July 16, 2004

Of Note
July 19-21		Traditional Healing and HIV/AIDS Conference, Dakar
Next Week
July 19		President Ricardo Lagos of Chile visit to Washington
July 19		Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi of Malaysia visit to Washington
July 19-21		Traditional Healing and HIV/AIDS Conference, Dakar
July 19-20		International Donors Conference on Haiti, Washington
July 19-30		Biological Weapons Convention Expert Meeting, Geneva
Currently Underway
July 14-17		Sister Cities International Annual Conference, Ft. Worth
Looking Ahead
July
July 26-29		Democratic National Convention, Boston
July 26-Sept. 10		Conference on Disarmament, Part III, Geneva
July 30-31		APEC Fourth Meeting of the Counter Terrorism Task Force (CTTF), Singapore
August
Aug. 5-11		Pacific Islands Forum and Post-Forum Dialogue, Apia
Aug. 13-29		2004 Summer Olympic Games, Athens
Aug. 23-24		Organization of American States (OAS) Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Culture, Mexico
Aug. 30-Sept. 1		AIDS Vaccine 2004 International Conference, Lausanne
Aug. 30-Sept. 2		Republican National Convention, New York
Aug. 30-Sept. 3		International Meeting for the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Port Louis
September
Sept. 2-3		APEC Finance Ministers Meeting, Santiago
Sept. 7-11		ITU Telecom Asia 2004, Busan, Korea
Sept. 11		9/11 Commemoration
Sept. 12-14		World Economic Forum, China Business Summit
Sept. 17-28		2004 Paralympic Games, Athens
Sept. 20-24		International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference, Vienna
Sept. 21		International Day of Peace
Sept. 21-Oct. 1		United Nations General Assembly, New York
Sept. 25-Oct. 4		APEC SOM III and related meetings, Santiago
Sept. 27-Oct. 5		WIPO General Assembly, 31st (15th Extraordinary) Session, Geneva
Sept. 28		Newly redesigned Series 2004 $50 note begin distribution
October
Oct.		International Religious Freedom Report Roll-out
Oct. 2-14		13th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES COP 13), Bangkok
Oct. 4-6		First Asia/Pacific Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS Best Practices Conference, Islamabad
Oct. 5-14		World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA), Florianopolis, Brazil
Oct. 6-7		Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Ministerial Meeting, Santiago
Oct. 12-13		Informal meeting of NATO Defense Minsiters, Brussels
Oct. 16-Nov 14		Ramadan
Oct. 16		World Food Day
Oct. 24		United Nations Day
November
Nov. 1-6		IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Vilamoura, Portugal
Nov. 17-18		Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Joint Ministerial, Santiago
Nov. 17-18		Arctic Council Ministerial, Reykjavik
Nov. 17-20		Sixth Defense Ministerial of the Americas, Quito
Nov. 17-21		International Education Week
Nov. 17-25		World Conservation Congress, Bangkok
Nov. 20-21		Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Summit, Santiago
Nov. 29-Dec. 3		Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World, Nairobi
December
Dec. TBD		Summit of Heads of State of South America, Bolivia
Dec. 1		World AIDS Day
Dec. 3		International Day of Disabled Persons
Dec. 5-7		World Economic Forum, India Economic Summit
Dec. 6-7		Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial, Sofia
Dec. 6-10		Biological Weapons Convention Annual Meeting, Geneva
Dec. 7		Andean Special Summit, Cuzco, Peru
Dec. 10		Human Rights Day
January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
May 29-June 3		NAFSA 57th Annual Conference, Seattle
June 2005
June 5		World Environment Day
June 7-9		Fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption, Brasilia
June 26		International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
Nov. 16-18		The World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis
December 2005
Scheduled Elections

Sept. 7	Cook Islands	Legislative
Sept. 19	Kazakhstan	Parliamentary
Sept. 19	Lithuania	Parliamentary
Sept. 20	Indonesia	Presidential (Second Round)
Sept. 26	Northern Cyprus	Parliamentary
Sept. 28	France	Parliamentary (Senate)
Oct.	Afghanistan	Presidential
Oct. 17	Belarus	Parliamentary
Oct. 23	Kosovo	Parliamentary
Oct. 24	Tunisia	Presidential/Parliamentary
Oct. 31	Ukraine	Presidential
Oct. 31	Uruguay	Presidential (First Round) / Legislative
Nov. 2	United States	Presidential/Legislative
Nov. 15	Namibia	Presidential/Parliamentary
Nov. 28	Uruguay	Presidential (Second Round)
Nov. 28	Romania	Presidential (First Round) / Parliamentary
Dec. 12	Romania	Presidential (Second Round)