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FRIDAY, JUNE 15 ** Addis Ababa - Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Ethiopia (to June 16).
** MOSCOW – Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov made a one-day working visit to Moscow at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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 (Final Day). SOFIA - Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov starts a two-day visit to Bulgaria (Final Day).
MALE - Mohamed Asim, minister of foreign affairs of Maldives, will visit Japan (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 (Final Day).
VILNIUS - King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands will pay a state visit to Lithuania at the invitation of President Dalia Grybauskaite (Final Day). DUBLIN - The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visit the Republic of Ireland (Final Day). BEIJING - Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit China (Final Day).
NAIROBI - Kenya hosts the fifth East Africa Oil and Gas Summit and Exhibition (Final Day).
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).
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
** WARSAW - First vice president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans to hold talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw. 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 ** BEIJING - Senegalese Foreign Minister Sidiki Kaba will pay an official visit to China (to June 22). PARIS/LONDON - Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha will officially vist France and the United Kingdom (to Jun. 26).
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
** LONDON - UK Prime Minister Theresa May welcomes Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on official visit – 1600 GMT.
** BEIJING - Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Neill will pay a visit to China (to June 26). 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 ** GENEVA, Switzerland - UK trade minister Liam Fox takes part in trade round table in Geneva – 1300 GMT.
** BRUSSELS - EU-Armenia Partnership Council meeting. 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 (to June 28).
TURKEY - Grand National Assembly of Turkey election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 25 ** LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. 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 ** BRUSSELS - Euro Summit. 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 ** BRUSSELS - EU-Ukraine summit. 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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FRIDAY, JULY 13 ** BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, JULY 14 PARIS - Bastille Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 16 ** BRUSSELS - EU-Foreign Affairs Council meeting. 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. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 24 ** BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -
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. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, JULY 30 ** Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean National Assembly election. ** Zimbabwe – President election.
** Comoros – Referendum election.
** Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean Senate election.
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