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Geopolitical Calendar: Week of July 21, 2014


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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

July 21-22: EU ministers for ministers responsible for trade, industry, research and innovation, economy and space will hold informal meetings in the Competitiveness Council in Italy.
July 22: The EU Foreign Affairs Council will be held in Brussels.
July 22: A Central European summit on security policy will be held in Poland. The presidents of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic countries and the Visegrad Group will attend the meeting.
July 22-24: European Parliament committee meetings will be held in Brussels.
July 23: The EU General Affairs Council will be held in Brussels.
July 24: Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu will meet to continue the negotiations on the reunification of the island.
July 25: Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini will visit Albania to show support for the Balkan countries. During her trip, Mogherini is expected to announce her backing of Albania's effort to join the European Union.

Former Soviet Union

Unspecified date: Bilateral talks of the EU and Russian energy ministers has been moved up a week at the request of the European Commission, according to the Russian Ministry of Energy. According to Russian sources the meeting will be held in Moscow.

Asia-Pacific

July 21: South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yul will visit China as part of Seoul's efforts to develop a peace initiative for Northeast Asia.
July 22: Indonesia's official presidential election results will be released.
July 25: This date is the deadline for 114 energy and industrial firms covered by the Tianjin market to hand over permits for their 2013 carbon emissions.
July 25: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will start his tour of Latin America where he will attend the first Japan-CARICOM summit meeting. He will visit Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Chile and Brazil.
July 30: Elections will be held for South Korea's parliament.
South Asia

July 21: U.N. Undersecretary-General and head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous will pay a two-day visit to Nepal.
July 21: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel to London to attend the Girl Summit on July 22.
July 22: Afghanistan's Election Commission will release final numbers from presidential elections.
July 24: India's Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will meet with Pakistani Commerce and Industry Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan to restart talks on trade liberalization.
July 25: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will pay a three-day official visit to Nepal during which they are likely to set up a working group to resolve border issues.
Middle East/North Africa

July 21-22: The Chinese Middle East special envoy will visit Egypt during his tour of the region. The tour, which also makes stops in Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Saudi Arabia, aims to support the Egyptian and Arab initiative to stop Israeli military action in Gaza.
July 22: Delegates from Iran, Mali and Sudan will meet in Tehran to discuss the ongoing crisis in the
Gaza Strip.
July 23: There will be a Lebanese parliament session to elect a new president. The session will begin at noon and will be the ninth attempt to convene in less than four months.
Americas

Unspecified date: Venezuela's government will present new electricity tariff prices.
July 21: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the Venezuelan National Assembly.
July 22: U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa will hear arguments related to the banks and payment agents caught up in the Argentine debt litigation with holdout funders.
July 22: Twelve Argentine unions affiliated with the anti-government General Confederation of Labor and Workers' Central Union organizations will march against planned construction by Polo Audiovisual in Isla Demarchi.
July 22-23: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will audit the budgets and projects of all government ministries.
July 23: Colombia will hold its first oil auction of 2014.
July 23: Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez is set to face trial for inciting violence.
July 23-25: Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes will visit Japan.
July 24: Peruvian and Ecuadorian trade ministers will meet in Lima to discuss Ecuador's trade barriers on Peruvian goods.
July 26-28: The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela will hold its third congress to discuss and evaluate its political platform.
Africa

July 19-21: Italian Prime Minster Matteo Renzi will visit Mozambique, the Republic of the Congo and Angola to strengthen economic ties.
July 22: The African Union Social Affairs Department will present their report on the socio-economic and security challenges of drug trafficking and related organized crime in West and Central Africa.
July 24: The African Union Peace and Security Council will hold a meeting on counterterrorism programs in Africa.



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