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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, JUNE 12 ** BEIJING - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi - 0300 GMT. ** KUWAIT CITY - Jordanian King Abdullah II visits Kuwait. ** BRUSSELS - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte addresses the European Parliament ** BUDAPEST - Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will hold a joint presser. Topics expected include regional and Visegrád Four (V4) issues - 1000 GMT. IZMIR, Turkey - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov meets Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in western province of Izmir - 0700 GMT. TOKYO – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad visits Japan (Final Day).
TAIPEI CITY - Swaziland King Mswati III is visiting Taiwan (Final Day).
SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2018 (to Jun. 17). BEIJING - Ghana's Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey will pay an official visit to China (to Jun. 15).
JERUSALEM - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will visit Israel (Final Day).
TOKYO - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad talks at an international conference on the Future of Asia in Japan (Final Day).
RIGA - Netherland King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will visit to Latvia (Final Day). JERUSALEM - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz visits Israel. BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz in Germany - 1615 GMT. BERLIN - OECD Economic Surveys: Germany 2018. SINGAPORE - U.S. President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore – 0100 GMT. PARIS - Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Industry & Trade Minister Denis Manturov are attending Expo 2025 conference in Paris (to Jun. 13). GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour ILO . - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 ** SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits South Korea and meets with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha - 0900 GMT. ** BELGRADE – Poland Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz visits Serbia.
BRUSSELS - Greece Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Labour Minister Effie Achtsioglou speak at a conference in Brussels - 0700 GMT. BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel - 1500 GMT. MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias in Moscow.
VILNIUS - King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands will pay a state visit to Lithuania at the invitation of President Dalia Grybauskaite (to Jun. 15). - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, JUNE 14 ** WASHINGTON D.C. - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland receives the Diplomat of the Year Award from Foreign Policy magazine - 0015 GMT. ** SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha to hold trilateral meeting in Seoul after the U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore - 0100 GMT. BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with premiers of federal states. Topics of discussion include asylum and refugee policy, the upcoming European Union summit, digitalisation and the shift to renewable energy as well as protection from flooding. Merkel will give a press conference afterwards - 1300 GMT. NAIROBI - Kenya hosts the fifth East Africa Oil and Gas Summit and Exhibition (to Jun. 15).
BEIJING - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Beijing after Trump-Kim summit.
BANGKOK - A series of meetings will take place in Bangkok from June 14-16 under the ACMECS or the ""Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy,"" starting with a business forum on 14th, CEO meeting on 15th, and summit on the 16th, which will be attended by president of Myanmar, prime Ministers of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand (to Jun. 16).
GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.
GAZA - 11th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.
COOK ISLANDS - Cook Islands Parliament election.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15 ** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the Elysee Palace - 1300 GMT. BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg - 1215 GMT.
OSLO - Britain's Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox visits Norway. BARILOCHE, Argentina - G20 Energy ministers gather in the South of Argentina to discuss energy challenges and businesses in Argentina (to Jun. 16). GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, JUNE 16
SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2018 (to Jun. 25). - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JUNE 17
Colombia - Presidential election. GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, JUNE 18 ** BEIJING - Bolivian President Juan Evo Morales Ayma will pay a state visit to China (to Jun. 20).
GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Thirty-eighth session (to Jul. 6). - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, JUNE 19 ** PARIS/LONDON - Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha will officially vist France and the United Kingdom (to Jun. 26).
BEIJING – Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is set to visit China (to Jun. 23). - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
NAIROBI - Kenya hosts the fifth East Africa Oil and Gas Summit (to Jun. 21).
GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21 MOSCOW - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin (to Jun. 23).
SOFIA - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and Energy Minister Temenuizhka Petkova will attend an economic forum in the city of Plovdiv to discuss regional political and energy perspectives in Bulgaria (to Jun. 22). LUXEMBOURG CITY – Eurogroup meeting. GENEVA - Pope Francis pays a one-day visit to Geneva. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 22
VIENNA - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ministers meet in Austria. LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JUNE 24 BERLIN - 70th 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.
JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH – Prince William will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah when he becomes the first senior member of Britain's royal family.
TURKEY - Grand National Assembly of Turkey election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 25 LOS ANGELES - 9th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson.
VIENNA – IAEA International Symposium on Uranium Raw Material for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Exploration, Mining, Production, Supply and Demand, Economics and Environmental Issues (to Jun. 29).
GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional Working Group on Communications, 123rd session (to Jun. 29).
LUXEMBOURG CITY - EU Foreign Affairs Council meets. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 26 COPENHAGEN - Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to visit Denmark (to Jun. 27).
GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
LUXEMBOURG CITY - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 28 BRUSSLES - European Council meets (to Jun. 29).
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FRIDAY, JUNE 29
PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 16th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.
BEJING/TAIPEI - 8th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.
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SUNDAY, JULY 1
Mexico - Mexican Chamber of Deputies election.
Mexico – Presidential election.
Mexico – Mexican Senate election. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, JULY 2 ** GLOBAL - World UFO day on anniversary of the Roswell incident. ** SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena". - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 ** UNITED STATES - Independence Day. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 7 ** GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives. ** KATHMANDU - 71st birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra. ** LONDON - 13th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, killing more than 50 and injuring 700. ** VIENNA – IAEA International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Forensics: Countering the Evolving Threat of Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material out of Regulatory Control (to Jul. 10). - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 9 ** TEHRAN - 19th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999. ** JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks 13th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal. ** SOUTH SUDAN – 6th Anniversary of South Sudan becoming an independent state. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 11 ** GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day. ** MUMBAI - 11th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
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- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 16 ** HAMPSHIRE - Farnborough Air Show 2018 (to Jul. 22). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 17 ** GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 18 ** GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 20 ** CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 21 ** KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 7th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 22 ** OSLO – 6th Anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 ** BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2017 (to Aug. 29).
Pakistan - Pakistani National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 28 ** GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day. ** GLOBAL – 104th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. ** PERU - 197th Anniversary of Independence. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JULY 29
Cambodia - Cambodian National Assembly election.
Mali - Presidential election. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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