The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's
broadcast region.
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@The_Week_Ahead.
MONDAY, January 14:
Azerbaijan/Norway: Norwegian Foreign Minister
Espen Barth Eide visits Baku.
Croatia/EU: EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy
Stefan Fuele meets with Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic in Brussels.
Georgia/Latvia: Georgian Foreign Minister
Maia Panjikidze starts her official visit to Riga.
EU:
European Parliament plenary session opens in Strasbourg (to January 17).
EU: Brussels hosts an
annual meeting with the EU delegations from European Neighborhood countries with the participation of EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele.
Moldova/Poland: A
delegation of the Polish Sejm visits Chisinau (to January 15).
Pakistan: An influential
Pakistani imam and thousands of his supporters are due to reach Islamabad as part of a protest march to demand sweeping election reforms.
U.S./Russia: Wilson Center in Washington hosts a discussion titled "
Anti-Extremism Policies in Russia and How they Work in Practice."
TUESDAY, January 15:
Belarus:
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka holds press conference for local and foreign media in Minsk.
Eastern Europe:
Vienna hosts the 18th annual Central and Eastern European Forum to debate the outlook for Central and Eastern European economies.
Georgia/Czech Republic: Georgian Foreign Minister
Maia Panjikidze visits Prague.
NATO/Afghanistan: Germany hosts a
senior executive seminar on Central Asia after ISAF transition in Afghanistan (to January 23).
Pakistan/UN: Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar presides over the
counterterrorism debate at the United Nations Security Council in New York.
UK/Iraq: The International Institute For Strategic Studies in London hosts a discussion titled "
Iraq: From War to a New Authoritarianism."
U.S./Turkmenistan: U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
Robert Blake visits Ashgabat.
World: World Bank launches the latest biannual
Global Economic Prospects report.
World: Abu Dhabi hosts the
International Water Summit 2013 (to January 17).
World: Abu Dhabi hosts the
World Future Energy Summit 2013 (to January 17).
WEDNESDAY, January 16:
Iran/IAEA:
Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resume negotiations in Tehran.
NATO: The
168th NATO Chiefs of Defense meeting opens in Brussels (to January 17).
Russia: Moscow hosts a
conference titled "Russia in the World: Challenges of Integration" within the framework of the
Gaidar Forum (to January 19).
Russia/NATO:
A Russian delegation headed by General Staff Chief Col. Valery Gerasimov visits Brussels to discuss Russian-NATO military cooperation (to January 17).
Russia/Tajikistan: Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov visits Dushanbe.
U.S./Kyrgyzstan: U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
Robert Blake visits Bishkek.
World:
Freedom House releases its annual
Freedom in the World report.
THURSDAY, January 17:
Georgia/Armenia:
Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili visits Yerevan, meets with Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian.
OECD/Russia:
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria pays an official visit to Moscow (to January 18).
Russia:
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Stanislavsky, whose teachings shaped modern acting, particularly in Russia and the United States.
Serbia: Serbian city of Nis hosts an event that launches the
marking of 1,700 years of the Edict of Milan.
Serbia/Kosovo:
Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and his Kosovar counterpart Hashim Thaci hold a meeting in Brussels.
Ukraine:
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara presents priorities of Ukraine's OSCE Chairmanship at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna.
U.S.:
Sundance Film Festival opens in Salt Lake City, Utah (to January 27).
U.S./Uzbekistan: Wilson Center in Washington hosts a discussion titled "
Permanently Besieged: Agrarian Uzbeks and the Conundrum of Independence."
FRIDAY, January 18:
Kazakhstan: Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbaev meets with representatives of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Kazakhstan.
Ukraine: The
court hearing of a case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to be held in Kharkiv.
SUNDAY, January 20:
Georgia/Russia:
Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II visits Moscow (to January 21).