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Political and General News Events from July 24

Published 24/07/2019, 08:22 pm
Political and General News Events from July 24

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 ** CAIRO, Egypt - Interview with Israel's Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz on the sidelines of a regional gas forum in Cairo. ** PARIS, France - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova at the Elysee Palace in Paris, gives statement to media. - 1400 GMT

WASHINGTON D.C. - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan visits U.S and meet U.S president Donald Trump (Final Day).

CANBERRA - Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape to visit Australia (to July 26).

BAKU - 2019 Summer European Youth Olympics Festival (to July 27).

HANGZHOU, China - 3rd APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) meeting (to July 25).

HAVANA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in Cuba, meets Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez to discuss bilateral and regional agenda (Final Day).

MOSCOW - Belarusian Finance Minister Vladimir Makei and Economy Minister Dmitry Krutoi to visit Moscow - 0700 GMT BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 25 ** SUVA - New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will visit Fiji to attend the Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting on 26 July (to July 27).

BRASILIA - Brazil Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo and China Foreign Minister Wang Yi will address the press following a bilateral meeting in Brasilia ahead of a BRICS meeting in Rio de Janeiro. - 1400 GMT MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to discuss migration and development.

BRASILIA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Brazil (to July 26).

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

ANTALYA, Turkey - Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Turkey's Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan to hold the 16th intergovernmental committee for discussing cooperation in various areas. PARAMARIBO - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Suriname (to July 27).

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 TEHRAN - Oman Minister of Foreign Affairs Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah will visit Iran to discuss regional developments. 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 ** BEIJING - Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez will pay a state visit to China (to July 31).

GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.

GLOBAL – 105th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

PERU - 198th anniversary of Independence.

- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 29 CYPRUS - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Cyprus.

BANGKOK - Foreign ministers from Southeast and East Asian nations gather in Bangkok for the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, 20th ASEAN Plus Three, and the 9th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting (to Aug. 3). - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 ** WARSAW - Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will visit Warsaw for two days to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising (to August 1). ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with Russian delegation led by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Bangkok. - 0930 GMT ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with New Zealand delegation led by New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters. - 1045 GMT

BANGKOK - Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) joins in a plenary meeting during the regional ministerial meeting. - 0250 GMT. BANGKOK, Thailand - Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) joins in a retreat session during the regional ministerial meeting. - 0500 GMT. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. - 0400 GMT ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo. - 0630 GMT ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha. - 0900 GMT ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with European Union delegation, led by Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini - 0900 GMT

GLOBAL - World Breastfeeding Week (to Aug. 7). WARSAW - Poland marks 75th anniversary of its war-time Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation. CHINA – 92nd founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers hold meeting with Chinese, Japanese and South Korean counterparts. - 0200 GMT ** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers join their counterparts from eight dialogue partners including Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea, and the United States for an East Asia Summit meeting. - 0345 GMT ** BANGKOK - Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai holds a news conference after the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok concludes. - 1130 GMT

EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016 (to Aug 26). - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 ** BANGKOK - Foreign ministers from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam meet with their South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha at the 9th Mekong-South Korea Foreign Ministers Meeting. - 0200 GMT

** BANGKOK - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their Japanese counterpart at the 12th Mekong-Japan Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0315 GMT

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Commemorations 74th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 TOKYO, Japan - 2019 World Rowing Junior Championships (to August 11) - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 74th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug 26).

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MONDAY, AUGUST 12 GLOBAL - International Youth Day. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14 PAKISTAN – 72nd anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule. LEBANON - Hezbollah marks 13th anniversary of its "divine victory" - - the end of its war with Israel. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, AUGUST 15 JAPAN – 74th anniversary of country's surrender in World War Two. INDIA – 72nd anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule. LIECHTENSTEIN - 213th Anniversary of Independence. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 SANTIAGO – APEC Third Senior Officials' meeting and related meetings (to Aug 30). - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 19

SYDNEY - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape and oil executives address investment conference in Sydney - 2300 GMT. GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day. MOSCOW – 27th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 SYRIA – 6th anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighborhoods on the edge of Damascus. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 TRALEE, Ireland - 2019 Rose of Tralee International Festival (to August 27).

BALTIC WAY – 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24

POLAND - Poland marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989. UKRAINE – 28th Anniversary of Independence. WASHINGTON – 207th anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.

BIARRITZ - G7 summit, Biarritz, France meeting (to Aug 26).

- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day. PARIS – 75th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 VENICE, Italy – 2019 Venice International Film Festival (to September 7).

HELSINKI - EU Informal meeting of defence ministers (to August 29).

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Leaders of African nations and representatives of international organisations meet for the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 HELSINKI - EU informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers (to Aug. 30).

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 WARSAW – U.S President Donald Trump visits Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

WARSAW - Polish President Andrzej Duda and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier commemorate 80th anniversary of WWII start.

WARSAW - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Poland.

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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russia hosts Eastern Economic Forum which is traditionally attended by Asian leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin (to September 6). MAPUTO/ ANTANANARIVO/ PORT LOUIS - Pope Francis visits Mozambique, Madagscar and Mauritius (to September 10).

- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 HELSINKI - EU finance ministers meeting. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 NEW YORK, U.S. - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends U.N. General assembly in New York. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

RIYADH - Euromoney GCC Financial Forum 2019, finance conference with speakers including central bank governor, finance minister, senior bankers, CEOs of major corporates and banks.

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