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DIARY-Political and General News Events from May 30

Published 30/05/2018, 11:18 pm
DIARY-Political and General News Events from May 30
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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MAY 30

** RIYADH – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri visits for Saudi Arabia (to Jun 01).

** STRASBOURG, France - Juan Manuel Santos, President of the Republic of Colombia at the European Parliament - 1000 GMT. ** CARACAS - Cuba's new president, Miguel Diaz-Cabel, will visit Venezuela for the first time. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza will welcome him at Caracas's airport - 1230 GMT. TAIPEI CITY - Haitian President Jovenel Moise and his delegation are to be welcomed by Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen, as part of a five-day state visit (to Jun 02). TOKYO - Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang and his wife Nguyen Thi Hien visit to Japan, meet Emperor and Empress of Japan. Prime Minister Abe holds a meeting with the President (to June 2).

KIEV - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Ukraine (Final Day). BEIJING – Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni Mamani will pay an official visit to China (Final Day). NEW YORK – United Nations Meeting of the Chairs of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies, Thirtieth Session (to June 1).

TOKYO - Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang and his wife Nguyen Thi Hien will make a visit to Japan for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Emperor Akihito (to June 2). JAKARTA - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Indonesia (to May 31).

PARIS - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Forum 2018 (Final Day). VIENNA - Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will receive Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on his visit to Vienna - 1030 GMT

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov during the working visit to Russia.

PORTUGAL - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Portugal for two day visit, during which she visits a Bosch factory and meets with president and Prime Minister Antonio Costa (to May 31).

TBILISI - Armen Sargsyan President of Armenia and Nikol Pashinyan the Armenian Prime Minister will visit Georgia (to May 31). PARIS, France - French president Emmanuel Macron gives a speech at the OECD ministerial council meeting on "Refounding Multilateralism".

WHISTLER, Canada - G7 finance and development ministers, as well as central bank governors will meet on the theme of "Investing in Growth that Works for Everyone" (to Jun. 2).

MIAMI, FL - Miami Beach International Fashion Week (to Jun. 3). - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, MAY 31 ** KUALA LUMPUR - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to meet newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in a brief stopover in Malaysia during his visit to the South East Asian region. ** SWEDEN - Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will participate in a panel discussion during the conference "Interaction of fiscal and monetary policies", arranged by the National Bank of Ukraine - 1230 GMT.

ALMATY - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to visit Tajikistan, attend meeting of CIS government heads (to June 1).

SINGAPORE – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Singapore (to June 02).

PYONGYANG – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit North Korea.

GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 1 BRUSSELS - Belarussian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei meets his Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders - 1100 GMT.

UNITED NATIONS - Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia to hold news conference as Russia assumes U.N. Security Council presidency for June.

KATHMANDU - 17th anniversary of Nepal King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family assassinated by Crown Prince in royal family massacre.

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** GWANDA - Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa will visit Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 3 SEOUL - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will make his first visit to South Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Rodrigo Duterte will have a summit on June 4. (to Jun 5).

SLOVENIA - Slovenian National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 4 ** VIENNA - EU strategic talk with Kneissl, Asselborn, Karas, Kwasniewski - 0730 GMT.

** SYDNEY - Emirates president Tim Clark speaks at a media roundtable - 2130 GMT.

WASHINGTON – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington. VEINNA - United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (to Jun 8).

LUXEMBOURG – EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting (to Jun 5).

HONOLULU – Japan Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko to visit Hawaii (to June 7).

CHILE – 7th anniversary of Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia. HONG KONG - Tens of thousands attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square (NYSE:SQ) crackdown in Beijing. JOHANNESBURG - BRICS Foreign Ministers meets ahead of annual summit (to Jun. 5). SINGAPORE - 34th High Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration (HLTF– EI) (to Jun. 5). SINGAPORE - ASEAN SOM, ASEAN Plus Three (APT) SOM, East Asia Summit (EAS) SOM, and ASEAN Regional Forum SOM (to Jun. 7).

JOHANNESBURG - Foreign ministers of the BRICS group of emerging economies meet ahead of the July 25-27 main summit (to Jun. 5).

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TUESDAY, JUNE 5

** BRUSSELS - The President of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, economics commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis and Pierre Moscovici, the head of the eurogroup of eurozone finace ministers Mario Centeno and the Executive Chairman of Spain's Santander (MC:SAN) Ana Botin speak at the annual Brussels Economic Forum.

GLOBAL - World Environment Day.

VIENNA - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Austria.

KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea - Second Senior Finance Officials' Meeting (to Jun. 8).

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** SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2018 (to June 17). ** SEOUL - South Korea marks the 63th anniversary of Memorial Day.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 7 ** WASHINGTON D.C - U.S. President Donald Trump to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House, according to White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. ** BRUSSELS - NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 8

BEIJING - Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to China (to Jun 10).

QUEBEC, Canada – G7 Summit (to June 9).

CHARLEVOIX, Canada - Canada will host the G7 meeting in Charlevoix (to Jun. 9). - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 11 RIGA - Netherland King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will visit to Latvia (to Jun. 12). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 12 ** GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour ILO .

SINGAPORE - U.S. President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 14 ** 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

** GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 16

** SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2018 (to June 25). - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 17

** GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 18 GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Thirty-eighth session (to Jul 6). - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 19

BEIJING – Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is set to visit China (to June 23). - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20

** GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21 LUXEMBOURG CITY – Eurogroup meeting. GENEVA - Pope Francis pays a one-day visit to Geneva. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 22

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 June 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 ** 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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