Geopolitical Calendar: Week of April 7, 2014 EUROPE April 7: The European Parliament will hold committee meetings in Brussels. April 7-11: The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will present a report on the mitigation and adaptation of climate change. April 9: Meetings of the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper I and Coreper II) for the European Union will be held in Brussels. April 10: The European Parliament will hold committee meetings in Brussels. April 10-11: European Competition Day -- proposed by the Hellenic Competition Commission -- will be held at the Zappeion Megaron in Athens. Competition and state aid law and practice are expected to be discussed. April 11: Chrystalla Georghadji, currently Cyprus auditor general, will begin her mandate as the countrys central bank governor following Panicos Demetriades’ resignation in March. April 11: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to visit Greece to support Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras attempts to implement much-maligned reforms. April 12: Coreper I meetings will be held in Brussels. April 13: Macedonia will hold its presidential election and the second round of parliamentary elections. FORMER SOVIET UNION April 7: Russia will ban imports of various prefabricated meat products from Poland and Lithuania. April 7: The deadline for Ukraines Naftogaz to pay Russias Gazprom for March supplies of natural gas will hit. April 9: The next round of Russian-Chinese consultations on deliveries of Russian natural gas to China will be held in Beijing. April 9: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will visit Iran. April 10: Gazprom could begin exports from its Prirazlomnoye offshore oil platform in the Pechora Sea. April 13: The Russian opposition has filed an application with Moscow authorities to conduct another protest on this date. The protest will be in defense of free speech, and as many as 50,000 people are expected to participate. April 13: Ukraine is expected to reduce a special duty on car imports. ASIA-PACIFIC April 5-7: U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet with Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera before leaving Japan for China and Mongolia. April 7: Senior Japanese, U.S. and South Korea officials will meet in Washington to discuss North Korean nuclear and missile issues. April 7: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will visit Tokyo before heading to South Korea and China. April 9: North Koreas 13th Supreme Peoples Assembly will convene its inaugural session. SOUTH ASIA April 7: India will hold the first round of voting for its lower house in the countrys northeast. Polling in the rest of the country will begin April 10. The election cycle will be completed by May 12, with results released May 16. April 8: The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh will announce the results of local elections. April 8-10: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit China for the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2014. April 9: The U.S. and Sri Lankan military-led Multinational Planning Augmentation Team Tempest Express 24 Workshop in Colombo will come to a close. April 9: The commerce ministries of Bangladesh and Bhutan will meet in Thimphu, Bhutan, to discuss a transit agreement and an institutional mechanism to streamline financial transactions. April 10: Responses are due for the first round of applications for consultants to assist with the World Bank-funded rehabilitation of Afghanistans 100-megawatt Naghu hydroelectric project on the Kabul River. April 12: India will send a high-level Indian Space Research Organization delegation to the United States to meet with NASA and discuss joint satellite projects. The team will remain in the United States until April 24. MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA April 7-12: More than 100 Indian companies will participate in the 42nd Tripoli International Fair in Libya, which began April 2. April 7-9: Iran and the P-5+1 group will meet in Vienna for nuclear talks. April 9: The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. April 10: The Lebanese Energy Ministry will hold an auction for the licensing of offshore natural gas exploration. AMERICAS April 7: Angola and Argentina will hold an economic symposium in Buenos Aires. April 7: Argentina will re-launch a program that establishes the list of price-controlled goods. April 7-8. The Union of South American Nations commission of foreign ministers will return to Venezuela. April 10: The Colombian government and farmers will meet in hopes of avoiding a strike. April 10: Argentinas largest anti-government labor group, the CGT, will hold a general strike to protest economic conditions, debt to unions and insecurity. April 10: Venezuelan students, unions and community movements will march against the political and economic crisis in the country. AFRICA April 6-7: The second edition of the Somalia Investment Summit will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The event is designed to attract investment to the war-torn African country. April 7: Construction on a 1,050-kilometer (650-mile) railway link between Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast is expected to start in Niamey, Niger. The rail line has an estimated cost of $1.3 billion. April 7: South Africas Electoral Commission will open applications for special votes for the general election. Special votes will be cast May 5-6 instead of May 7, when the rest of the countrys eligible voters will cast their ballots. April 7: Rwanda will commemorate its 20th Rwanda Genocide Memorial Day. April 7-11: African transport ministers will gather in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to discuss African transport infrastructure. April 8-10: The fifth Ghana oil and natural gas conference and exhibition will open in the Accra International Conference Center. April 13: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will wrap up a two-week tour that took him to Belgium, Rwanda, Turkey and the United Kingdom. His last stop is in London, where meetings on trade are scheduled.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:49:48 +0000
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