Two Weeks Ahead – 12 May 2014

Two Weeks Ahead (12MAY-25MAY)

Produced by the Rendon Group

KEY UPCOMING EVENTS & ANNIVERSARIES

• EUROPE REGION: European parliament elections (22MAY)
• MALAWI: Presidential and national assembly elections (20MAY)
• UKRAINE: Presidential elections (25MAY)
• COLOMBIA: Presidential elections (25MAY)
• PHILIPPINES: World Economic Forum on East Asia (12MAY to 23MAY)
• GUINEA BISSAU: Run-off presidential elections (18MAY)
• UKRAINE AND UNITED STATES: United States-Ukraine Working Group on Nonproliferation and Export Controls (15MAY to 16MAY)

KEY RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS

• Nothing to report

Monday, May 12, 2014

• Europe Region: Anniversary of the Black Sea Fleet – 1783
• Middle East Region: Arab FMs hold meeting on Syria in Saudi Arabia
• Cambodia: Royal Ploughing Day Ceremony
• Germany: Anniversary of Soviets lifting the blockade of West Berlin after eleven months – 1949
• Philippines: World Economic Forum on East Asia (to 23MAY)
• Uruguay: President Jose Mujica to visit White House

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

• Ecuador: Independence Day – 1830
• Pakistan: EU EOM will issue a statement of its preliminary findings on elections
• Philippines: Elections
• United States: GovSec Expo (14MAY)
• Uzbekistan: Anniversary of Andijan massacre – 2005

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

• Global: Anniversary of the creation of the Warsaw Pact – 1955
• Malaysia: Malaysian Youth Day
• Paraguay: Paraguay becomes independent – 1811

Thursday, May 15, 2014

• Global:  Foreign ministers of the Arctic Council, an international forum for the eight states bordering the Arctic, are to meet
• France: Date of trial of makers of a diabetes and weight loss drug suspected in hundreds of deaths in France will be set
• Israel/Palestine: Anniversary of Day of Al-Nakba – 1948
• Russia:  Heads of G8 drug control agencies will convene in Moscow
• Ukraine and United States: United States-Ukraine Working Group on Nonproliferation and Export Controls (to 16MAY)

Friday, May 16, 2014

• China: Anniversary of hundreds of thousands arriving in Beijing to support college students fasting for freedom in Tiananmen Square – 1989
• India: Results of the general election to be announced
• Japan: Anniversary of Japan’s Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai is assassinated in Tokyo – 1932
• South Korea: Anniversary of Maj. Gen. Park Chung-hee stages a military coup in South Korea – 1961
• Sudan: Anniversary of the beginning of the rebellion of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army – 1983
• Zaire/DRC: Anniversary of Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko gives up power after 32 years of autocratic rule – 1997

Saturday, May 17, 2014

• Norway: Constitution Day -1814
• Zaire/DRC: Anniversary of Zaire renamed to the Democratic Republic of Congo – 1997

Sunday, May 18, 2014

• Guinea Bissau: Run-off election
• India: Anniversary of India’s first nuclear test – 1974
• Sri Lanka: Anniversary of the end of fighting between the Sri Lankan Government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – 2009

Monday, May 19, 2014

• United States and New Zealand: U.S.-NZ Partnership Forum in Washington (to 21MAY)

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

• Cuba: Anniversary of Cuba’s independence from the US – 1902
• Malawi: Presidential and national assembly elections
• United States: National Defense Industrial Association Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (to May 22)

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

• Chile: Navy Day (Battle of Iquiqie – 1879)
• Montenegro: Independence Day
• Yemen: Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agreeing to unity – 1990

Thursday, May 22, 2014

• Europe Region: European parliament elections
• Chile: Anniversary of a 9.5-magnitude earthquake, the biggest ever recorded, kills 5,700 people in Chile while the tsunami it triggers leaves 130 dead in Japan and 61 in Hawaii -1960
• Europe Region: Anniversary of creation of the Eurocorps, an intergovernmental standing army corps, which integrates the Franco-German brigade. – 1992
• Iraq: Anniversary of end of Britain’s military presence in Iraq – 2011
• Kazakhstan: International exhibition of armaments and military equipment KADEX-2014 (to 25MAY)
• Russia: St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

Friday, May 23, 2014

• Afghanistan: President Karzai to step down, successor to take office

Saturday, May 24, 2014

• Eritrea: Eritrean Independence Day – 1993
• Israel: Catholic Pope Francis to visit Amman, Bethlehem and Jerusalem (to 26MAY)

Sunday, May 25, 2014

• Belgium: Chamber of representatives elections
• Colombia: Presidential elections (1st round)
• Denmark: Referendum
• Jordan: Jordan Independence Day / Renaissance Day – 1946
• Lebanon: Anniversary of Southern Lebanon’s “liberation” – 2000
• Lithuania: Presidential elections
• Saudi Arabia: Anniversary of the creation of the Gulf Cooperation Council – 1981
• Sierra Leone: Anniversary of rebels toppling the government of Sierra Leone in a violent coup – 1997
• Sudan: Anniversary of parliamentary government in Sudan overthrown in bloodless coup and Maj. Gen. Jafaar Numeiry heads new military regime – 1969
• Ukraine: Presidential elections

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