"international occasions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you might use it to refer to events such as holidays, cultural celebrations, or diplomatic meetings that are celebrated on an international scale. For example: "We look forward to celebrating the many international occasions that bring us together each year."
Russian diplomacy is not known for its finesse, and Russian presidents, like all leaders, play to their home gallery even on big international occasions.
Eventually the stadium had a capacity of 63,000 for national matches, and 59,000 for international occasions such as European Cup competitions.
May is fortunate that her first big international occasion is the G20.
"We express strong dissatisfaction with Japan's leader using an international occasion to maliciously slander China," Hong said in a statement seen on the ministry website on Sunday.
Paragons of the minor virtues have not always made very good Presidents: the uxorious Ford, for instance, and still poorer Jimmy Carter, doggedly holding his scrawny sexagenarian wife's hand on this or that ineptly-managed international occasion.
The diagramed deal, played on another international occasion in a match against Yugoslavia, shows some of the subtlety that has won him four world titles and the biggest collection of masterpoints.
This intense, derby-like international occasion is likely to be as good as it will get for O'Neill, unless he can haul Ireland to France, a scenario that would almost certainly now be by way of a play-off.
No doubt Coe will face plenty of challenges over the coming two years, and no doubt his performance will come under heavy scrutiny during the games themselves, but if he can somehow restore the equilibrium and make London 2012 an international occasion and not just a national one then he will surely earn some credit for those in search of the real Olympic spirit.
"It is a major national and international occasion with a lot of ceremony," he said.
In the face of international sanctions occasioned by its support of the rebels in eastern Ukraine and its earlier annexation of Crimea, Russia is preparing to pull inward.
These forces included militarism and mass mobilization, instability in domestic and international politics occasioned by rapid industrial growth, global imperialism, popular nationalism, and the rise of a social Darwinist worldview.
