March 11 morning preview

BAKU, Azerbaijan

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a visit (until March 12).

MOSCOW

* The State Duma will hold a session (10.00 a.m., ul. Okhotny Ryad, 1, tel. (495) 692-80-00)

* RIA Novosti (Zubovsky Bulvar, 4, tel. (495) 637-50-19, 645-64-72) will host:

- A news conference PACE rapporteur for Russia, Luc Van den Brande, and Special Rapporteur Christos Pourgourides (1.00 p.m.);

- A news conference to discuss the current situation on the Korean Peninsula (3.00 p.m.);

* Experts of Collective Security Treaty Organization member states will hold consultations on military cooperation (until March 12)

* Russian truck maker Kamaz will hold an emergency shareholders' meeting (1.00 p.m., Verkhny Tagansky Tupik, 2/17, build. 1)

* A roundtable, Russia, Belarus or Ukraine: who was the most affected by the financial crisis? (1.00 p.m., ul. 1905 goda, 7, tel. 250-77-49, e-mail: sos@mk.ru)

* Moscow's Khamovnichesky Court will resume hearings on the second case against the jailed Yukos founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev

TULA, Central Russia

* Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill will pay a visit

ASTANA, Kazakhstan

* Second Astana economic forum, Eurasian economic security in the system of global risks, will open (until March 12)

LITHUANIA

* Lithuanian Finance Minister Algirdas Semeta and Vice-President of the European Investment Bank Eva Srejber will sign a loan agreement

VIENNA

* The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs will convene (until March 20)

PARIS

* The Bureau and the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold sessions

BERLIN

* An international travel exhibition, ITB, will begin (until March 15)

BRAZIL

* Prince Charles will pay a visit to discuss climate change

TEHRAN

* The Economic Cooperation Organization will hold a meeting

BAGHDAD

* A court will deliver its verdict on the case of former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz

CAPE CANAVERAL, U.S.

* The Discovery shuttle is scheduled to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station

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