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Geopolitical Calendar: Week of Nov. 25, 2013


Analysis


Editor's Note: The following is an internal Stratfor 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
Nov. 25: Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Pope Francis in Rome.
Nov. 26: Germany's Christian Democratic Union, Christian Social Union and Social Democratic Party hope to conclude coalition negotiations.
Nov. 26: Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta in Trieste.
Nov. 26-27: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit Romania to attend the summit between China and Central and Eastern European countries.
Nov. 27: The Italian Senate is expected to vote on the expulsion of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from the parliament.
Nov. 28-29: The Eastern Partnership Summit will take place in Vilnius. It brings together leaders from the European Union, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Nov. 29: French agricultural unions plan to stage protests against policies they regard as harmful to the sector.
Dec. 1: Italy's Five Star Movement plans to stage a rally in Genoa.

FORMER SOVIET UNION
Nov. 28-29: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit Uzbekistan.
Dec. 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to Armenia.

ASIA-PACIFIC
Nov. 25: The Philippines will likely get an aviation status upgrade from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to Category 1 status from Category 2, which will allow local airlines to open new routes and mount additional flights to the United States.
Nov. 25-29: Canadian and South Korean negotiators will meet in Seoul for the 14th round of free trade talks.
Nov. 25-Dec. 4: International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear inspectors will visit Japan to review government efforts to shut down the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Nov. 26-29: China, South Korea and Japan will hold the third round of trilateral free trade agreement negotiations.
Nov. 26-Dec. 2: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Australia.
Nov. 26-Dec. 3: Chen Deming, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and China's top negotiator with Taiwan, will visit Taiwan.
Dec. 1: The Economic Cooperation Agreement between New Zealand and the Separate Customs Territory of China's Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu (Chinese Taipei) will come into force.

SOUTH ASIA
Nov. 25: India's Madhya Pradesh State will hold its assembly poll.
Nov. 25: India and Australia will begin a weeklong meeting in New Delhi. It will be the third round of talks on civil nuclear cooperation.
Nov. 27: India's Cabinet will submit a bill on bifurcation to the state assembly in Andhra Pradesh.
Nov. 27-28: Pakistani and Sri Lankan officials will meet in Colombo to expand the scope of their existing free trade agreement.
Nov. 29: Sri Lanka's bidding round will end for 13 offshore blocks in the Cauvery and Mannar basins.
Nov. 28: Pakistani Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani will retire from his post.
Nov. 30-Dec. 4: Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will visit India.
Nov. 30: India's new aircraft carrier, the Vikramaditya, will leave Russia for Indian waters.
Dec. 1: India's Rajasthan State will hold its assembly poll.
Dec. 1: Bangladesh's opposition Jatiya Party will release its manifesto for parliamentary elections.
Dec. 1: Bangladesh's 77 percent minimum wage hike will come into effect.

MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
Nov. 25: U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will meet with Russian and U.S. officials.
Nov. 25: The Egyptian High Election Commission will hold a news conference to review preparations for holding a public referendum on the amended constitution.
Nov. 26: Turkish Parliament Speaker Jamil Jijak will visit Baghdad.
Nov. 26-27: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will visit Tehran.

AMERICAS
Unspecified date: The European Union will impose anti-dumping import levies on Argentine biodiesel.
Nov. 25: Bangladeshi Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed will lead a delegation to Washington to sign the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement.
Nov. 25-27: A mission from the Chilean Association of Manufacture and Services Exporters will tour Peru to seek business opportunities.
Nov. 26: Israeli President Shimon Peres will visit Mexico on a cultural mission and will also hold meetings with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Nov. 26-27: Costa Rica will host the seventh Caribbean, Latin America and China business summit.
Nov. 28: Peace talks between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and Colombian government representatives will resume.
Nov. 28: Ecuador will hold its 11th round of oil block auctions.

AFRICA
Unspecified date: According to a French government spokeswoman, a U.N. Security Council resolution could emerge in support of African peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic.
Unspecified date: Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer will lead an agricultural delegation to Nigeria to sign research accords in the sector.
Nov. 25-26: The Uganda Traders' Association of South Sudan will file an injunction in the East African Community to try to bar South Sudan from entering the organization.
Nov. 27: Glencore Xstrata will begin exporting zinc concentrates from Namibia's Luderitz port.
Nov. 28: Kenyan representatives will try to press for rule changes to the International Criminal Court in order to bar heads of state from being tried.

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