Analysis
EUROPE
Oct. 21: The European Parliament holds its plenary session in Strasbourg until Oct. 24.
Oct. 21: EU foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg.
Oct. 22: The European Commission will present its priorities for 2014 when Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso presents the Work Program for 2014 to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Oct. 23: In Hungary, the Civil Union Forum is expected to hold a pro-government demonstration.
Oct. 24-25: EU leaders will meet in Brussels to discuss different aspects of the European crisis, among other things.
Oct. 24: Greenland's parliament is expected to vote on whether radioactive material can be extracted on the island.
Oct. 25: The Czech Republic will hold parliamentary elections.
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Oct. 21: The 14th India-Russia annual summit will be held in Moscow. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will arrive in the Russian capital to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on bilateral, regional and international issues.
Oct. 21: Russia's consumer rights watchdog organization Rospotrebnadzor expects to start inspecting Roshen's Ukrainian confectionery enterprises.
Oct. 21: Baku will host the Eurasian Cement Forum organized by the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation jointly with the Russian organization BusinessCem.
Oct. 21: The EU Council will discuss Ukraine's readiness to sign an association agreement with the European Union.
Oct. 22: The Azerbaijan-Slovenia business forum will be held in Baku during the visit of a Slovenian delegation to Azerbaijan.
Oct. 22: High-level groups headed by Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Yuriy Boiko and Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov will meet in Moscow. They will talk about trade cooperation after the signing of the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.
Oct. 22: Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev will pay an official visit to China as a guest of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. During Medvedev's stay in Beijing, he and Li are expected to co-chair the 18th regular meeting between the Chinese and Russian heads of government.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Oct. 21: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has called an urgent meeting with high government officials to discuss Thailand's response to the International Court of Justice's upcoming ruling on Nov. 11 on the Preah Vihear temple conflict.
Oct. 21: Vietnam's National Assembly will hold its 40-day biannual meeting.
Oct. 21-22: Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will visit the Philippines for the second meeting of the Philippines-India Joint Commission on Bilateral Cooperation. Khurshid will meet with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario.
Oct. 21-23: Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev will visit China and meet with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Oct. 21-24: Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will visit South Korea, where he will meet with President Park Geun Hye. They will discuss a variety of issues including security on the Korean Peninsula.
Oct. 22-25: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit China and meet with Premier Li Keqiang.
Oct. 23-25: The opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party plans to stage a mass demonstration to coincide with the anniversary of the 1991 signing of the Paris Peace Agreement. The demonstrators demand the establishment of an independent investigation into the July 28 national election.
Oct. 26: Citizens of Myanmar and Vietnam will be able to travel between the two countries for a period of less than 14 days without a visa.
Unspecified date: There is the potential for a deal to allow Chinese investment in the United Kingdom's 14 billion pound ($23 billion) nuclear power plant at the Hinckley C site, in Somerset.
SOUTH ASIA
Oct. 20-22: Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni will visit China to hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other Chinese leaders, following a meeting in South Korea.
Oct. 21-26: Indian army commanders will hold a brainstorming session on Pakistani and Chinese border issues.
Oct. 22: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will begin a three-day visit to China to discuss border issues.
Oct. 23: The Indian central government will sit down with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha for tripartite talks for a separate Gorkhaland state.
Oct. 23: Nepal's election commission will publish lists of nominated candidates for the upcoming Constituent Assembly elections.
Oct. 23: The Bangladeshi Shipping Agents' Association has threatened to stop cargo ships entering or leaving Chittagong Port from this day over a dispute with the Chittagong Customs House.
Oct. 24: A 17-member delegation from China will arrive in Nepal to revise a bilateral air service agreement and discuss tourism.
Oct. 25: Bangladesh's ruling Awami League and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party will hold rallies in Dhaka 90 days ahead of the end of the current government.
Oct. 26: Pakistan's major political parties will meet in Islamabad for a national conference on a future economic roadmap.
Oct. 27: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will open a new expressway from Katunayake to Colombo, built with Chinese loans.
MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
Oct. 22: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will brief members of parliament on the latest developments in the country. Zarif will answer questions at a sitting of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
Oct. 22: The Lebanese parliament will meet to elect two secretaries, three commissioners and members of parliamentary committees.
Oct. 23: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss Iran and the ongoing peace talks.
Oct. 23: Tunisians are expected to protest after the National Salvation Front, a loose coalition of opposition parties, called for a massive demonstration to demand the appointment of a competent government.
Oct. 24-25: During the two-day EU summit, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will discuss the crisis of migrants from Middle Eastern countries attempting to flee to EU countries.
Oct. 25: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will return home after visits to Italy, Germany, Lithuania and Belgium.
Oct. 25: Jordanian King Abdullah II is expected to issue a royal decree to restructure the Jordanian Senate, the upper house of parliament, under the presidency of current Senate President Taher al-Masri.
AMERICAS
Oct. 21: Brazil will hold its first round of pre-salt oil auctioning for the Libra field.
Oct. 22-26: A Chinese naval fleet delegation will visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oct. 23: The latest round of peace talks between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of Colombia will begin in Havana, Cuba.
Oct. 23: Argentine private and public workers in various sectors will strike and hold assemblies in the Entre Rios province for higher salaries.
Oct. 24: Colombian student union MANE will hold nationwide protests to call for higher funding for universities.
Oct. 24-25: Colombia's Democratic Center, the party of former President Alvaro Uribe, will hold a national convention to choose presidential candidates.
Oct. 27: A Suriname parliamentary delegation will travel to Guyana.
AFRICA
Oct. 21-25: African trade ministers will meet in Addis Ababa to discuss inter-Africa trade issues and the adoption of global trade pacts.
Oct. 22: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will visit South Sudan to discuss ways to end the territorial dispute over the Abyei region with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir.
Oct. 22: Officials from Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt are expected to meet in Khartoum to discuss the dispute over Ethiopia's hydroelectric dam project on the Nile.
Oct. 23-24: The Southern African Development Community and New Partnership for Africa Development will hold public-private partnership dialogue in Johannesburg on infrastructure development in the region.
Oct. 25: The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation will award the fourth round of oil and gas licensing for the exploration of seven offshore blocks.
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