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The dates coming up across the board, as the latest research review of each entry listed them: 23 dates in the next 30 days. Dates move, and some are approximate or unconfirmed, as marked. A date several entries list appears once, under all of them. How the board works.
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September 2026 17 dates
Thu 24 Sep
- Trump-Xi summit in Washington
Fri 25 Sep
- Official Russian State Duma election results due no earlier than this date
- Russian gas deliveries to Armenia are due to resume after pipeline maintenance
Sat 26 Sep
- FSB curfew and movement restrictions on the Russian side of the Narva border zone with Estonia due to end
Sun 27 Sep
- UN Iran Panel of Experts mandate lapses
- Panel of Experts expiry and 90-day 1737 Committee briefing
- Vucic says he will resign the Serbian presidency to lead his party's election campaign
Tue 29 Sep
- International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
- US import bans on Canadian alcohol, motorcycles, whey and other goods take effect
Wed 30 Sep
- End of the US-led coalition mission in Iraq, originally also the militia disarmament deadline
- End of the US-led coalition mission in Iraq; Iraqi officials say it is not a disarmament deadline
- UN Security Council vote on re-authorising the Gang Suppression Force; current mandate expires
- Approval window for the election deal closes (approximate)
- Curfew in Guayas, Manabi, Los Rios and El Oro under Ecuador's Decree 498 due to end
- Tulkarm and Nur Shams camp closure orders lapse or renew
- UNSC monthly Syria meeting (approximate)
Day not yet set
- Planned Mirzoyan-Bayramov meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York
October 2026 21 dates
Thu 1 Oct
- PKK camp evacuation date under the Turkish peace process
- Point from which the Iraqi government says the weapons-monopoly plan begins to be implemented
- Expected evacuation of PKK camps in the Qandil mountains
Sun 4 Oct
- Bosnia and Herzegovina general election
- Brazil first-round presidential election
Fri 9 Oct
- Darfur sanctions rollover expires (approximately Oct 9-12)
Tue 13 Oct
- Voter registration closes
Sun 25 Oct
- Serbia early parliamentary election
- Brazil run-off
Tue 27 Oct
- Israeli Knesset election
- Israel election
Day not yet set
- ASEAN summit season (date unverified)
- Expected restart of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline after three to five weeks of repairs
- NATO defence ministers meeting
- PICSS September monthly security assessment, normally published in the first days of the month
- Parliament convenes and reappoints Abiy
- Rescheduled Rome round on the June trilateral framework
- US-DRC-Rwanda trilateral planning conference on a revised operations order
- Israel's 30-day deadline for closing the UK consulate in Jerusalem, set on Sept 8-9, expires
- Security Council aims to recommend a single Secretary-General candidate
- UNGA vote on the Cuba embargo (late October or November)
November 2026 12 dates
Tue 3 Nov
- US midterm elections
Mon 9 Nov
- Panel of Experts mandate expires
Tue 10 Nov
- Trade truce and rare-earth control suspension expiry
Sat 14 Nov
- Ecuador's 60-day Decree 498 state of exception lapses (approximate)
Sun 15 Nov
- 100-day surrender ultimatum to armed groups lapses (approximate)
Tue 17 Nov
- Mondlane trial opens at the Supreme Court
- US federal court hearing on Maduro's motions to dismiss (reported)
Wed 18 Nov
- APEC leaders' meeting, Shenzhen
Sat 28 Nov
- Scheduled Palestinian legislative election (postponement likely)
Day not yet set
- Next IAEA quarterly Iran report (approximate)
- Peru's 60-day prison state of emergency lapses (early November)
- Taiwan local elections and nuclear referendum
December 2026 11 dates
Sun 6 Dec
- Guinea-Bissau presidential and legislative elections
Sun 13 Dec
- First-round presidential and legislative elections and constitutional referendum
Mon 14 Dec
- G20 summit, Miami
Tue 22 Dec
- South Sudan general election
Thu 31 Dec
- End of the reported first phase folding faction fighters into the PMF (single-sourced)
- USMCA interim-arrangement target
Day not yet set
- MONUSCO mandate renewal
- UNIFIL withdrawal due by the end of the year
- Japan's revised security documents due
- Possible Trump-Kim meeting 'later this year' (unscheduled)
- Japan security strategy revision due
January 2027 2 dates
Fri 1 Jan
- EU ban on LNG terminal services for Russian operators
Mon 18 Jan
- Nicaragua's second ratifying vote on the constitutional reform
February 2027 3 dates
Sun 21 Feb
- Run-off
Mon 22 Feb
- End of the transitional period as read by the opposition
Day not yet set
- Nigeria general election (date unverified)
June 2027 1 date
Thu 17 Jun
- UNAMA mandate expires under Resolution 2822
July 2027 1 date
Fri 23 Jul
- EU oil price-cap freeze from the 21st package runs 12 months
August 2027 1 date
Day not yet set
- Kenya general election (approximate)
September 2027 1 date
Tue 14 Sep
- Trading with the Enemy Act authorities on Cuba expire under Presidential Determination 2026-21
August 2028 1 date
Day not yet set
- Elections due within 24 months of the Aug 30 deal
Date not yet set 19
Expected, with no date announced.
- Possible trilateral Ukraine-Russia-US talks in the UAE, signalled by the Kremlin on Sept 13
- Trump's decision on the Graham sanctions bill passed by Congress on Sept 16
- East-West pipeline restart; Rystad expected a partial restart within weeks of Sept 17
- Rescheduled Salalah meeting of Iranian, Iraqi and Gulf foreign ministers on Hormuz; postponed by Oman on Sept 13 with no new date
- UN Security Council follow-up to the Sept 15 emergency Yemen meeting
- Security Council quarterly open briefing on Afghanistan, with SRSG Rabab Fatima briefing
- Iranian parliament open-session debate on the NPT-withdrawal bill, pending the speaker's approval
- Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors meet at the US State Department in Washington
- Iranian parliament decides whether to debate the NPT-withdrawal bill
- UN Security Council takes up the Iranian safeguards referral
- Parliamentary passage of the Wapda Security Force Act 2026 creating a dedicated force for water projects and Chinese personnel (sent to parliament in May 2026)
- First Seimas plenary vote on deleting Article 137 of Lithuania's constitution, with two votes at least three months apart and a 94-vote supermajority reported to be required
- Further US-Belarus prisoner-for-sanctions round sought by Lukashenko
- Next round of India-China Special Representatives talks on the boundary question
- Signature of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement, expected during the UN General Assembly week
- ICJ Essequibo judgment
- TRIPP corridor implementation, now expected in 2027 rather than late 2026
- Second session of the Thailand-Cambodia UNCLOS conciliation commission
- Verdict in the Sara Duterte impeachment trial (16 Senate votes needed to convict)
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Tue 22 Sep
- UNGA General Debate opens; Saudi, Yemeni and Iranian leaders speak
- UNGA General Debate opens; Yemen on the agenda
- UNGA General Debate: Trump and Pezeshkian expected to speak
- UNGA high-level week; Iranian leadership speaks and diaspora protests are planned in New York
- Trump expected to meet Delcy Rodriguez informally on the UN General Assembly sidelines in New York (reported)