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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
** SARANSK, Russia - Japan Princess Takamado visits Saransk's cathedral and holds a news conference a day after Japan beat Colombia 2-1 in their opening World Cup match - 0700 GMT. ** MOSCOW - Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa visits Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin - 1000 GMT. ** DUSHANBE - Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain participates in the High-Level International Conference on International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018-2028.
** MOSCOW - Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland will pay a working visit to Russia (to June 21).
** VIENTIANE - Vietnamese Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh pays official visit to Laos (to June 22).
BEIJING - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make a two-day visit to Beijing (Final Day). VIENNA - Dharmendra Pradhan, Indian minister of petroleum and natural gas and skill development and entrepreneurship, will participate in the 7th OPEC International Seminar organised by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria (Final Day).
ROME/ PARIS/ BRUSSELS - Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visits Italy, France, Luxembourg and Belgium (to June 23).
ATEHNS/ PARAMARIBO/ HAVANA - Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Greece, Suriname and Cuba (to June 22).
SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2018 (to June 25).
BEIJING - Bolivian President Juan Evo Morales Ayma will pay a state visit to China (Final Day). GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Thirty-eighth session (to July 6). 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 June 26).
BEIJING – Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is set to visit China (to June 23).
VIENNA - OPEC to hold 7th International Seminar in Vienna (to June 21).
BRUSSELS - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe meets EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss current European affairs and French governments reforms - 1030 GMT. BEIJING - Senegal Foreign Minister Sidiki Kaba meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the ministry of foreign affairs in Beijing - 1030 GMT.
AMMAN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will arrive in Amman, where she is expected to meet with King Andullah.
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 June 21).
GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21
** HUNGARY - Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Four group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to hold a joint news conference - 1300 GMT. ** MOSCOW - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and to attend an event which marks the UN's 70 years presence in Russia - 1530 GMT. ** GLOBAL - International Yoga Day.
BERLIN - Dharmendra Pradhan, Indian minister of petroleum and natural gas and skill development and entrepreneurship, will visit Germany (to June 22).
BEIJING - Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelson meets his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing - 0330 GMT.
MINSK - European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn and European Commissioner for Digital Economy mariya Gabriel visits Belarus (to June 22).
AMMAN - German Chancellor Angelia Merkel will visit the Jordan-Germany university, where she is expected to meet with a number of students. Later in the day, the German official will have a meeting with King Abdullah. LONDON - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivers pre-summit address in London. DUBLIN - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to address the Irish parliament during a visit to Dublin - 1045 GMT. GENEVA, Switzerland - Pope Francis holds meeting at the World council of Churches, gives speech - 1530 GMT.
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 - 1800 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 June 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 June 22). LUXEMBOURG CITY – Eurogroup meeting. GENEVA - Pope Francis pays a one-day visit to Geneva. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 22 WELLINGTON - European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom visits Auckland, New Zealand as the EU launches free trade negotiations with New Zealand. TARTU, Estonia - President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, President of Iceland Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson, President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Latvia Raimonds Vejonis, President of Poland Andrzej Duda and President of Finland Sauli Niinisto will participate in the Estonia 100 celebration in Tartu - 1000 GMT.
VIENNA - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ministers meet in Austria. LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 23 PARIS - New Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez travels to Paris for talks with Emmanuel Macron on migration and euro zone reforms ahead of a European Union leaders' summit later this month.
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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
BEIJING - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe meets Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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 June 29).
GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional Working Group on Communications, 123rd session (to June 29).
LUXEMBOURG CITY - EU Foreign Affairs Council meets. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 26
DUBLIN - IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde visits Dublin - 1030 GMT.
VATICAN CITY - French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican. COPENHAGEN - Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to visit Denmark (to June 27).
GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
LUXEMBOURG CITY - EU General Affairs Council meeting. WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump and Portuguese President Rebelo de Sousa meet at the White House (to June 27). - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 28
PRAGUE - Seminar ""Global and Regional Economic Developments and IMF Policy Response", with opening speech from CNB Vice-Governor Vladimir Tomsik; participants include IMF Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa and IMF Director, European Department, Poul Thomsen.
BRUSSELS - Chairman of EU summit Donald Tusk ad European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker hold a news conference after the first working session of the meeting - 1700 GMT.
BRUSSLES - European Council meets (to June 29).
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FRIDAY, JUNE 29
BRUSSELS - Chairman of EU leaders Donald Tusk and head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker hold news conference after the second day of talks, on Brexit and on deepening euro zone economic integration - 1130 GMT.
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
** NOUAKCHOTT/LAGOS, Nigeria - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Nouakchott in Mauritania and Abuja and Lagos in Nigeria (to July 3).
ZURICH - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will pay an official visit to Switzerland to meet with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, among other Swiss officials. Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will also attend (to July 3).
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 July 10). - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 9
** NEW YORK – United Nations high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council meeting (to July 13). 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.
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** NEW YORK - United Nations Economic and Social Council, Substantive session, high-level segment, including the three-day ministerial meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Council meeting (to July 19).
BRUSSELS - EU-Foreign Affairs Council meeting. HAMPSHIRE - Farnborough Air Show 2018 (to July 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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