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FRIDAY, JUNE 8
** ANKARA - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin will make a working visit to Turkey (Final Day). ** LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May to argue for 'freer and fairer' trade at G7 meeting in London.
BEIJING - President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov visits China and attend the SCO summit in Qingdao (to June 10).
TAIPEI CITY - Swaziland King Mswati III is visiting Taiwan (to June 12). VEINNA - United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (Final Day). PAPUA NEW GUINEA – APEC Second Senior Finance Officials' Meeting (Final Day).
KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea - Second Senior Finance Officials' Meeting (Final Day).
QUEBEC, Canada - France President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Canada for a working visit and to attend the 2018 G7 Leaders' summit in Charlevoix, Quebec (to June 9).
SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2018 (to June 17).
PYONGYANG - Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan will visit North Korea (Final Day). BRUSSELS - NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels (Final Day).
QUEBEC CITY, Canada - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk hold bilateral meeting with new Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Canada – 1230 GMT. QUEBEC CITY, Canada - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk hold news conference ahead of the G7 summit in Canada - 1400 GMT. BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives news conference after first part, of the last day of a defence meeting in Belgium - 0915 GMT. KAMPALA - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visits Uganda (to June 9).
BEIJING - Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to pay a state visit to China and attend the Qingdao Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) (to June 10).
LONDON - British Defence Minister Gavin Williamson meets U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis for talks in London. SOFIA - Bulgaria will host a high-level conference dedicated to the EU Cohesion Policy after 2020 – 0600 GMT. OTTAWA - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a summit of leaders from the G7 leading industralised nations in the province of Quebec.
BEIJING - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a welcome ceremony hosted by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, followed by bilateral talks and signing ceremony in Beijing.
QUEBEC, Canada – G7 Summit (to June 9).
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SATURDAY, JUNE 9 ** QINGDAO, China - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday on the sidelines of the SCO Summit. QINGDAO, China - Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi arrive in China's northern port city of Qingdao for the 18th SCO summit. Hassan Rouhani, president of SCO observer member Iran, is also expected to attend (to June 10). - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JUNE 10 ** Switzerland - Referendum election. ** BEIJING - Ghana's Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey will pay an official visit to China (to June 15).
JERUSALEM - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will visit Israel (to June 12).
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MONDAY, JUNE 11 ** TOKYO - New Zealand Trade Minister David Parker, Mexico Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo speak at Nikkei forum in Tokyo. ** STOCKHOLM - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visits Sweden, meets his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallstrom for talks set to focus on EU cooperation and security agenda. BEIJING - Ghanaian Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway will meet Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing - 0330 GMT. BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Labour Organization and the OECD for talks in Berlin before they hold a joint news conference – 1500 GMT.
TOKYO - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad talks at an international conference on the Future of Asia in Japan (to June 12). BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the Normandy Four countries namely Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia have agreed on a meeting of their foreign ministers.
RIGA - Netherland King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will visit to Latvia (to June 12). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 12 BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz in Germany. 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 June 13). GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour ILO . - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
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 June 15). - - - - - - - - -
THURSDAY, JUNE 14 ** NAIROBI - Kenya hosts the fifth East Africa Oil and Gas Summit and Exhibition (to June 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 June 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
** 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 June 16). GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). - - - - - - - - -
SATURDAY, JUNE 16
SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2018 (to June 25). - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JUNE 17
** Colombia - Presidential election. GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. - - - - - - - - -
MONDAY, JUNE 18 GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Thirty-eighth session (to July 6). - - - - - - - - -
TUESDAY, JUNE 19
BEIJING – Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is set to visit China (to June 23). - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
** 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
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
VIENNA - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ministers meet in Austria. LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 23
** MOSCOW - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin (to June 25). - - - - - - - - - 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 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 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. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 28 BRUSSLES - European Council meets (to June 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. - - - - - - - - -
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25
** Pakistan - Pakistani National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - -
SUNDAY, JULY 29
** Cambodia - Cambodian National Assembly election.
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