The Week Ahead: June 23-29

June 27: The European Union signs Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova, and completes the signature process with Ukraine.

The Week Ahead is a detailed listing of key events of the coming week affecting RFE/RL's broadcast region.

Now on Twitter! Daily updates at @The_Week_Ahead.



MONDAY, June 23:

Armenia/Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Yerevan.

Azerbaijan/Russia: Gabala hosts the fifth Azerbaijan-Russia Interregional Forum (to June 24).

EU: Foreign Affairs Council begins in Luxembourg.

Iraq: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Baghdad.

PACE: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Summer Session begins in Strasbourg.

World: International Olympic Day.

World: Mozambique hosts the Mine Ban Treaty’s Review Conference (to June 27).


TUESDAY, June 24:

Azerbaijan
: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is scheduled to address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg.

Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Austrian President Heinz Fischer in Vienna.

NATO: Brussels hosts a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting (to June 25).

Ukraine/IMF: The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) mission visits Kyiv to conduct the first review of the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA).


WEDNESDAY, June 25:

Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow.

Germany/Ukraine: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Kyiv.


THURSDAY, June 26:

EU: The EU heads of state or government attend the European Council meeting in Brussels.

Ukraine: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is scheduled to address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg.

UN: International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

UN: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.


FRIDAY, June 27:

EU: The European Union signs Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova, and completes the signature process with Ukraine.

Tajikistan: National Reconciliation Day.


SATURDAY, June 28:

OSCE/Azerbaijan: Baku hosts the annual session of the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly (to July 2).

Ukraine: Constitution Day.


SUNDAY, June 29:

Georgia
: Repeat elections to be held in those seven precincts where the June 15 local election results were either annulled or the voting process disrupted on polling day.