Japan: Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, State Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy Kaoru Yosano deliver policy speeches (0500 gmt) on first day of new Diet session Mongolia: Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum annual meeting continues (-27); delegates from 28 countries discuss environmental sustainability, terrorism, natural disasters, financial crises, regional collaboration, energy security, climate change China: Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi hosts meeting of foreign ministers from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in southwestern Yunnan ProvinceThailand:ASEAN Foreign Ministers to take a 12 hour road trip from Chang Rai through Laos to Jinhong across the China border, part of efforts to show regional "connectivity" and improve infrastructure. India:Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives in India on a three-day state visit aimed at sealing multi-billion dollar trade deals between the two countries.Pakistan:Pakistan and Russia Security talks (to Jan. 25).
Pakistan: Next hearing in case of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's assassination held in camera in RawalpindiKyrgyzstan:The trial over the deadly clashes between police and protestors in Dzhalal-Abad Region's Aksy District in 2002 resumes Russia: Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo visits Moscow to attend fifth round of China-Russia strategic security talks (-25) Russia:Federation Council Committee on International Affairs discuss the ratification of the START treaty Russia:Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan meets with his Russian and Azerbaijani counterparts (Sergei Lavrov and Elmar Mammadyarov) in Moscow on the Karabakh settlement Iraq:Shia pilgrims make a trek to Kerbala for Arbain – attacks highly likely Iraq:UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres visits Iraq.Kuwait: Yemeni-Kuwaiti joint ministerial committee meeting opens (-26); co-chaired by respective foreign ministers Syria: Iranian caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi visits Damascus for talks with senior officials on regional issues; today, meets President Bashar al-AsadLebanon: President Michael Sulayman holds parliamentary consultations on new premier following collapse of unity government earlier in January; delayed from 17 January to allow parties "more time to decide on candidates" Israel:President Shimon Peres is due to address the Knesset.Egypt: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas meets counterpart Husni Mubarak for talks on recent developments in Palestinian territories Sudan: Chairman of Southern Sudan Referendum Commission Muhammad Ibrahim Khalil, his deputy and commission members hold press conference in Khartoum (0800 gmt); will focus on referendum process, counting phase and announcing partial results inside and outside country Tunisia:Main trade union, UGTT, says primary teachers to begin indefinite strike to force dissolution of government.Tunisia: Watching developments as hundreds of people protest in front of prime minister's office in Tunis in support of call for interim government to resign
Pakistan: Next hearing in case of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's assassination held in camera in RawalpindiKyrgyzstan:The trial over the deadly clashes between police and protestors in Dzhalal-Abad Region's Aksy District in 2002 resumes Russia: Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo visits Moscow to attend fifth round of China-Russia strategic security talks (-25) Russia:Federation Council Committee on International Affairs discuss the ratification of the START treaty Russia:Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan meets with his Russian and Azerbaijani counterparts (Sergei Lavrov and Elmar Mammadyarov) in Moscow on the Karabakh settlement Iraq:Shia pilgrims make a trek to Kerbala for Arbain – attacks highly likely Iraq:UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres visits Iraq.Kuwait: Yemeni-Kuwaiti joint ministerial committee meeting opens (-26); co-chaired by respective foreign ministers Syria: Iranian caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi visits Damascus for talks with senior officials on regional issues; today, meets President Bashar al-AsadLebanon: President Michael Sulayman holds parliamentary consultations on new premier following collapse of unity government earlier in January; delayed from 17 January to allow parties "more time to decide on candidates" Israel:President Shimon Peres is due to address the Knesset.Egypt: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas meets counterpart Husni Mubarak for talks on recent developments in Palestinian territories Sudan: Chairman of Southern Sudan Referendum Commission Muhammad Ibrahim Khalil, his deputy and commission members hold press conference in Khartoum (0800 gmt); will focus on referendum process, counting phase and announcing partial results inside and outside country Tunisia:Main trade union, UGTT, says primary teachers to begin indefinite strike to force dissolution of government.Tunisia: Watching developments as hundreds of people protest in front of prime minister's office in Tunis in support of call for interim government to resign
Ethiopia:21st Session of the African Union Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) (to Jan. 25) Uganda: High Court War Crimes Division hears application for bail by four men - Mohamed Adan Abdow, Khalif Abdi Mohammed, Ismail Kalule, Abubakari Batematyo - on remand in connection with 11 July 2010 twin bomb blasts in Kampala that killed more than 74 people
Nigeria:Deputy to the Commander of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), Amb. J. Anthony Holmes, begins four day visit with Nigerian military and security officials.Burkina Faso:Guinean President Alpha Conde Burkina visits Faso, Libya, Angola and Ethiopia; in Addis Ababa, will take part in African Union summit on 30-31 January Ukraine:Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits to discuss trade, investment Switzerland:UN conference on disarmament session takes place in GenevaDenmark:In protest against execution of Hoseyn Khizri and in support of political prisoners in Iranian prisons, PJAK, Democratic Union Party (PYD), Centre of Halabjah against Anfal and Genocide of the Kurds and federation of Kurdish societies, oversee protest in Copenhagen [I expect in front of the Iranian embassy?] Germany:Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel. News conference at 1445 GMT.Holland:The Dutch Parliament is expected to debate this week the proposed police training mission in Afghanistan.
Belgium:Human Rights Watch releases its annual review of human rights situations around the world, this year focusing on what it calls the silence and complicity of the U.S., U.N., EU and major European nations in dealing with rights-abusing developing nations. News confernce at 1001 GMT. Belgium:Uzbek President Islom Karimov visits Brussels at the invitation of President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso. Human rights, energy, water on agenda; first visit to Western Europe following 2005 crackdown on protesters in Andijon, which left hundreds of people dead Belgium:European Union agriculture ministers meet to discuss how to enforce higher standards in animal feed production after the discovery of the toxic chemical dioxin in feed in Germany.France: Tentative: Sarkozy expected to meet with Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea France:French President Nicolas Sarkozy to hold news conference on G20 goals.UK:Saudi prince Turki Al Faisal speaks on Middle Eastern regional realities at Westminster UN:Human rights team begins examining situation in TunisiaUN:Special rapporteur on violence against women conducts fact finding mission in USUS:Annual march to the Supreme Court to protest the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion. US:Court hearing in the family dispute over where the body of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez is to be buriedMexico:US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Guanajuato for talks with counterpart Patricia Espinosa; cooperation in fighting drugs, climate change among issues on agenda
Nigeria:Deputy to the Commander of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), Amb. J. Anthony Holmes, begins four day visit with Nigerian military and security officials.Burkina Faso:Guinean President Alpha Conde Burkina visits Faso, Libya, Angola and Ethiopia; in Addis Ababa, will take part in African Union summit on 30-31 January Ukraine:Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits to discuss trade, investment Switzerland:UN conference on disarmament session takes place in GenevaDenmark:In protest against execution of Hoseyn Khizri and in support of political prisoners in Iranian prisons, PJAK, Democratic Union Party (PYD), Centre of Halabjah against Anfal and Genocide of the Kurds and federation of Kurdish societies, oversee protest in Copenhagen [I expect in front of the Iranian embassy?] Germany:Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel. News conference at 1445 GMT.Holland:The Dutch Parliament is expected to debate this week the proposed police training mission in Afghanistan.
Belgium:Human Rights Watch releases its annual review of human rights situations around the world, this year focusing on what it calls the silence and complicity of the U.S., U.N., EU and major European nations in dealing with rights-abusing developing nations. News confernce at 1001 GMT. Belgium:Uzbek President Islom Karimov visits Brussels at the invitation of President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso. Human rights, energy, water on agenda; first visit to Western Europe following 2005 crackdown on protesters in Andijon, which left hundreds of people dead Belgium:European Union agriculture ministers meet to discuss how to enforce higher standards in animal feed production after the discovery of the toxic chemical dioxin in feed in Germany.France: Tentative: Sarkozy expected to meet with Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea France:French President Nicolas Sarkozy to hold news conference on G20 goals.UK:Saudi prince Turki Al Faisal speaks on Middle Eastern regional realities at Westminster UN:Human rights team begins examining situation in TunisiaUN:Special rapporteur on violence against women conducts fact finding mission in USUS:Annual march to the Supreme Court to protest the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion. US:Court hearing in the family dispute over where the body of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez is to be buriedMexico:US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Guanajuato for talks with counterpart Patricia Espinosa; cooperation in fighting drugs, climate change among issues on agenda
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