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Geopolitical Calendar: Week of June 2, 2014



EUROPE
June 2: The European Commission will present its 2014 country-specific recommendations in Brussels.
June 2: Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will meet with Turkish Cypriot Leader Dervis Eroglu.
June 2: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Chairman-in-Office, Swiss President and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter will hold official meetings in Azerbaijan after his arrival June 1.
June 2: An International Monetary Fund mission will arrive in Bucharest for the third review of a stand-by agreement finalized in September 2013.
June 4: The European Commission will present the details of its 2014 Convergence Report assessing the readiness of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden to adopt the euro.
June 4: The EU Permanent Representatives Committees, Coreper I and Coreper II, will meet in Brussels.
June 4: U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Poland on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the country's first democratic elections after World War II.
June 4-5: The summit of the G-7 group will be held in Brussels with the participation of U.S. President Barack Obama and leaders from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and Germany.
June 5: The European Central Bank Governing Council will meet in Frankfurt, Germany. The executive board is expected to officially agree on actions to take against low inflation in the eurozone.
June 5-6: EU ministers of justice, home affairs, transport and telecommunications will meet in Luxembourg.
June 6: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet French President Francois Hollande after participating in D-Day commemoration ceremonies in France's Normandy region, which Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko and U.S. President Barack Obama will also attend.
June 8: Kosovo will hold snap elections.

FORMER SOVIET UNION
June 2-3: New Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko could be sworn into office on either of these days.
June 4-6: Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev will attend the 10th round of a China-Russia strategic security consultation.
June 4: An Azerbaijani-Russian business forum will be held in Baku during a Russian delegation visit.
June 5-6: Azerbaijani Parliamentary Speaker Ogtay Asadov will visit Moscow to discuss Azerbaijani-Russian inter-parliamentary relations.

ASIA-PACIFIC
June 5: Former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan may visit Japan to attend a meeting of the bilateral friendship committee.
June 5: Beijing will host the sixth ministerial meeting of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum.
June 6: China will hold the first auction of 200,000 carbon permits in Shenzhen under a new emissions trading scheme.
June 8: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will arrive in India to meet with new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Unspecified date: Indonesia will begin construction on its long-delayed $1.6-billion Sarulla geothermal power plant.

SOUTH ASIA
June 2: India will officially divide the new state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh, and two separate state governments will start functioning from Hyderabad, which will remain the common capital for 10 years.
June 3: The Reserve Bank of India will meet to discuss ongoing monetary and fiscal policy.
June 3: Bangladesh's National Parliament House, or the Jatiya Sangsad, will begin its budget session.
June 4: NATO will discuss the details of its continued troop presence in Afghanistan at a defense ministers meeting in Brussels.
June 4-12: In its inaugural session, India's newly elected Lok Sabha will swear in new lawmakers from June 4-5 and elect a speaker June 6. President Pranab Mukherjee will address the joint session of both houses June 9, and lawmakers will debate the president's address from June 10-11.
June 6: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit China.
June 6-10: Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala will attend a South Asia Expo in Kunming, China, where Nepal is the country of honor.
June 7: Afghanistan will hold a presidential election runoff.
June 8: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit India for meetings with new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
June 1-2: Egypt's Presidential Elections Commission will announce the official winner of the recent presidential election.
June 3: Syria will hold presidential elections.
June 3: Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev will attend a meeting of the Supreme Kyrgyz-Turkish Intergovernmental Council in Turkey and meet with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

AMERICAS
June 2: The Colombian government will resume peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Havana.
June 2: Italian airline Alitalia will suspend operations in Venezuela.
June 3: Argentine governors from 10 oil-producing provinces will meet with Planning Minister Julio de Vido.
June 4: The presidents of Spanish energy company Repsol and Italian energy company Eni will visit Venezuela.
June 5: Sao Paulo's subway workers will go on strike.
June 6-17: Mexico's Senate Energy Committee will hold energy reform talks.
June 6: The International Monetary Fund will evaluate Argentina's inflation and growth statistics.
Unspecified date: Iraqi government officials will visit Brazil to assess the sanitary conditions of Brazilian livestock ahead of a planned end to the Iraqi embargo on beef imports that has been in place since 2012.

AFRICA
June 2: Africa's annual Digital Marketing Summit will conclude in Ghana.
June 5: The South Sudanese government will resume peace talks with rebels, focusing on the formation of all-inclusive interim government.
June 6: African Union permanent representatives will meet in the organization's headquarters to draft the agenda for the July African Union Heads of States Summit.
Unspecified date: South Africa's new immigration policy will come into effect.



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