January 14, 2005

This Week
Jan. 17		Martin Luther King Day
Jan. 18 - 22		World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Jan. 20		U.S. Presidential Inauguration, Washington, DC
Next Week
Jan. 26 - 30		World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos
Looking Ahead
January
Jan. 30		OPEC Ordinary Meeting of the Conference Vienna, Austria
February
February		Black History Month
Feb. 22		President Bush Travel to Europe
Feb. 28 - Mar. 11		Beijing +10 Conference: 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, New York
March
March 8		UN Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
March 15 - 17		NAFSA Washington Symposium:"Winning Hearts and Shaping Minds," Washington, DC
March 16		OPEC Ordinary Meeting of the Conference, Iran
March 16 - 18		IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Security, London, UK
March 20		World Tuberculosis Day
March 21 - 22		IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Power for the 21st Century, Paris, France
March 25-Sept. 25		2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan
April
April 7		World Health Day
April 15 - 17		Global Youth Service Day
April 22		Earth Day
April 28 - 29		Asia Roundtable 2005, World Economic Forum
May
May 3		World Press Freedom Day
May 4 - 6		Third Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, Santiago
May 16 - 25		WHO World Health Assembly, Geneva
May 20 - 22		World Economic Forum, Jordan
May 29-June 3		NAFSA 57th Annual Conference, Seattle
June
June 1 - 3		Africa Economic Summit, Cape Town, South Africa
June 2 - 3		APEC Meeting of Trade Ministers, Jeju, Korea
June 5		World Environment Day
June 5 - 7		Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly, Fort Lauderdale
June 5 - 8		G-8 Summit, Scotland
June 20		World Refugee Day
June 26		International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
June 26		International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
July
July 1 - 5		International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Kobe, Japan
July 11		World Population Day
July 12 - 22		ITU Council 2005, Geneva
July 27 - 30		Sister Cities Annual Conference Connecting Global Villages, Spokane
August
Aug. 28 - Sept. 3		12th APEC SME Ministerial, Daegu, Korea
September
Sept. 13 - December		UN General Assembly, New York
Sept. 26 - 27		Annual Meeting of the World Bank and IMF, Washington, DC
Sept. 26 - 30		IAEA General Conference, Vienna, Austria
October
Oct. 3 - 6		ITU TELECOM Americas 2005, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
November
November		IV Summit of the Americas, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Nov. 15 - 16		APEC Joint Ministerial, Busan, Korea
Nov. 16 - 18		The World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis
Nov. 18 - 19		APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, Busan, Korea
Nov. 27 - 29		World Economic Forum, New Delhi, India
December
Dec. 5 - 9		International Conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs in Africa, Abuja, Nigeria
Dec. 13 - 18		WTO Ministerial, Hong Kong
Scheduled Elections

Jan. 16	Croatia	Presidential (Second Round)
Jan. 30	Iraq	Parliamentary
Jan. 30	Central African Rep.	Presidential / Parliamentary
February	Greece	Presidential
Feb. 7	Senegal	Presidential
Feb. 10	Saudi Arabia	Municipal (Stage One)
Feb. 13	Thailand	Parliamentary
Feb. 27	Central African Rep.	Presidential (Second Round)
Feb. 27	Kyrgyzstan	Parliamentary
March	Andorra	Legislative
March	Burundi	Parliamentary
Mar. 3	Saudi Arabia	Municipal (Stage Two)
Mar. 11, 13	Liechtenstein	Parliamentary
April	Burundi	Presidential
April	Afghanistan	Parliamentary
April 21	Saudi Arabia	Municipal (Stage Three)
May	Suriname	Presidential/Legislative
May 8	France	Referendum (EU Constitution)
May 15	Ethiopia	Legislative
May 17	Cayman Islands	Legislative
June 17	Iran	Presidential