The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's
broadcast region.
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MONDAY, July 2:
Afghanistan: Chatham House hosts a discussion titled "
The Media of Afghanistan: Challenges of Transition" in London.
EU:
European Parliament holds its Plenary Session in Strasbourg (to July 5).
Iran:
Iran holds military exercises with surface-to-surface missiles in the county's central desert (to July 3).
Macedonia/Kazakhstan: Macedonian President
Georgi Ivanov visits Astana (to July 3).
Kyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan: Kyrgyz Prime Minister
Omurbek Babanov visits Astana (to July 3).
Ukraine: Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovych meets with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian in Kyiv.
UN: The
United Nation conference on the arms trade treaty opens in New York (July 27).
TUESDAY, July 3:
Armenia: European Council President
Herman Van Rompuy visits Yerevan (to July 4).
Azerbaijan: Argentinian Foreign Minister
Hector Timerman visits Baku (to July 4).
Belarus: Independence Day.
Georgia: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) rapporteur and Swedish parliamentarian
Tina Acketoft is expected to visit Tskhinvali.
Iran:
Istanbul hosts a technical follow-up meeting between Iran and world powers to discuss Tehran's nuclear program.
Russia: Russian Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev to visit Kuril Islands.
Ukraine: The
European Court of Human Rights to deliver a chamber judgment in the case of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko at a public hearing in Strasbourg.
WEDNESDAY, July 4:
Georgia: European Council President
Herman Van Rompuy visits Tbilisi (to July 5).
Russia:
Kazan hosts the Eurasian Forum of cities.
Ukraine: Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovych holds news conference in Kyiv. The press conference has reportedly been
postponed.
Ukraine: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) rapporteur
Andrea Rigoni makes a fact-finding visit to Ukraine.
THURSDAY, July 5:
Azerbaijan: European Council President
Herman Van Rompuy visits Baku.
Azerbaijan: NATO Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia
James Appathurai visits Baku (to July 6).
OSCE:
OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly opens in Monaco to discuss Afghanistan, Belarus, Georgia, Iran, and Russia during its sessions (to July 9).
Russia: Kaliningrad hosts a
meeting of the Council of CIS defense ministers, chaired by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.
FRIDAY, July 6:
Balkans: Dubrovnik hosts the annual
Croatia Summit.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 18th annual
Sarajevo Film Festival opens (to July 14).
Russia/France:
International festival "Russian Culture Days with Pierre Cardin" opens in Lacoste (to July 8).
SATURDAY, July 7:
UN:
International Day of Cooperatives.
SUNDAY, July 8:
Afghanistan: Tokyo hosts an
international ministerial conference on support for Afghanistan.
Armenia:
International film festival Golden Apricot opens in Yerevan (to July 15).
Iraq:
New hearing in the trial of Iraq's fugitive Tariq al-Hashimi is scheduled to begin in Baghdad.
Russia:
Family, Love, and Fidelity Day.