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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, JUNE 14 ** BERLIN - Italian Economy Minister Giovanni Tria meets German counterpart Olaf Scholz in Berlin - 0630 GMT. ** ATHENS - EU Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis to meet Greece's prime minister, central bank governor and finance minister during a two-day visit to Athens (to Jun. 15). ** BANGKOK - Myanmar President Win Myint meets with Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. Both leaders are to hold a joint news conference afterwards - 1000 GMT. ** MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet several leaders, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the leaders of Paraguay, Panama and Kyrgyzstan. ** MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin meets North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho. ** SOFIA - Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov starts a two-day visit to Bulgaria (to Jun. 15). TBILISI, KUTAISI - Montenegro Minister of Foreign Affairs Srdjan Darmanovic will pay an official visit to Georgia (Final Day).
MALE - Mohamed Asim, minister of foreign affairs of Maldives, will visit Japan (to Jun. 15).
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).
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). BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Maas meets his Macedonian countepart Nikola Dimitrov. MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez meets his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar in Madrid - 1100 GMT. SEOUL - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul - 0800 GMT. SEOUL - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul - 0000 GMT. PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov meets Palestinian counterpart Rami Hamdallah in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss bilateral relations - 0630 GMT. DUBLIN - The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visit the Republic of Ireland (to Jun. 15). BEIJING - Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit China (to Jun. 15).
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 and meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing followed by a joint news conference - 1030 GMT.
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 BEIJING - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Beijing - 1000 GMT. OSLO - Britain Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox to meet Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide in Oslo. NEW ORLEANS, United States - Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia welcomed to New Orleans at Gallier Hall and visit the Cabildo and St Louis Cathedral. 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 ** MOSCOW - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Moscow on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the United Nations' work in Russia (to June 21).
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 ** LONDON - United Kingdom Finance Minister Philip Hammond and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney make their annual Mansion House speeches at a dinner hosted by the Lord Mayor of the City of London - 0600 GMT. ** BEIJING - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill meets Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing - 0800 GMT. ** BEIJING - Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen will pay an official visit to China (to June 22). 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 ** VATICAN CITY - French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican. 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. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 ** WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump and Portuguese President Rebelo de Sousa meet at the White House. - - - - - - - - - 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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