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THURSDAY, JUNE 20 ** CARACAS - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is on an official visit to Venezuela (to June 21). ** TAPACHULA, Mexico - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and El Salvador's Nayib Bukele meet in Tapachula to sign an agreement regarding migration. ** BRUSSELS - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis meets EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels amid a row over the use of EU funds by companies linked to Babis. SHANGHAI – 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival 2019 (to June 24). BEIJING - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid Mualem will visit China (to June 21). BEIJING - UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces will visit China (Final Day).
BERLIN, Germany - German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier will visit China (to June 21). PARIS - Aerospace Meetings PARIS 2019 (Final Day). BEIJING - Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok will pay a visit to China (to June 22)
** TEHRAN - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to visit Iran and participate in the first meeting of joint economic commission of the two countries, which will be held on June 21. BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk to appear at a news conference after the first day of a meeting of European Union leaders.
PYONGYANG - Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (to June 21). SINGAPORE - Jordan's King Abdullah meets Singapore's President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and sign a Memorandum of Understanding.
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attends a two-day EU summit amid growing tensions with Brussels over Rome's soaring public debt
SINGAPORE - Jordan's King Abdullah delivers a keynote address at the International Conference on Cohesive Societies before visiting Singapore leaders. - 0200 GMT
WASHINGTON DC - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.
DORTMUND, Germany - Germany President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers a speech at the 37th German Evangelical Church Day. - 0900 GMT BANGKOK - ASEAN senior officials' meeting (to June 23). GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.
PERTH - Bill Johnston, Western Australia's minister for mines, will meet Hon Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia's energy minister, in Perth.
BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to June 21). BANGKOK - ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (to June 23). BANGKOK - 34th ASEAN Summit (to June 23)
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FRIDAY, JUNE 21 BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis appear at a news conference at the end of a European Union leaders summit - 1030 GMT
NAPLES, Italy - Pope Francis will visit Naples and deliver speech at university - 0900 GMT GENEVA, Switzerland - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses ILO's conference as annual meeting closes.
BRUSSELS - EU leaders meet in Brussels for European Council Summit. MINSK - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit Belarus for the opening ceremony of the 2nd European Games in Minsk.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 22 BANGKOK - Foreign Ministers of ASEAN members countries meet in Bangkok ahead of a leaders' summit. - 0200 GMT
BANGKOK - Leaders from 10 South-East Asian countries hold 34th ASEAN Summit plenary session - 1000 GMT
MAURITANIA - President election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 23 ISLAMABAD - Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani to visit Pakistan. BANGKOK - Thailand Prime Minister, Prayuth Chan-cha chairman of 34th ASEAN Summit hold a press conference - 0630 GMT BANGKOK - 12th Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand growth triangle summit (12th IMT-GT Summit) - 0745 GMT
LISBON, Portugal - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gives closing remarks during a two-day conference in Lisbon dedicated to youth-related issues.
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MONDAY, JUNE 24 ** PARIS, France - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe meets Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev.
NEW DELHI/COLOMBO/TOKYO/SEOUL - US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will embark on a four-nation visit to India, Sri Lanka, Japan and South Korea (to June 30).
BERLIN – 71st anniversary of beginning of The Berlin Blockade. Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organize a massive airlift.
WELLINGTON - Launch of OECD Economic Surveys: New Zealand 2019.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 25 BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference ahead of defence ministers' meeting - 0830 GMT.
NEW DELHI - US secretary of state Mike Pompeo visits India and meets Indian Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar (to June 26).
LOS ANGELES - 10th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. LUXEMBOURG - General Affairs Council (Cohesion) meeting.
VIENNA - 176th Meeting of the OPEC Conference. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26
BRUSSELS - Defence ministers from the 29 allied governments of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meet in Brussels to discuss policy (to June 27) TOKYO - French President Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte visit Japan ahead of the G20 summit (to June 27) GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
VIENNA - 6th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 28 OSAKA, Japan - G20 summit (to June 29). - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, JUNE 29
PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 17th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.
BEJING/TAIPEI - 9th anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.
OSAKA, Japan - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka.
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DALIAN, China (Mainland) - The World Economic Forum will be held in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian (to July 3).
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TUESDAY, JULY 2
** VIENNA - 6th OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting
TORONTO, Canada - Foreign Ministers from several states to include, EU, G7, and NATO will meet in Toronto for the third Ukraine Reform Conference (to July 4).
GLOBAL - World UFO day on anniversary of the Roswell incident.
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THURSDAY, JULY 4
VATICAN CITY - Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican.
UNITED STATES - Independence Day.
PARIS - G7 development and education ministers meet in France ahead of August summit.
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Friday, JULY 5
SONKAJARVI - Wife-Carrying World Championship 2019 (to July 6).
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SATURDAY, JULY 6
LIMA - Lima hosts 14th Pacific Alliance Summit. GLOBAL – 2019 International Day of Cooperatives. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JULY 7
KATHMANDU – 72nd birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.
LONDON - 14th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, killing more than 50 and injuring 700. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, JULY 8 KYIV- EU-Ukraine summit. BRUSSELS - Eurogroup meeting.
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TUESDAY, JULY 9 HIGH TATRAS, Slovakia - Foreign ministers of OSCE members hold informal meeting.
BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, confer at the White House. TEHRAN - 20th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999.
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks the 14th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 LONDON - British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland host a two-day conference in London about media freedom around the world (to July 11).
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THURSDAY, JULY 11 GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.
MUMBAI - 12th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
VIENNA - Launch of OECD Economic Surveys: Austria 2019. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JULY 14
PARIS - Bastille Day. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, JULY 15
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17
CHANTILLY, France - The G7 countries' finance ministers and central bank governors will meet in Chantilly, France (to July 18). GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, JULY 18
BUENOS AIRES - Buenos Aires hosts the hemispheric anti-terrorism summit with the attendance of US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in Argentina (to July 19). GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day. - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, JULY 20
CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JULY 21
BAKU - 2019 Summer European Youth Olympics Festival (to July 27). - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, JULY 22
HANGZHOU, China - 3rd APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) meeting (to July 25).
OSLO – 8th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 23 BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, JULY 25
SANTIAGO - Finance ministers from APEC countries meet ahead of presidential summit (to July 26). BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2019 (to Aug 28). - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, JULY 26
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Foreign ministers of China, Russia, India, Brazil and South African meet in Rio to prepare for the November presidential summit in Brasilia. - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, JULY 27 BANGKOK - ASEAN senior officials' meeting (to Aug 3).
BANGKOK - 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (to Aug 3).
BANGKOK - 20th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers Meeting (to Aug 3).
BANGKOK - 9th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting (to Aug 3). - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JULY 28
GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.
GLOBAL – 105th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.
PERU - 198th anniversary of Independence.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 24
BIARRITZ - G7 summit, Biarritz, France meeting (to Aug 26).
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 YOKOHAMA, Japan - Leaders of African nations and representatives of international organisations meet for the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan.
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