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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 ** PRAGUE - Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini visits Czech Republic - 1200 GMT.
SEOUL - Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono visits South Korea and meets with South Korean President Moon Jae (Final day).
SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to Apr. 16). MALABO/ MBABANE/ LUSAKA - Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, will embark on a three-nation state visit to the African countries of Equatorial Guinea, Swaziland and Zambia (to April 12). BEIJING - Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh will visit to China and meets with Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang (to April 12).
MOSCOW - North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho will make a visit to Russia (Final day).
BEIJING - Papua New Guinea Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato visits China (to April 15).
NAIROBI - World Bank launches its latest economic update for Kenya.
BUENOS AIRES - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks at the Argentine Council for Foreign Relationships during his visit to Argentina - 1400 GMT.
AZERBAIJAN - Presidential Election.
TOKYO - Dasho Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, visits Japan and meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (to Apr 13).
LJUBLJANA - Slovenian Prime Minister MIro Cerar and European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will speak at the summit which takes place at Brdo pri Kranju. HONG KONG, China (PRC) - Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde delivers a speech in Hong Kong - 0530 GMT
FRANCE – 7th Anniversary of the French law banning the burqa and niqab. ABIDJAN – 7th Anniversary of the arrest of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by supporters of president-elect Alassane Ouattara with the help of French forces, thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war. PARIS - Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel gives a speech in Paris on fighting extremism - 0900 GMT. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, APRIL 12 ** OHRID, Macedonia - Greek Foreign minister Nikos Kotzias will meet with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Dimitrov in Ohrid.
DUBLIN - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas meets his Irish counterpart Simon Coveney in Dublin - 0800 GMT.
MADRID - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to meet Spanish King Felipe and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Madrid - 0930 GMT.
BRUSSELS - European Council President Donald Tusk meeting with Prime Minister of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini - 1330 GMT. LIMA - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross addresses the Americas Business Summit in Lima - 2330 GMT.
GLOBAL - International Day of Human Space Flight. OSWIECIM, Poland - Polish President Andrzej Duda and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will participate in the annual March of the Living in Auschwitz-Birkenau during which Jews from many countries and Poles will remember the victims of the Holocaust. HONG KONG, China - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to visit Hong Kong. LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 13 ** BRUSSELS - Foreign Minister of Germany Heiko Maas meets with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini - 1045 GMT.
DUSHANBE - North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho will visit Tajikistan (to Apr. 15).
HONG KONG, China (PRC) - Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon meets Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam. BEIJING - Papua New Guinea Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato meets his Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at Diaoyutai in Beijing. BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini meets New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters - 0800 GMT. GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to discuss bilateral relations, Europe, and economic issues - 1000 GMT. LIMA - U.S. President Donald Trump visits Lima for the Summit of the Americas (to Apr 14). LIMA - Inauguration of the VIII Summit of the Americas. Heads of State and Governments attend the inauguration followed by dinner hosted by Peru's President Miguel Vizcarra. - 2300 GMT.
MOSCOW - The Netherlands Foreign Minister Stef Blok meets with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, APRIL 15
GUATEMALA - Referendum Election.
MONTENEGRO - Presidential Election. BELFAST/NEW YORK – 106th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. BOGOTA - U.S. President Donald Trump to meet Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 16 NEW YORK, United States - United Nation Economic and Social Council, Substantive session, coordination and management meeting (to April 18) STOCKHOLM/LONDON – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Sweden and the United Kingdom for bilateral meetings with the two key European countries as well as two multilateral summits -- the India-Nordic Summit and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) (to April 20).
VATICAN CITY – 91st birthday of Pope Benedict. BOSTON - 2018 Boston Marathon. LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, APRIL 17 ZURICH - European Gold Forum meeting in Zurich (to Apr 19).
MBABANE - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to visit Swaziland (to April 21).
WASHINGTON D.C. - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to visit the United States (to April 20).
LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 19 WASHINGTON D.C. - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim holds a news conference ahead of the spring meeting of the IMF and World Bank - 1245 GMT. WASHINGTON D.C. - Ahead of the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the Group of 24 developing nations hold a news conference - 2115 GMT.
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FRIDAY APRIL 20
WASHINGTON D.C. - Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and IMF, Spring meetings (to April 22). BHUTAN - Bhutanese National Council election PARAGUAY – Presidential election
PARAGUAY - Paraguayan Chamber of Senators election PARAGUAY - Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies election
WASHINGTON, D.C. - 2018 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (to April 22). UNITED STATES - 8th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. WASHINGTON, D.C. - United Nations Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and IMF, Spring meetings (to Apr. 22).
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SATURDAY, APRIL 21 LONDON - Queen Elizabeth to celebrate her 92nd birthday. PARIS – 57th anniversary of the first manned mission to space. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 FRENCH POLYNESIA - Assembly of French Polynesia Election. GLOBAL - Earth Day. LONDON - 2018 London Marathon. TOKYO - Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of the Kingdom of Sweden will pay an Official Visit to Japan (to April 25).
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MONDAY, APRIL 23
RIGA - Norway Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit visit Latvia (to Apr 26).
NEW YORK – Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up, including the special high-level meetings of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, the World Trade Organization and UNCTAD (to April 27).
GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day. SHANGHAI - External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to China to attend the foreign ministers' meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (to Apr. 24).
WASHINGTON D.C. - French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the United States (to Apr. 25). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 24 LONDON - City Lecture with François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor, Bank of France. LONDON – Lunch discussion with François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor, Bank of France.
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FAROE ISLANDS - Referendum Election.
GLOBAL - World Malaria Day. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 27 SOFIA - Informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers (to Apr. 28). SOFIA - Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 28 GABON - Gabonese National Assembly election. PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania - 20th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 29 LONDON – 7th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 1 NEW YORK, United States – United Nation Economic and Social Council, Substantive session, integration segment (to May 3).
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 MANILA - ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting (to May. 4). - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 6 FRENCH POLYNESIA - Assembly of French Polynesia election LEBANON - Lebanese National Assembly election - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 12 TIMOR-LESTE - Timorese National Parliament election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 14 NEW YORK, United States – United Nation General Assembly, Intergovernmental conference to adopt a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration and its preparatory process (to May 18). NEW YORK, United States - United Nations High-level International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament (to May 16). BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, MAY 15 IRAQ - Iraqi council of representatives election.
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THURSDAY, MAY 17
BURUNDI - Referendum election. NEW YORK, United States - Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, United Nations Forum on the Question of Palestine,“70 Years after 1948 - Lessons to Achieve a Sustainable Peace” (to May 18). SOFIA - EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 18 NEW YORK, United States - Economic and Social Council, Special meeting of the Council on international cooperation in tax matters.
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