The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.
MONDAY, July 12:
Macedonia: Croatian President Ivo Josipovic pays a one-day official visit to Skopje.
Serbia: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic in Belgrade.
Ukraine: Ukraine-NATO Sea Breeze military exercises open in the Black sea region (to July 23).
TUESDAY, July 13:
Georgia: Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski visits Tbilisi.
Russia: Russian-German forum Petersburg Dialogue opens in Yekaterinburg (to July 15).
Ukraine: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko visits China (to July 15).
WEDNESDAY, July 14:
Armenia: Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski visits Yerevan (to July 15).
Russia: German Chancellor Angela Merkel begins official visit to Russia (to July 15).
Russia: Nizhny Tagil hosts the 6th international exhibition Russian Defense Expo 2010 (to July 17).
THURSDAY, July 15:
Georgia: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton visits Tbilisi.
Georgia: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner pays an official visit to Tbilisi.
Iraq: U.S. military plans to hand over Camp Cropper to Iraqis.
Pakistan: India's Foreign Secretary S.M. Krishna visits Islamabad.
Uzbekistan: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle visits Uzbekistan.
FRIDAY, July 16:
Azerbaijan: EU-Azerbaijan talks on association agreement start in Baku.
Kazakhstan: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton visits Almaty to participate at OSCE Ministerial Meeting.
Kyrgyzstan: German, French foreign ministers are scheduled to visit Osh and Bishkek.
OSCE: Informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers begins in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Ukraine: Odessa International Film Festival opens (to July 24).
SATURDAY, July 17:
Armenia/Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to meet his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian in Almaty.
SUNDAY, July 18:
Kazakhstan: German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Astana.
World: XVIII International AIDS Conference opens in Vienna (to July 23).