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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MAY 3** LIMA - Japan's Foreign Minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, in official visit to Peru to mark the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
** NAIROBI - Kenya's President William Ruto will on Wednesday hold a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Nairobi. - 0630 GMT
** LONDON - Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah, XVI Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Her Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda the Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah Binti Almarhum Al-Mutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al- Haj will undertake a Special Visit to London, United Kingdom (To May 14)
CHISINAU - Minister of National Defence, Angel Tilvar, pays an official visit to the Republic of Moldova (final day)
NAYPYIDAW/ NEW DELHI - Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Myanmar and India (till May 5).
WELLINGTON - Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir will undertake a working visit to New Zealand (till May 4)
WASHINGTON DC - Bongbong Marcos President of the Philippines arrives in the United States for a 5-day official visit (To May 4)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Burak Akçapar will pay a working visit to Addis Ababa (To May 4)
MALE - Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defence of India, will embark on an official 3-day visit to the Maldives (final day)
RIYADH - Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan will pay official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (final day) BERLIN - President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a visit to Germany (final day)
MADRID - President of the Republic of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, will pay a State visit to Spain (till May 5) LONDON - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to the United Kingdom (till May 6) WASHINGTON DC - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. meets with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and business leaders on third day of U.S. trip. DAMASCUS - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Syria and will hold talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad (till May 4). MADRID - Colombia's President Gustavo Petro is received with military honours at Royal Palace by Spain's Royals King Felipe and Queen Letizia ahead of state visit. - 0900 GMT BERLIN - German President Frank Walter Steinmeier receives Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Berlin. - 0800 GMT ASTANA - President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan. (till May 4)
BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Moritz Schularick, speak about new business models for the German economy - 1500 GMT. GLOBAL - World Press Freedom Day
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 4** LONDON - Halimah Yacob President of Singapore will visit London, United Kingdom (To May 7)
** LONDON - Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh will make an official visit to the United Kingdom (UK) (To May 10)
** SANTIAGO - Japan Foreign Minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, in official visit to Chile where he will meet with Chile Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren.
** PRAGUE - Armenian Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan visits Prague, meets his Czech counterpart, Prime Minister Petr Fiala. A joint news conference due - 1100
** NEW YORK, United States - Swiss Foreign minister Cassis will chair the U.N. Security Council as Switzerland will hold the Presidency for May PHNOM PENH - Thongloun Sisoulith President of Laos will pay a state visit to Cambodia (till May 6)
MANAMA - Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan will pay official visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain (till May 5)
MADRID - President of Colombia Gustavo Petro takes part in Spanish-Colombian business meeting organized by the Spanish Confederation of Business, CEOE - 0745 GMT BRUSSELS - Brussels Economic Forum "Building a new competitive model for Europe" - EU conference with speakers including Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, Spanish economy minister Nadia Calvino, Eurogroup president Pascal Donohoe and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis - 0900 GMT MADRID - Spain´s prime minister Pedro Sanchez meets president of Colombia Gustavo Petro to attend the bilateral summit Spain-Colombia - 1030 GMT GOA, India - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov joins the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Goa, India. (till May 5) GOA, India - Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) foreign ministers meeting in India. (till May 5) GOA, India - The foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, comprising China, Russia, India and other central Asian countries, meet in Goa. (till May 5) BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of health ministers. (till May 5)
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 5
** LONDON - Jagdeep Dhankhar Vice President of India will be visiting London, United Kingdom (UK) (To May 6)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 6ISLAMABAD - Taliban’s foreign minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi to travel to Islamabad to meet Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang (till May 9)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 7SEOUL - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits South Korea for a summit with President Yoon Suk Yeol (till May 8)
MONDAY, MAY 8
MOSCOW - Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov will make an official visit to Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
GLOBAL - World Red Cross Red and Crescent Day. BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner gives a keynote address at a conference for German tax advisers - 1315 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 9BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the European Parliament. LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom - 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. (till May 13) LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - 42nd ASEAN Summit. (to May 11) LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting. (till May 11)
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** MOSCOW - A meeting of Turkish, Syrian and Russian foreign ministers could be held in Moscow.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 11LONDON - Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema, AfCFTA Secretary General Wamkele Mene and some other business leaders are speaking at the Africa Debate conference in London. NIIGATA, Japan - G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Niigata. (till May 13) BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich. (till May 12)
INDONESIA - Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in the first summit of the year in Indonesia.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 12GLOBAL - International Nurse's Day KORNIK, Poland - European affairs ministers of Poland, France and Germany and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Olha Stefanishyna, are due to meet in Kornik, Western Poland. STOCKHOLM - EU foreign ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 13** BERLIN - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make an official visit to Berlin and Aachen (To May 14)
NIIGATA, Japan - G7 finance minsters' meeting host country Japan holds conclusion news conference. STOCKHOLM - Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom and the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell jointly host the "EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum" in Stockholm within the framework of the Swedish EU presidency. MAURITANIA - Mauritanian National Assembly Election
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 14GERMANY - The German state of Bremen holds elections.
THAILAND - Thailand holds a general election. TURKEY - Grand National Assembly of Turkey Election. TURKEY - Presidency of Turkey Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 15COPENHAGEN - Czech President Petr Pavel hosts press conference at Global Democracy Summit in Copenhagen - 1300 GMT. GLOBAL - U.N. International Day of Families. BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 16LISBON – 11th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders. BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 17GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 18GLOBAL - International Museum Day
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 19HIROSHIMA - Japan to host summit of G7 leaders. (to May 21)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 21GENEVA - WHO, World Health Assembly, Seventy-sixth session (to May 30) DILI - Timorese National Parliament Election GREECE - Greece holds parliamentary election
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 22PORT MORESBY - United States President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation in Port Moresby.
GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 23BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) Meeting.
GENEVA - Switzerland holds a ministerial debate on the themes it will raise as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 24SYDNEY - U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Sydney next month for the first meeting of Quad leaders on Australian soil. Biden will join Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 25DETROIT, United States – APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting (till May 26)
BRUSSELS - Meeting of EU trade ministers
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 30MIAMI, FL - Miami Beach International Fashion Week (till June 4) BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 31LATVIA - Latvian parliament elects the president GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day OSLO - Norway to host meeting of NATO foreign ministers. (till June 1)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 8LUXEMBOURG - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. (till June 9)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 11MONTENEGRO - Montenegrin Assembly Election
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 15LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 16LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 20BRUSSELS - Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima on state visit to Belgium. (till June 22)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council meeting (till June 22)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 23ANAHEIM, United States - Asia-Pacific (APAC) 2023 Annual Meetings (till July 1)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 24SIERRA LEONE - Presidency of Sierra Leone Election. SIERRA LEONE - Sierra Leonean Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 25GUATEMALA - Guatemalan Congress of the Republic Election. GUATEMALA - Presidency of Guatemala Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 26LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 27LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 29BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (till June 30)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 5VIENNA - 8th OPEC International Seminar (till July 6)
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