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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ---------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, APRIL 3 ** TOKYO - UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. GENEVA - United Nations Human Rights Committee, 122nd session (to Apr. 6).
BEIJING - Namibian President Hage Geingob will visit China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping (Final Day). BEIJING - Swiss Federal Councillor and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis will visit China at the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (to Apr. 4). BEIJING - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will visit China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping (to Apr. 6). BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis hold a meeting and joint briefing in Beijing. - 0230 GMT ANKARA - Meeting of the Russian-Turkish High Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) involving Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 ** BAKU - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit Azerbaijan (to April 6).
** SOFIA - Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic to visit to Bulgaria to speak with her Bulgarian counterpart Rumen Radev. ** TOKYO - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to visit Japan and meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. BEIJING - Zimbabwe new President Emmerson Mnangagwa meets Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing. - 0800 GMT BRISBANE, Australia - The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visit Australia and attend opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. MOSCOW - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi begins his two day visit to Russia and to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (to Apr. 5). ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Istanbul to discuss developments in Syria.
GLOBAL - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, APRIL 5 ** SINGAPORE - 8th World Bank-Singapore Infrastructure Finance Summit. BRISBANE , Australia - The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall meet with the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Governor General Peter Cosgrove during their Australian visit. AUGUSTA, United States - U.S. Masters Golf 2016 (to Apr. 8). SINGAPORE - 22nd ASEAN Finance Ministers' Meeting (to Apr. 6). - - - - - - - - -
FRIDAY, APRIL 6 NEW DELHI - Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to visit India (to April 8).
SINGAPORE - Singapore Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat to deliver opening remarks at the ASEAN Finance Ministers' meeting. - 0130 GMT KABUL - Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to visit Afghanistan, where he is expected to hold a joint news conference with President Ashraf Ghani. SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to Apr. 16). - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 GLOBAL - World Health Organisation observes World Health Day. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, APRIL 8 ** BEIJING - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen will meet Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at Diaoyutai, and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People - 0830 GMT. WASHINGTON/MOSCOW - 8th anniversary of signing a new bilateral treaty between the Russia and United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, START-2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). GLOBAL - International Roma Nation Day.
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MONDAY, APRIL 9 WARSAW - European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans will come to Warsaw on April 9 for talks on the rule of law.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 10 ** BEIJING - Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to visit the Forbidden City. SMOLENSK, Russia/CRACOW, Poland - 8th Anniversary of the Smolensk Tragedy to be held in Smolensk, Russia, as well as in Poland.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12 ** 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 15 ** BOGOTA - U.S. President Donald Trump to meet Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 16 LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 17 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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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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SUNDAY, APRIL 22 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 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). - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 27 ** SOFIA - Informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers (to Apr. 28). SOFIA - Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 ** MANILA - ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting (to May. 4). - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 14 ** BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 17 ** SOFIA - EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 24 ** BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 25 ** BRUSSELS - Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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