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Geopolitical Calendar: Week of Jan. 27, 2014


Analysis


EUROPE
Jan. 27: Eurozone finance ministers will meet in Brussels one day before all EU finance ministers meet.
Jan. 27: Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and his Serbian counterpart, Ivica Dacic, are expected to meet in Brussels for another round of talks to normalize bilateral relations.
Jan. 28: The EU-Russia summit will take place in Brussels.
Jan. 30: The EU-U.S. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership conference will take place in Brussels.
Jan. 31: The Munich Security Conference will start in Munich and continue through Feb. 2.
Feb. 2: Moldova's autonomous region of Gagauzia will hold a consultative referendum on the effects of Moldova's foreign policy on Gagauzia's independence.

FORMER SOVIET UNION
Jan. 28: Political directors of the Group of Eight (G-8) will meet in Moscow.
Jan. 28: The regular meeting of Azerbaijani-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation is expected to take place in Baku.
Jan. 28: Ukraine will hold an extraordinary session of parliament to discuss peaceful settlement of the ongoing domestic conflict.
Jan. 28: A delegation from the European Parliament will visit Ukraine Jan. 28-30.
Jan. 28: The EU-Russia summit will take place in Brussels.
Feb. 1: Russian communication watchdog Roskomnadzor will start blocking websites deemed to incite extremism.

ASIA-PACIFIC
Jan. 25-unspecified date: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit India beginning Jan. 25 as part of a trip to the United States, Britain, Germany, Belgium and France.
Jan. 23-30: Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou will visit Africa and Central America to consolidate the island's diplomatic ties.
Jan. 26-29: South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kang Chang-hee will make a three-day official visit to Tehran.
Jan. 31: The Chinese Lunar New Year will begin.
Jan. 30-Feb. 3: The Vietnamese Lunar New Year holidays will take place.
Feb. 2: Thailand's caretaker government plans to hold general elections.

SOUTH ASIA
Jan. 27: The Pakistan-U.S. Strategic Dialogue review will be held in Washington, with Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistani Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz attending.
Jan. 28: Pakistan will host an International Monetary Fund delegation, which will review the economic situation from October to December before releasing another tranche of funds.
Jan. 28: The Reserve Bank of India will release the results of its quarterly policy review.
Jan. 29: Bangladesh's recently elected parliament will begin its first session.

MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
Jan. 25-Feb. 11: An Islamist alliance backing deposed President Mohammed Morsi called for 18 days of protests starting Jan. 25, the day that marks three years since the beginning of the revolt that ousted his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. Protests will continue through Feb. 11, the date Mubarak stepped down in early 2011.
Jan. 28: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Jan. 28 for a two-day visit. Erdogan will meet and confer with high-ranking Iranian officials.
Jan. 28: The Lebanese parliament's plenary session, postponed from Dec. 18 due to the lack of a quorum, will begin.
Jan. 28: The third trial of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will begin. The trial will be regarding the charges of organizing prison breaks with the help of foreign militants.
Jan. 29: The inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency will travel to Tehran to visit Gachin mine.
Jan. 31-Feb. 2: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani will attend in 50th Munich Security Conference in Germany.

AMERICAS
Jan. 25-29: The Latin American and Caribbean Community Summit will take place in Havana, Cuba.
Jan. 27: The Hague tribunal will announce its decision over the maritime dispute between Peru and Chile.
Jan. 27: Venezuelan oil workers will resume negotiations.
Jan. 27: The governor of Argentina's Entre Rios province will meet with farmers to discuss provincial tax reform that no longer exempts producers from income/production tax.
Jan. 28-30: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will meet with his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro.
Jan 31: Colombian truck drivers will go on strike by this date if the government does not meet their demands.
Feb. 1: Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the consortium responsible for the Panama Canal expansion, will reportedly continue dialog and keep negotiations open with the Panama Canal authorities and insurer Zurich through Feb. 1, the date on which Panama is set resolve the canal dispute.
Feb. 2: El Salvador will hold presidential elections.
Feb. 2: Costa Rica will hold presidential elections.

AFRICA
Unspecified date: The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote on sending a European Union stabilization mission to the Central African Republic.
Jan. 21-31: The African Union summit will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The summit will discuss major crises in Africa, including the security situations in South Sudan and the Central Africa Republic.
Jan. 26: A Zimbabwean delegation of industrialists will visit Brussels to look for business opportunities.
Jan. 27: Companies must submit bids for Ghana's national project of doubling its overall port capacity by this date.
Jan. 30: Companies must submit bids for Sao Tome and Principe's auction of offshore exploration Blocks 1 and 6 by this date.

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