EUROPE

• Feb. 13: The European Parliament plenary session will start in Strasbourg, France.
• Feb. 13: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip to discuss the euro crisis.
• Feb. 13: Pilots from Spanish airline Iberia are expected to join ground and cabin staff in a 24-hour strike to protest company plans to introduce a new low-cost airline. Another strike is scheduled for Feb. 17.
• Feb. 14: The EU-China summit will be held in Beijing, China.
• Feb. 15: Belgian rail trade unions are expected to hold a strike.
• Feb. 15: Eurozone finance ministers will discuss the Greek bailout package.
• Feb. 15: Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will speak to the European Parliament about Italy's situation and EU integration in Strasbourg.
• Feb. 15: The northern districts of Kosovo are expected to hold a referendum to decide whether the governmental institutions should be recognized. About 35,500 people will have the right to vote in 82 polling places in the municipalities of Zubin Potok, Zvecan, Leposavic and Kosovska Mitrovica.
• Feb. 16-17: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development global forum on competition will be held in Paris.

FORMER SOVIET UNION

• Feb. 13: NATO Secretary-General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai will visit Armenia to discuss preparations for the NATO summit in Chicago in May.

MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA

• Feb: 13: Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki will continue his visit to Algeria.
• Feb: 15: The deadline set by the Libyan Defense Ministry for rebel fighters to join the army will pass.

• Feb. 13-18: A five-member delegation from the government of Orissa in India will continue a visit to Taiwan to lure investors in Internet technology, electronics and automobile component manufacturing.
• Feb. 13-18: A Singapore business delegation will continue a visit to Myanmar to explore new investment opportunities.
• Feb. 13-14: The Bank of Japan will meet to discuss the Jan. 24-25 U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
• Feb. 13: The trial of Umar Patek, accused of the 2002 bombing in Bali, will begin in Indonesia.
• Feb. 13-22: Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will visit the United States, Turkey and Ireland.
• Feb. 14: Chinese and EU leaders will meet in Beijing for the 14th China-EU leaders' meeting.
• Feb. 14: Japan and Myanmar will launch preliminary talks aimed at signing bilateral investment agreements.

• Unspecified date: The Brazilian Supreme Court could decide whether the "Clean Sheet" law for politicians without previous criminal conduct will be valid for municipal elections this year.
• Unspecified date: The Brazilian Congress will receive the text and report of the General Law of the Cup, which gives the legal outline for the 2014 World Cup.
• Unspecified date: The Brazilian delegation in the Mercosur Parliament will hear a discourse on the subject of Paraguayans of Brazilian descent or Brazilian immigrant workers in Paraguay from Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota.
• Feb. 13-17: Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen will continue his visit to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as head of a business delegation of 60 company executives looking for opportunities to boost business ties between the two countries.
• Feb. 13-17: Catarina Albuquerque, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, will visit Uruguay to carry out an investigation of the population's access to basic sanitation and water needs.
• Feb. 14: People's Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas member-state foreign ministers will meet in Havana, Cuba, to decide if they will take part in the upcoming Summit of the Americas in April.
• Feb. 15: Repairs on Vale's mega ore carrier Vale Beijing are expected to be complete, and the ship will then set sail to Oman.
• Feb. 15: Mexican presidential candidate for the National Action Party Josefina Vasquez Mota will visit Sonora state on a tour to thank party affiliates who voted for her.
• Feb. 17: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo his last radiotherapy session to combat larynx cancer.

• Feb. 13-17: A U.S. energy trade mission, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson, will continue a tour of Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.
• Feb. 13-15: Botswanan Defense Force commander Lt. Gen. Tebogo Carter Masire will continue his visit to Zimbabwe to discuss bilateral relations.
• Feb. 15: Fifteen regional state representatives will convene in Abuja, Nigeria, to discuss regional security, including Gulf of Guinea piracy, during an Economic Community of West African States summit.