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Geopolitical Calendar: Week of June 23, 2014



EUROPE
June 23: Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu and Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades will meet to discuss the reunification of Cyprus.
June 23: The EU Foreign Affairs Council will convene in Brussels.
June 24: The EU General Affairs Council will meet in Brussels.
June 24: Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Vienna at the invitation of Austrian President Heinz Fischer.
June 24-25: NATO foreign ministers will gather at NATO headquarters in Brussels for a meeting chaired by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
June 25: Coreper I will meet in Brussels.
June 25: An Iranian parliamentary delegation composed of lawmakers representing religious minorities will visit Germany to participate in an annual religious conference.
June 25: Justice and home affairs ministers from the United States and European Union will gather in Athens.
June 25-26: The plenary session of the EU Committee of the Regions will take place in Brussels.
June 27: The European Council will meet in Brussels to nominate the president of the European Commission and discuss EU energy dependence on Russia as well as EU migration policies.
June 27: Moldova and Georgia will sign the economic portion of the EU association agreement in Brussels. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko could also travel to Brussels to sign a similar agreement. This will follow a European Council working dinner June 26 in Ypres, Belgium, to discuss new senior positions.

FORMER SOVIET UNION
June 22-23: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will travel to Armenia.
June 23: EU foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg, where they will discuss a ban on Crimean imports and a peace plan to be presented by new Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
June 23-24: Qabala, Azerbaijan, will host the fifth Azerbaijani-Russian Interregional Forum.
June 25: A Central Bank of Russia working group will select the national payment system platform.

ASIA-PACIFIC
Unspecified date: The United States and the Philippines will hold the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training naval exercise off the Philippine island of Luzon near the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
Unspecified date: Japan and North Korea will hold talks following a North Korean offer to investigate Cold War-era kidnappings of Japanese nationals.
June 24: Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet in Japan and discuss territorial disputes with China.
June 25: Representatives from Australia, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iran, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom will travel to the United Kingdom to attend an International Committee of the Red Cross conference on North Korea.
June 26: The U.S. Navy-sponsored Rim of the Pacific Exercise will commence with the participation of Japan and China, ending Aug. 1.
June 27: Myanmar will initiate direct flights from Mandalay to India's northeastern city of Imphal.

SOUTH ASIA
June 23: Sri Lanka will inaugurate a new fuel-bunkering terminal at the Chinese-funded Hambantota port.
June 26-27: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Bangladesh.
June 28: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee could travel to Beijing to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Panchsheel Treaty between India and China.
June 28-29: Investors from Bangladesh will participate in the first meeting of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
June 24-29: Israeli President Shimon Peres will travel to the United States and meet with President Barack Obama on June 25.
June 25: Libya will hold parliamentary elections.
June 26: Kuwait will hold parliamentary by-elections to replace five lawmakers who recently resigned.
June 28: The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins.

AMERICAS
Unspecified date: Argentina will seek to negotiate a deal with holdout creditors.
June 21-27: The Paraguayan ministers of finance, foreign affairs and industry as well as the secretary-general will travel to Japan to negotiate several loans.
June 23-26: Brazil will host the United Kingdom's Prince Harry before he travels to Chile to meet with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
June 24: Venezuelan student activists will demonstrate in Caracas.
June 26: The Venezuelan Federation of University Professor Associations will hold a national assembly in San Cristobal to organize protests in support of the student movement.

AFRICA
June 23-26: The United Nations will hold an environmental summit for delegates from more than 100 countries at United Nations Environment Program headquarters in Nairobi.
June 23-28: A Chinese delegation led by Vice President Li Yuanchao will visit Tanzania to discuss investment and cooperation.
June 24: Africa's largest food and beverage industry trade exposition will conclude in Johannesburg.
June 24-25: Lusaka, Zambia, will host the fourth annual Zambia International Mining and Energy Conference and Exhibition.


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