Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

SERBIA

BELGRADE - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be welcomed with official ceremony by his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic at Palace of Serbia.

BELGRADE - Erdogan and Vucic to later hold bilateral meeting and co-chair High-Level Cooperation Council meeting. Two leaders also due to hold press conference followed by Turkey-Serbia Business Forum.

BELGRADE - Erdogan also to attend official dinner to be held in his honor by Vucic.

US

WASHINGTON - Following developments after second whistleblower comes forward in Trump-Ukraine case.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion to stage protests, erect road blockades in German capital as part of international climate protests.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, EU Council President Donald Tusk, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to have working lunch.

AUSTRIA

VIENNA - President Alexander Van der Bellen to give mandate to Sebastian Kurz, head of Austrian People's Party (OVP), to form government.

SWEDEN

STOCKHOLM - Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to be announced.

IRAQ

BAGHDAD - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to hold official talks in Baghdad and Erbil.

BAGHDAD - Following latest developments in ongoing anti-government protests.

TUNISIA

TUNIS - Following results of parliamentary elections.

YEMEN

SANAA - UN’s envoy in shuttle diplomacy to bring Yemeni rivals together.

SYRIA

ALEPPO / IDLIB - Monitoring developments in Syrian civil war.

RWANDA

KIGALI - Rwandan Satellite recently launched successfully by H-2B rocket from Tanegashima, Japan. Government and Japanese embassy to hold a press conference.

SOUTH SUDAN

JUBA - Minister of Petroleum to hold a press conference on pipeline leakage in oilfield that affects local communities.

JUBA - Amnesty International report on crippled justice system and blanket amnesties fueling impunity for war crimes.

SOUTH AFRICA

JOHANNESBURG - The son of former South African President Jacob Zuma will appear before a judicial commission of inquiry probing corruption between the state and private sector.

JOHANNESBURG - The trial of rape accused Nigerian Tele-evangelist Tomothy Omotoso and two co-accused to resume at a court in the Eastern Cape province.

KENYA

NAIROBI - On World Habitat Day, the Sengwer indigenous people to march for justice, ask for an end to forced evictions and seek the right to their ancestral land in Embobut forest.

ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkey’s State Airports Authority to release airport statistics for January-September.

ANKARA - Turkey’s Treasury and Finance Ministry to release treasury cash realizations for September.

ANKARA - Turkey's Trade Ministry to release foreign trade expectation survey results for the last quarter of this year.