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investigating the Clearstream smear scandal in September. Villepin is suspected of using French intelligence services to smear President Nicolas Sarkozy before the recent presidential election.
TOKYO - Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan expected to visit Japan.
TOKYO - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is expected to visit Japan.
PARIS - Former French President Jacques Chirac will meet judges investigating a graft case of fake jobs allegedly involving members of his party during his time as Paris mayor before September 15.
RUSSIA - President Vladimir Putin due to kick off election campaign for the country's lower house of parliament, known as the Duma. Parliamentary elections due in Dec. 2.
YANGON - U.N. special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, expected to visit Myanmar.
ISRAEL - A U.N. survey of the disputed Shebaa Farms on the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria is expected to be completed by September, paving the way to talks on the fate of the Israeli-controlled area.
ISLAMABAD - (TENTATIVE) U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is expected to visit Pakistan.
NEW YORK - Founder of Senegal-based African aid group Tostan, Molly Melching, will travel to New York to receive the world's largest humanitarian prize, the Hilton Prize, at a ceremony due to be attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
PASEDENA, Calif., - "The Great Picture" -- dubbed "the world's largest photograph" -- begins its premier showing at the Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel in Pasadena, California (to Sept. 29). A camera created from an airplane hanger measuring 45 x 160 x 80 ft produced a photograph on canvas measuring 31ft 7in x 111ft.
SYDNEY - Two Chinese naval ships are due to visit Sydney to hold a joint rescue exercise with Australia and New Zealand to boost military cooperation.
SATURDAY, SEPT 1
PARIS - Japan's Nobua Tanaka due to succeed Claude Mandil of France as the next IEA Executive Director.
ASMARA - Somali dissidents expected to hold conference about "liberating" Somalia from Ethiopia.
CHINA - New regulations set by China's State Administration of Religious Affairs on barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation for himself or recognising a "living Buddha", will come into force.
CAIRO - Court resumes hearing on the legality of Muslim converts re-converting to their original religion.
LISBON - EU Environment Council meeting (final day).
CAIRO - International Youth Forum on the theme "The Power of Youth for Peace" (to Sept. 3), sponsored by Suzanne Mubarak, President Hosni Mubarak's wife.
BOGNOR, England - International Bognor Birdman 2007, a flight competition for human powered flying machines (to Sept. 2). LINK: http://www.birdman.org.uk/
SUNDAY, SEPT 2
CAIRO - Court case requesting release for opposition politician Ayman Nour on health grounds goes to the Supreme administrative court.
MONDAY, SEPT 3
STRASBOURG - EU parliament plenary session (to Sept. 6).
GENEVA - Next round of WTO Doha round of talks are expected to begin.
PANAMA CANAL - Panama will kick off the expansion of its famous canal, marking the beginning of an ambitious project to double the capacity of the waterway. The 93-year-old Panama canal, which handles 5 percent of world trade, is a 50-mile waterway between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans.
TUESDAY, SEPT 4
SYDNEY - U.S. President George W. Bush will arrive in Australia to hold a series of bilateral meetings with Prime Minister John Howard and other leaders before departing at the weekend as the three-day APEC summit was still underway.
LOWELL, Mass., - Primary election to replace outgoing Republican Marty Meehan.
NEW YORK - Hearings of six cases filed by Sept. 11 aircraft crash victims against airlines and their security contractors expected to resume.
CAIRO - Mary Robinson, former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner and Irish President, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, youngest winner of Orange Prize for Fiction, Angelique Kidjo, Benin-born Grammy nominated singer and songwriter, Margot Wallstrom, Vice President of European Commission, Herta Daeubler Gmelin, former German Justice Minister, Asha Hagi Elmi Amin, Somalian minister leading a fight against female genital mutilation, and Musimbi Kanyoro, Secretary-General of YWCA and Kenyan presidential award winner, hold news conference after their trip to Chad (0900).
NEW YORK - Jury selection in the trial of Texas oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt, David Chalmers of Bayoil Supply and Trading Inc. and Ludmil Dionissiev, a Bulgarian oil trader, accused of paying secret kickbacks to Iraq and corrupting the $67 billion oil-for-food program, due to begin.
CANBERRA - First anniversary of the death of Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin.
LONDON - 16th annual Mercury Music Prize. LINK: www.nationwidemercurys.com/
HOUSTON - Trial expected of former British bankers, known as the "Natwest Three," accused of conspiring with rogue Enron executives in 2000 to defraud National Westminister Bank of $19 million, dividing $7 million themselves. U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein set alternate possible trial dates for Feb. 5 and Sept. 4.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 5
SYDNEY - 19th APEC Ministerial Meeting (to Sept. 7). ** CAIRO - Arab League to convene at the ministerial level. Fact-finding commission on Hamas takeover of Gaza to meet on the margins. ** NICOSIA - Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat will meet to try to revive a stalled peace process on the ethnically divided island.
LONDON - World Nuclear Association (WNA) annual symposium (to Sept. 6).
OULU, Finland - 12th Air Guitar World Championships (to Sept. 7).
LONDON - NATO Secrectary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer speaks at Lloyd's of London. ** WARSAW - Poland's parliament will vote to shorten its term and call a snap election at its sitting on Sept. 5-7.
THURSDAY, SEPT 6
BRUSSELS - The Anti-Dumping Committee is due to consider European Commission's proposal to eliminate anti-dumping duties on Chinese energy-saving light bulbs.
TORONTO - Toronto International Film Festival 2007 (to Sept. 16). [20070821 151911 GMT]
FRIDAY, SEPT 7
VIENNA - Pope Benedict visits Austria (to Sept. 10). Pope will visit Vienna as well as the Alpine town of Mariazell, home of a revered 12th century carving of the Virgin Mary, and Heiligenkreuz.
MOROCCO - Parliamentary Elections.
VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal - EU Foreign Ministers Meeting (to Sept. 8).
BUCHAREST - The Supreme Court meets to discuss a landmark anti-corruption trial against former prime minister Adrian Nastase that the Constitutional Court dismissed earlier this year on unconstitutional procedures. The Supreme Court must decide whether it closes the case or sents it back to prosecutors.
NEW YORK - Sentencing of Randi Collotta and Christopher Collotta, a former Morgan Stanley lawyer and her attorney husband, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud in what U.S. authorities have called the most pervasive insider trading ring since the 1980s that netted more than $15 million in illegal profits.
St. Denis, France - RUGBY - Rugby World Cup starts - France v Argentina (Final to be held on Oct. 20).
GENEVA - International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Global Strategic Review 2007 (To Sept. 9).
SATURDAY, SEPT 8
SYDNEY - 15th APEC Economic Leaders' meeting (to Sept. 9).
VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal - EU Foreign Ministers Meeting continues (final day).
LOS ANGELES - 59th annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
VENICE - 64th Venice Film Festival ends.
ISLAMABAD - Deadline set by Pakistan's Supreme Court to the election commission to register all eligible voters for the election after complaints that millions of citizens were missing from draft electoral lists.
SUNDAY, SEPT 9
HELSINKI - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to visit Finland and meet counterpart Tarja Halonen, while on a tour to the Nordic countries (to Sept. 11).
BEIJING - 31st anniversary of death of Chairman Mao.
FLORIDA - Former military leader Manuel Noriega, who was Panama's ruler from 1983 to 1989, expected to be released from a Florida prison. Noriega was convicted in a Miami federal court in 1992 of trafficking, racketeering and conspiracy.
NAIROBI - Around 2,000 lawyers are expected to converge in Kenya for the Commonwealth Law Conference (to Sept. 13).
GUATEMALA - Presidential elections.
NEW YORK - "Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Festival," a benefit concert to help family farms.
LAS VEGAS - The 24th annual MTV Video Music Awards. Link: http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2007/
MONDAY, SEPT 10
VIENNA - IAEA Board of Governors Meeting (to Sept. 14).
BRUSSELS - European Union resumes talks on closer ties with Serbia.
HONG KONG - Kenneth John Freeman, one of America's most wanted fugitives, appears in court for further extradition proceedings. Freeman stands accused of raping his daughter and posting the video on the internet.
NEW DELHI - Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev visits India (to Sept. 15).
ABUJA - Nigerian Federal High Court resumes trial of former Abia state governor Orji Uzor Kalu, charged with corruption and money-laundering.
TUESDAY, SEPT 11
UNITED STATES - Sixth anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon.
BALTIMORE, U.S., - Mayoral primary elections.
ETHIOPIA - Ethiopians mark the start of a new millennium. The country has retained its own orthodox calendar that is eight year behind that of the west.
VIENNA - 145th OPEC Ordinary Meeting. Link: http://www.opec.org/home/Multimedia/liveStreaming.aspx
JOHANNESBURG - SPORT - CRICKET - Inaugural ICC Twenty20 World Cup starts (to Sept. 24). Link: http://www.icc-cricket.com/ ** WASHINGTON - Top U.S. general in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, are expected to testify to Congress around Sept. 11 or 12 about the report on progress in Iraq.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 12
NEW YORK - Sentencing of Florida-based doctor Rafiq Sabir, convicted of supporting al Qaeda by swearing allegiance to the group and attempting to help treat wounded fighters. ** OCEANSIDE, Calif., - Arraignment of former U.S. Marine squad leader Jose Luis Nazario charged with manslaughter of two Iraqi prisoners.
THURSDAY, SEPT 13
FRANKFURT - Frankfurt Motor Show (to Sept. 23). LINK: http://www.iaa.de/index.php?id=home0&L=1
MOSCOW - Trial resumes of Alexander Pichushkin, a supermarket porter who prosecutors say murdered 49 people over a 14-year period, which would make him Russia's worst serial killer in a decade.
JOHANNESBURG - Extradition hearing in the case of Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir on charges of murder, fraud, illegal arms possession and tax evasion.
MONTANA - Annual Rocky Mountain Oyster festival. LINK: www.testyfesty.com
NEW YORK - Sentencing of Adam Vitale, who pleaded guilty to sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
LONDON - Opening of an exhibition at the British Museum featuring 20 Terracotta Warriors sent from China. ** BAUCHI, Nigeria - (ADJOURNED FROM AUG 21) Bauchi Sharia court to try 18 people charged with sodomy.
FRIDAY, SEPT 14
KIEV - EU-Ukraine summit.
SATURDAY, SEPT 15
UNITED NATIONS - Chief prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunal for Balkans, Carla del Ponte due to step down.
DUBAI - Smoking ban in the hallways, food courts, children's play areas and emergency exits of Dubai's sprawling shopping malls, comes into effect. On May 30, Dubai imposed a ban on smoking in government buildings, schools and colleges.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Deadline for U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) to put its nomination to stage 2016 Games before the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
SUNDAY, SEPT 16
LOS ANGELES - 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
OPORTO, Portugal - Informal Meeting of Agriculture Ministers (to Sept. 18).
GREECE - Parliamentary elections.
MONDAY, SEPT 17
VIENNA - IAEA General Conference (to Sept. 21).
BELGRADE - World Health Organisation's Regional Committee holds a session (to Sept. 20).
BRUSSELS - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting (to Sept. 18).
LISBON - Seminar on EU-India - Cooperation in the area of employment and social affairs (to Sept. 18).
CHICAGO - Trial of Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Robert Kelly on child pornography charges.
TUESDAY, SEPT 18
VIENNA - IAEA Scientific Forum (to Sept. 19).
LISBON - EU-Turkey Troika meeting.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 19
BANGKOK - One year anniversary of military coup in Thailand. The armed forces seized power without firing a shot, dismissing prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's government in the country's first coup in 15 years.
BUCHAREST - Hearings at the Supreme Court of Justice resume in a second graft trial against former prime minister Adrian Nastase, after being postponed in June.
LONDON - Sentencing of Bachan Athwal, 70, and her son Sukhdave Singh Athwal, convicted of the "honour killing" of Sikh Heathrow Airport worker, Surjit Kaur Athwal. The two killed Surjit, who disappeared in December in 1998 after she decided to walk out of her arranged marriage with Sukhdave. Surjit was lured to India by Bachan and Sukhdave on the pretext of attending family weddings but was instead strangled.
THURSDAY, SEPT 20
NEW YORK - G8 Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting.
PARIS - Paris Fashion week spring summer 2008 collections (to Oct 8). Link: http://www.modeaparis.com/
NEW ORLEANS - Fall meeting of the U.S. House of Bishops (to Sept. 25). To be attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain - The 55th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival (to Sept. 29). Link: http://www.ffm-montreal.org/
FRIDAY, SEPT 21
MICHIGAN - Mackinac Republican Conference. 2008 Republican presidential candidates: former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Senator John McCain and former Governor Mitt Romney are scheduled to speak.
JERUSALEM - Yom Kippur Jewish religious day.
LISBON - EU-New Zealand Troika Meeting.
MONTEREY, Calif., - 50th annual Monterey Jazz Festival (to Sept. 23).
SATURDAY, SEPT 22
UNITED NATIONS - (TENTATIVE) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to call a meeting on the future of Iraq as well as a session of the Quartet mediators on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (weekend of Sept. 22-23).
MUNICH - Oktoberfest (to Oct. 3).
MALI - Independence Day.
MILAN, Italy - Women Spring/Summer 2008 Fashion shows start (to Sept. 29).
CHINA - China's capital and the financial hub of Shanghai observes "no car" day, along with over 100 other cities. Private cars will be barred from some roads, forcing people to walk, use public transport or get back on the bicycles.
SUNDAY, SEPT 23
UNITED NATIONS - (TENTATIVE) The Quartet of Middle East mediators -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- are expected to meet.
BOURNEMOUTH, UK - Labour Party annual conference (to Sept. 27). [20070821 151919 GMT]
MONDAY, SEPT 24
UNITED NATIONS - 62nd Session of U.N. General Assembly starts.
NEW YORK - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to hold a high-level meeting on climate change on the fringes of the U.N. General Assembly's annual session.
STRASBOURG - EU parliament plenary session (to Sept. 27).
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia marks National Day.
ORLANDO, Fla., - Trial begins of Lisa Nowak, accused of trying to kidnap a woman, whom she viewed as a rival for the affections of Navy Commander and astronaut William Oefelein, after driving from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers to avoid a bathroom stop.
NEW YORK - Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, a Haitian former paramilitary leader accused of rape and murder in Haiti will now stand trial in New York on Sept. 24 for mortgage fraud.
BRUSSELS - EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting.
TUESDAY, SEPT 25
BEIRUT - Presidential elections.
UNITED NATIONS - Heads of state from member states express their views on a wide range of matters of international concern as part of the 62nd Session of U.N. General Assembly.
BANGKOK - (POSTPONED FROM AUG 14) Trial expected to start for ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife on corruption charges.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 26
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., - (TENTATIVE) NASA plans to launch its Dawn spacecraft into the asteroid belt aimed at orbiting two bodies, Vesta and Ceres.
LEVERKUSEN, Germany - UNEP Tunza International Youth Conference (to Sept. 30). Link: http://www.un.org/events/calendar/Edetail.asp?EventID=1054&Begin ate=9/26/2007
THURSDAY, SEPT 27
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush has invited 11 other countries plus the European Union and the United Nations to attend a high-level conference on global warming intended to work towards setting a long-term goal by 2008 to cut emissions (to Sept. 28). Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host the conference.
GALWAY, Ireland - International Oyster Festival (to Sept. 30). Link: http://www.galwayoysterfest.com/
FRIDAY, SEPT 28
BRUSSELS - North American Regional Meeting of the Trilateral Commission (to Sep. 30). Link: www.trilateral.org
EVORA, Portugal- Informal Meeting of EU Defence Ministers (to Sept. 29).
LISBON - European Union presidency holder Portugal, will hold an international conference for finding a European strategy to fight tax evasion.
NEW YORK - The 45th New York Film Festival (to Oct. 14).
SATURDAY, SEPT 29
MILAN - Women Spring/Summer 2008 Fashion shows end.
SUNDAY, SEPT 30
BRUSSELS - Bi-Annual progress report submission for Bulgaria and Romania, having joined the EU on Jan. 1 2007.
UNITED NATIONS - Mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Liberia expires.
BLACKPOOL, UK - Conservative Party annual conference (to Oct. 3).
UNITED STATES - Deadline set by the Anglican Communion for the U.S. Episcopal Church to stop blessing same sex unions.
QUITO - Elections to choose members of the assembly.
UKRAINE - Parliamentary elections.
OCTOBER 2007
MOSCOW - Russian foreign and defence ministers will meet their U.S. counterparts, in the 'two plus two' format, to discuss U.S. missile shield plans (to be held in the first 10 days of October).
JAPAN - A Chinese warship is expected to visit a Japanese port for the first time ever.
JERUSALEM - The conclusions of an Israeli commission of inquiry into Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's handling of the Lebanon war could be published in October.
GENEVA - A confidential interim ruling is expected in late October in the U.S. case against the EU "launch aid" loans to help Airbus develop new aircraft.
OSLO - Nobel Peace Prize winner announced.
WASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Rodrigo Rato due to step down.
NEW YORK - Financial Times/ Goldman Sachs Business Book of the year award due to be announced.
CHINA - China scheduled to launch a second satellite dedicated to broadcasting television and radio coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games.
MADRID - Verdicts expected in the trial of 28 men charged with Islamist train bombings in 2004.
AUSTRALIA - (TENTATIVE) National elections. ** ADDIS ABABA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expected to visit Ethiopia as part of her tour of African countries (early October).
MONDAY, OCT 1
STRASBOURG, France - Fourth part of the 2007 Ordinary Session of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe) (to Oct. 5).
WASHINGTON - U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson's resignation comes into effect.
BOSTON - Trial begins of a Neil Entwistle, a British man accused of killing his American wife and infant daughter then fleeing to England.
ISTANBUL - Trial resumes into murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
TUESDAY, OCT 2
PYONGYANG - (MOVED FROM AUG. 28) South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will visit North Korea for a summit meeting with leader Kim Jong-il, the second only since the end of the 1950-53 Korean war (to Oct. 4). The first summit held in 2000 led to decreased tension and unprecedented cooperation between the two states.
LONDON - Inquest into the death of Princess Diana expected to start with jury selection.
GWALIOR, India - Forest rights group Ekta Parishad organises "People's Verdict 2007", a month-long march to New Delhi demanding right to land and livelihood. ** GUINEA - 50th anniversary of independence from France.
WEDNESDAY, OCT 3
KANO, Nigeria - Criminal and civil cases brought by Nigeria's Kano state government against U.S. drugmaker Pfizer over 1996 Trovan drug tests, resumes.
THURSDAY, OCT 4
MOSCOW - ANNIVERSARY - 50 years ago - The Soviet Union becomes the first nation in space, launching the Sputnik-I satellite into orbit 500 miles above the Earth.
LJUBLJANA - EU-Balkans Troika meeting (to Oct. 5).
FRIDAY, OCT 5
TARTU, Estonia - Queen Silvia of Sweden is due to visit Estonia (to Oct. 6).
CHELTENHAM, England - Cheltenham Literature Festival - The oldest literature festival in the world (to Oct. 14).
LONDON - Hearing expected at Old Bailey for Bilal Abdulla, Mohammed Asha and Sabeel Ahmed in London/Glasgow bomb case.
SUNDAY, OCT 7
SAN JOSE - Costa Rica's referendum on whether to enter a regional free trade pact with the U.S. will take place.
PARIS - SPORT - HORSE RACING - Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe - One of the top five flat races in the world.
MONDAY, OCT 8
PYONGYANG - 10th Anniversary of the appointment of North Korea leader, Kim Jong-Il as head of the Korean Workers' Party.
PAKISTAN/INDIA/AFGHANISTAN - Second anniversary of a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan.
LISBON - EU-Mercosur Forum.
LAGOS, Nigeria - Trial resumes of Chimaroke Nnamani, former governor of the southeastern state of Enugu, charged with graft and money-laundering.
BELFAST - Deadline for Northern Ireland's largest paramilitary group to disarm or face the cancellation of a funding package aimed at weaning it away from violence.
MIAMI, Fl., - Miami Carnival 2007.
ADDIS ABABA - Treason trial of civil rights activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie due to resume.
ABUJA - Nigerian Federal High Court to hear U.S. drugmaker Pfizer's motion seeking to quash Dr Nasidi-led report on Trovan tests.
TUESDAY, OCT 9
PYONGYANG - 1st Anniversary of North Korea's first nuclear test.
LISBON - EU-Latin America and Caribbean Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) (to Oct. 10).
WEDNESDAY, OCT 10
BRUSSELS - EU parliament plenary session (to Oct. 11).
BELGRADE - Serbian environment ministry hosts the Sixth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe," ministers from 56 countries of the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region, including Canada and the United States are expected to attend.
THURSDAY, OCT 11
LISBON - EU-U.S. Troika Meeting.
ABUJA - Court hearing in corruption trial of former governor Joshua Dariye of Nigeria's Plateau state.
FRIDAY, OCT 12
AFGHANISTAN - Mandate of the NATO force in Afghanistan expires.
MONDAY, OCT 15
SINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines will take delivery of the first Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger plane.
SHANGHAI, China - IAEA organizes Second International Symposium on Nuclear Power Plant Life Management (to Oct. 18).
UNITED NATIONS - Mandate of U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti due to expire.
WASHINGTON - Grand opening of The Newseum. Link: http://www.newseum.org
LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Ministers Meeting continues (to Oct 16).
TUESDAY, OCT 16
GLOBAL - World Food Day (to Oct. 16).
LONDON - Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007 to be announced. Link: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/2007prize/
WILMINGTON - Fuel Cycle Safety - Past, Present and Future, workshop organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (to Oct. 18). [20070821 151933 GMT]
WEDNESDAY, OCT 17
PYONGYANG - 81st Anniversary of the founding of the 'Down with Imperialism' Movement.
NAIROBI - Humanitarian Development Summit for humanitarian relief organisations (to Oct. 19).
LISBON - EU-Ukraine Troika meeting.
THURSDAY, OCT 18
LISBON - EU heads of state and government summit (to Oct. 19).
KOSOVO/UNITED NATIONS - Deadline for U.N. Security Council resolution on Kosovo may pave the way for Kosovo independence 120 days after the U.N. agreed a four-month delay, despite Russian objections to the plan.
FRIDAY, OCT 19
WASHINGTON - G7