Diary

ANKARA (AA) – Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ANKARA – TurkStat to release 2018 survey results of using information and communication technology (ICT) by enterprises.

ANKARA – Eurostat, statistics office of the European Union, to release industrial production figures for July.

U.S.

NEW YORK – UN Security Council to debate peacekeeping missions amid US push to wind down operations​.

GERMANY

BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel to deliver a speech at parliament on her government's budget proposal for 2019.

BERLIN – Hans-Georg Maassen, head of domestic intelligence service BfV, is expected to testify before parliament’s intelligence committee after his controversial remarks on far-right unrest in eastern Germany.

FRANCE

STRASBOURG – Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his fourth and last “State of the Union” address eight months before the European elections.

STRASBOURG – Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will debate and vote on Parliament’s position on copyright rules for the digital sphere.

U.K.

LONDON – British Prime Minister Theresa May to respond to lawmakers’ questions at the House of Commons.

LONDON – The House of Commons to hold a debate on the Salisbury poisoning incident.

LONDON – Turkey's Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan will attend the first Turkey-Britain Joint Economic and Trade Commission (JETCO) meeting after the country voted for Brexit.

RUSSIA

VLADIVOSTOK – President Vladimir Putin to meet with his Mongolian counterpart Khaltmaa Battulga and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon. Putin later to attend the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum along with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Battulga and Lee.

MOSCOW – Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak to meet Moldovan President Igor Dodon.

IRAQ

ERBIL – Northern Iraq’s Kurdish region gears up for parliamentary polls slated for Sept. 30.

YEMEN

SANAA – War-weary Yemenis struggle with effects of recent plunge in value of local currency.

PALESTINE

RAMALLAH – Following reactions to US decision to close Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington and cut funding to UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.​

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