Africa Sept. 28- Oct.

1: United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Mohammad bin Rashid AlKaktoum is in Uganda to review bilateral relations including agro and oil sector development. Oct. 1: Nigerian Independence Day Oct. 1: Nigerian Niger Delta militant group MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) has threatened to bomb an undisclosed location in Abuja for Nigeria's Independence Day celebration in commemoration of their attacks last year in Eagle Square. Oct. 2: Guinea Independence Day Oct. 3: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir along with a high official delegation will visit Khartoum to discuss post-Comprehensive Peace Agreements with Sudanese Pres Omar Al-Bashir. Oct. 3-5: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will visit South Africa to meet with Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe. Oct. 4-6: Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville will host the International Conference on Hydrocarbon. Oct. 5: Kenya will host a Monetary Policy Committee in Nairobi to discuss the current trade problems concerning the shilling. Oct. 6: The South African Africa National Congress (ANC) party is expected to resume hearings over the membership of ANC Youth League President Julius Malema who is being charged with bringing the ANC party into disrepute. East Asia Early Next week: New Zealand Porirua city councillor Litea Ah Hoi will visit North Korea through the Korea-New Zealand Friendship. Oct. 1: South Korea's parliamentary speaker, Rep. Park Hee-tae, continues eight-day trip to Malaysia and Laos for discussions on economic cooperation. Oct. 1: Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, ends official visit to the Netherlands. Oct. 1: The Chinese National Day begins. Oct. 1: Indonesia will levy a maximum tax of 10 percent on refined, bleached and deodorized palm oil.

Oct. 3: The US Senate will move forward with a bill to punish China over its alleged currency manipulation. Oct. 3: Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere will visit Seoul to discuss boosting bilateral trade, and other regional and global issues. Oct. 3-4: Senior European and Asian officials will meet in Hanoi at the Green Growth Forum, ASEMs (Asia-Europe Meeting) initiative on developing a green, low-carbon economy. Oct. 4: An Indian envoy will visit Jakarta to discus rice imports on a scheduled visit to Indonesia. Oct. 5: Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will meet with Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein and will also pay a visit to Senior General Than Shwe in Naypyyidaw, Myanmar (Burma). Oct. 5-11: US Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt M. Campbell will travel to Tokyo Oct. 6, Seoul on Oct. 7, Hong Kong on Oct. 8-9, Brunei Darussalam on Oct. 9, Bangkok on Oct. 10, and Beijing on Oct. 11 Oct. 6: Ichiro Ozawa will face a separate trial beginning Oct. 6 over a case on political funding violations. Oct. 6-7: Japan foreign minister Koichiro Gemba will visit his South Koream counterpart, Kim Sung hwan and President Lee Myung Bak next week to discuss bilateral relations and North Korea. This week and next week: South Korea's parliamentary speaker Rep. Park Hee-tae will visit Malaysia, Loas, and Vietnam on an eight-day trip. Park will meet Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamed Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak. Park will hold talks with Laos President Choummaly Sayasone and Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong. Park will meet his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Sinh Hung on the way back. Next Week: The Malaysian government is expected to drop legislation on security reforms in the week, when parliament resumes its sitting. MESA Sept. 30 - Oct. 2: Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Jassem Al-Kharafi will lead a delegation to Iran for the Fifth International Conference on Palestinian Intifada. Sept: 30: Bahraini opposition groups al-Wefaq, al-Wa'ad, al-Amal, Watani, and al-

Ekha will hold a protest rally as a coalition called "Democracy is our Demand." Oct. 1: Omani Air Force Commander Yahya bin-Rashid Al-Jum'a will travel to Iran to visit Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Hasan Firuzabadi, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders. Oct. 1: The hearings of the assassination case of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer resumes. Oct. 2: The Egyptian political parties that compose the Democratic Coalition and the Egyptian Bloc will meet to discuss the Supreme Council of Armed Forces' response to their joint statement of demands regarding the parliamentary election regulations. Oct. 3: The relatives of former Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will be tired by an appeals court in Tunis, after being sentenced to jail terms in August for charges such as the illegal possessin of foreign cash to trafficking jewels. Oct. 3: Pakistan's National Security Council and representatives of major political parties will convene to review relations with the US following the accusations that Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence supported militants. Oct. 3-5: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit South Africa upon invitation by South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe. Oct. 3-5: Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony will travel to Russia to review the development of the Multirole Transport Aircraft and attend the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation. Oct. 4: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will visit India to discuss peace efforts and security in Afghanistan and cooperation between the neighbors. Oct. 4: The Court of Bahrain will give a verdict to Iraqi clergymen Sayed Hadi Ahmed al Madrasi charged with fostering dissent amon the people and encouraging them to take up arms. Oct. 4-23: Lebanese Patriarch Mar Bechara Peter Rai of Antioch and the Levant will visit various religious leaders and parishes in the United States. Oct. 4-7: Iran and Turkey will convene in Azerbaijan to facilitate commercial exchanges between the two states in the fields of transportation, transit, and hygiene. Oct. 5-6: Pakistan will host a two-day international conference on Afghanistan's

transition which will be attended by representatives and analysts from Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany, Iran, and the USA, where they will discuss reconciliation reconstruction, the role of the United States, security and the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Oct. 6: Turkish Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin and French Interior Minister Claude Gueant will sign an agreement on domestic security and cooperative mechanisms to combat terrorism in Ankara, Turkey. Oct. 7: US President Barack Obama will meet with Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi in Washington D.C. to discuss international and regional issues of mutual interest and Tunisia's democratic transition. Oct. 8: Judge Shahid Rafiq of Pakistan's Anti-Terrorist Court will resume proceedings in the Mumbai attack hearing. LATAM Undefined: The President of the Brazilian Senate, Jos Sarney, stated that since an accord was not reached between oil producing and non producing states, the presalt basin royalties distribution should be set out sometime next week. http://www.jornalfloripa.com.br/politica/index1.php?pg=verjornalfloripa&id=257 3 Oct. 3: Guatemalan judge, Carol Flores, will decide if a former army general Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes will stand trial for his alleged involvement in dozens of massacres of indigenous people during the Central American nations civil war. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/guatemalan-judge-delayshearing-to-rule-whether-ex-general-should-be-tried-on-genocidecharges/2011/09/21/gIQACpeJmK_story.html Oct. 3: The Foreign Ministers of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin, and Venezuela, Nicols Maduro, will meet in Cartagena, Colombia, to prepare for and discuss the next presidential meeting between Hugo Chavez and Juan Manuel Santos. http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/actualidad/cancilleres-preparan-encuentrosantos--chavez/20110923/nota/1551825.aspx Oct. 3 - 7: Brazil's President Dilma Roussef will undergo a week-long trip through Europe. On the 3rd to the 4th she will be in Brussels, Belgium. Then she will visit Bulgaria on the 5th and 6th. Finally she will pay an official state visit to Turkey on the 7th. http://www.redebrasilatual.com.br/temas/internacional/2011/09/dilma-temnovas-viagens-internacionais-e-abre-maior-festival-de-cultura-europeu Oct. 5: U.S. President Barack Obama will host President Porfirio Lobo of Honduras at the White House. http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edition/News-Briefs/Obama-to-meet-

Honduran-leader-October-5-_Sunday-September-25-2011 Oct. 5: Peru Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Jose Luis Silva starts travel to Argentina to resolve barriers on Peruvian Products http://www.andina.com.pe/Espanol/noticia-ministro-silva-viajara-a-argentina-ybrasil-para-resolver-trabas-a-productos-peruanos-379626.aspx Oct. 5: Lima, Peru, will host the 6th International Summit of Foreign Commerce. http://www.andina.com.pe/Espanol/noticia-vi-cumbre-internacional-comercioexterior-se-realizara-octubre-379529.aspx Oct. 7: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will meet with the President of the National Assembly, Soto Rojas, to confirm the creation of the new Polo Patritico Party. http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/actualidad/politica/registro-del-polopatriotico-arranca-en-octubre.aspx Oct. 8 - 9: Uruguay's President Jos Mujica will meet with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in an official visit to the city of Porto Alegre. EURASIA Oct. 1: Participants of the Shah Deniz gas transportation project (Nabucco, ITGI, TAP and White Stream) are scheduled to submit their proposals to the Shah Deniz consortium. Oct. 1: A Russian Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket is set to lift off to put another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit Oct. 1: Russia is set to reduce its export duty on most crude shipments by 7.4 percent. Oct. 1: Expected start of drilling by Noble Energy International, which holds concessions for Block 12 in Cypriot waters. Oct. 1: Russian budget bill for 2012-2014 should be submitted by the government to the State Duma by Oct. 1. Oct. 1: Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, wants to hold an emergency meeting concerning the ethnic tensions with the national security council. Oct. 3: Indian defense minister Arackaparambil Kurien Antony is scheduled to visit Moscow to discuss military cooperation and review progress of Multi-Role Transport Aircraft project with his Russian counterpart Anatoliy Eduardovich Serdyukov. Oct. 3: OAO Gazprom, the worlds biggest natural-gas producer, is scheduled to meet

with investors in Switzerland and may sell dollar- denominated euro commercial paper. Oct. 3: Israels President Shimon Peres is expected in the Ukraine to attend events for the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy. [dont know who he will meet. Only says that Yanukovich is expecting a delegation to visit the Ukraine ] Oct. 3: Meeting of the Eurogroup (Eurozone finance ministers, EU commissioners and Central Banks [thats what it says on CNBC. Even on the eurogroup site it doesnt say what they will be discussing]) in Luxembourg. Oct. 3: Visa agreement between France Switzerland and Kazakhstan will come into force. Oct. 4: Ministerial ECOFIN meeting in Luxembourg. [dont know the agenda] Oct. 4: Fifth European Union Brazil summit in Brussels, Belgium. Oct. 5: Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskait is scheduled to visit Kazakhstan. [no more information available] Oct. 5: The International Monetary Fund plans to send a new mission to Belarus to hold consultations with authorities about current economic crisis. Oct. 5: Finnish Budget Proposal for 2012 and revised spending limits for 2012- 2015 to be presented. Oct. 5: The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to visit the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. She is scheduled to meet with the Commission President Jose Manuel Barosso and the College of Commissioners. [dont know what they will discuss] Oct. 5: ADEDY and the General Confederation of Greek Labor, two Greek public sector unions, are scheduled to hold a 24 hour strike. Oct. 5: Brazils President, Dilma Rousseff, is expected to pay a two-day visit to Gabrovo, where her father came from, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Oct. 6: French president Nicolas Sarkozy is scheduled to visit the South Caucasus region with 2 day visit in which he is scheduled to visit Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia to discuss cooperation prospects. Oct. 6: In Chisinau, Moldova, European Energy Community ministers could approve the adoption of the EUs third energy package.

Oct. 6: French Interior Minister Claude Gueant is scheduled to visit Ankara, Turkey, to sign an agreement on domestic security cooperation with his Turkish counterpart Idris Naim Sahin. Oct. 6: Jean Claude Trichets is scheduled to hold his last press meeting as president of the ECB. Oct. 6: Greek public sector union, ADEDY, is scheduled to hold a 24 hours strike. Oct. 6: The Norwegian government is scheduled to present the budget to parliament. Oct. 7: The Romanian parliament will host the three-day long 57th annual parliamentary assembly of the NATO. Oct. 7: Presidents of Czech Republic (Vaclav Klaus), Hungary (Pal Schmitt), Poland (Bronisaw Komorowski) and Slovakia (Ivan Gaparovi) known as Visegrad countries are set to hold a summit meeting in Budapest and Visegrad (N Hungary) to mark the 20th anniversary of the group.