugal.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
UNITED NATIONS – United Nations General Assembly debate (to Oct. 5).
MEDINAH,IL – GOLF – 2012 Ryder Cup (to Sept. 30).
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
GLOBAL – World Heart Day.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
GLOBAL – World Tourism Day.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 GLOBAL – World Rabies Day.
SEOUL – South Korea marks the 62nd anniversary of recovering Seoul from North Korea during the Korean War.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
GLOBAL – World Maritime Day.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
BERLIN – 39th BMW Berlin Marathon.
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