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Geopolitical Calendar: Week of Sept. 30, 2013


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The document listing significant meetings and events planned for the next week. Stratfor analysts use this to stay informed of the activities and travel of world leaders and to guide their areas of focus for the week.
EUROPE
Oct. 1: Cyprus celebrates its independence day.

Oct. 1: In Hungary, the Financial Supervisory Authority will be merged into the Hungarian Central Bank.

Oct. 1-7: An International Monetary Fund delegation will visit Serbia to assess the government's policies for 2014.

Oct. 2: The Governing Council of the European Central Bank will meet in Paris.

Oct. 3: Officials from Moldova, Transdniestria, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Union, Russia, the United States and Ukraine are expected to meet in Brussels for a further round of negotiations over the conflict regarding Transdniestria's status.
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Oct. 1: The next meeting of the EU-Azerbaijan Cooperation Committee is expected to be held in Baku to discuss prospects for development.

Oct. 1: The lower house of Tajikistan's Parliament will consider ratification of an agreement regarding the deployment of Russia's 201st military base on its territory.

Oct. 2: The Kyrgyz Parliament is set to discuss issues surrounding the Kumtor gold mine.
Oct. 3: An election for the heads of rural precincts is expected to take place in Kyrgyzstan.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sept. 30: A joint secretariat to oversee administrative operations and prevent a work stoppage at the Kaesong inter-Korean factory complex in North Korea will start work.
Sept. 30-Oct. 1: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will visit Jakarta along with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison to meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and explain his immigration policies.
Oct. 1: Start of China's weeklong National Day holiday.
Oct. 1-9: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will make an official state visit to Singapore and then to Indonesia.
Oct. 2-3: Indonesia's central bank will sign a currency swap deal with China, designed to protect the rupiah from value fluctuations.
Oct. 2-3: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Jakarta, Indonesia, where he will address a special session of Indonesia's Parliament.
Oct. 4-6: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Kuala Lumpur and Sabah, Malaysia.
Oct. 7-8: The summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will be held in Bali, Indonesia.
SOUTH ASIA
Sept. 29-30: India and China will hold meetings for the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Border Affairs, discussing Line of Actual Control incursions and a Border Defense Cooperation Agreement.
Sept. 29-Oct. 6: Nepalese army head Gen. Gaurav Shamsher JB Rana is set to visit to India to discuss military links and the purchase of military hardware.
Sept. 29-Oct. 7: The Chinese government will close the Sino-Pakistani border for 10 days ahead of National Day of China celebrations.
Oct. 1: Pakistan's power tariff will be raised 30 percent for consumers of over 200 units.
Oct. 2: Indian and Bangladeshi border security forces will hold a first ever retreat ceremony on the Petrapole-Benapole border in the wake of biannual talks.
Oct. 5: Bangladesh will begin importing commercial power from India for the first time.
Oct. 6: The conclusion of India-Nepal joint military training, Exercise Surya Kiran-V, will be held at Pithoragarh.
MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
Sept. 30: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will unveil a democratization package designed to strengthen democracy and keep the Kurdistan Workers' Party peace process on track.
Sept. 30: The Tunisian Tamarod movement plans to launch a "Day of Rage" in collaboration with the General Union of Students of Tunis and the Union of Unemployed Graduates.
Sept. 30-Oct. 4: The UNHCR's Executive Committee Meeting begins in Geneva to discuss greater cooperation between international organizations and the countries hosting Syrian refugees.
Oct. 1: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the U.N. General Assembly.
Oct. 1: Subsidy payments to energy-intensive companies will be reduced by 50 percent in Tunisia.
Oct. 1: Egypt's Religious Endowments Ministry plans to begin banning weekly prayers at small mosques.
AMERICAS
Sept. 30: The U.S. Supreme Court will convene to consider Argentina's appeal on its defaulted debt rulings.
Sept. 30: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House to consult with U.S. President Obama on Iran's nuclear program, Syria and the Palestinian peace talks.
Sept. 30: The Peruvian Union of Informal Miners and Small Mineral Producers has called for an indefinite national strike.
Sept. 30: Paraguayan Presidnet Horacio Cartes will travel to Brasilia, Brazil, to hold talks with his counterpart, Dilma Rousseff.
Sept. 30-Oct. 1: South Korea and the United States will hold the eighth round of negotiations over the review of a civilian nuclear cooperation accord in Washington.
Oct. 1: Farmers in Colombia's Cordoba province will go on an indefinite strike.
Oct. 1: The Brazilian government will allow import tariff renewals on 100 products to expire.
Oct. 3: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A workers are considering a 24-hour strike on the company's 60th anniversary.
Oct. 3: The Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia will resume peace talks in Havana, Cuba.
AFRICA
Sept. 30: South African coal producers and unions will meet again to try to hammer out wage agreements and avert possible strike action.
Sept. 30: The third annual Africa-India Ministerial Conference will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the South African Department of Trade and Industry, African Union Committee and Indian government officials attending.
Sept. 30: Cameroon is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections alongside the elections for local councils.
Sept. 30: The trial of Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto will resume in The Hague International Criminal Court for alleged crimes committed during post-election violence in 2008.
Sept. 30: The U.S.-based Chevron Corp. will start receiving bids from prospective buyers for three oil blocks in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
Oct. 1-2: The 2013 Mineral Wealth Conference, organized by the Ugandan Chamber of Mines & Petroleum in partnership with the Ugandan government, will be held in Kampala, Uganda.
Oct. 1-5: The fourth edition of the Asmara Mining Conference is scheduled to be held in Asmara, Eritrea

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