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** ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov attends a meeting of the six-nation Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Defence Ministers' Council in Almaty. – 0500 GMT
** STOCKHOLM - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets with Finland's president and the prime ministers of Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Sweden in Stockholm to discuss security, defence and the war in Ukraine. – 0830 GMT
** SINGAPORE - Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met during the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. SINGAPORE - China's Defence Minister Dong Jun makes introductory visit to Singapore and attends the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD). (To June 2)
SEOUL – Vietnam Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son will pay an official visit to South Korea. (To June 1)
BEIJING - United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on a state visit to China. (Final Day)
CHISINAU/PRAGUE - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay visits to Moldova and the Czech Republic (Final Day) BEIJING - Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo visits China. (Final Day)
BEIJING - Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato' Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid bin Hamidi will undertake an official visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the invitation of Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang. (To June 1)
ATHENS - Japan's Princess Kako visits Greece for the 125th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Japan and Greece. (Final Day)
BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo will pay a state visit to China (Final Day)
WASHINGTON DC - Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu will visit the United States. (To June 2) PRAGUE - NATO Foreign Affairs ministers hold an informal meeting in Prague (Final Day)
SEOUL - President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan on a working visit to South Korea. (To June 6)
SINGAPORE - Minister of National Defence of Canada Bill Blair will travel to Singapore. (To June 2)
TOKYO - Morocco Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita will pay a visit to Japan. (To June 1)
BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, at the Great Hall of the People (GHOP) in Beijing.
BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping meets his Tunisian counterpart, Kais Saied, following the China-Arab States Forum in Beijing.
MADRID - Finland's President Alexander Stubb visits Madrid. (To June 2) WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Prime Minister Alexander De Croo of Belgium for meeting at White House to discuss supporting Ukraine against Russia, including efforts to use immobilized Russian assets. SINGAPORE - President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers keynote address at the opening of the Shangri-La Dialogue Asia security summit in Singapore. – 1200 GMT GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day.
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** SINGAPORE - Defence ministers of South Korea and France hold talks on the sidelines of the Shangri-la security dialogue.
** SINGAPORE - Defence ministers of South Korea and the Philippines hold talks on the sidelines of the Shangri-la security dialogue.
** SINGAPORE - Indonesian defence minister Prabowo Subianto will deliver a special address at the 21st IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. – 0645 GMT
** SINGAPORE - Japanese Minister of Defence Minoru Kihara will deliver a speech in a plenary session titled "Cross-regional security order challenges" at the 21st IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. – 0715 GMT
** SINGAPORE - Japan's Defence Minister Minoru Kihara meets his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. – 0145 GMT
** SINGAPORE - Japan's Defence Minister Minoru Kihara meets his French counterpart, Sebastien Lecornu, at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. – 0215 GMT ULAANBAATAR - President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko will pay an official visit to Mongolia. (To June 4)
SINGAPORE - South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik to speak at the Shangri-La security dialogue in Session 2 on the subject of "Enhancing crisis management amid rising competition" and discuss security environment on the Korean peninsula. – 0130 GMT KATHMANDU - 23rd anniversary of Nepal King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family assassinated by Crown Prince in royal family massacre. LONDON - OPEC+ meets online to decide on output policy. INDIA - Seventh and last phase of India's general election. ICELAND - Icelandic Presidency Election.
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** SINGAPORE - South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik holds talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the Shangri-la security dialogue.
** SINGAPORE - Japan's Defence Minister Minoru Kihara meets U.S Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. – 0500 GMT
** SINGAPORE - Japan's Defence Minister Minoru Kihara meets his Lithuanian counterpart, Laurynas Kasciunas, at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. – 0645 GMT
SINGAPORE - Japan's Defence Minister Minoru Kihara, U.S Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik hold a trilateral meeting at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. – 0900 GMT MEXICO - Mexican Senate Election. MEXICO – Mexican Chamber of Deputies Election. MEXICO - Mexican Presidency Election.
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** BEIJING – Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will pay an official visit to China (To June 5)
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** BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will pay an official visit to China (To June 8) PHNOM PENH - U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin makes an official visit to Cambodia. CHILE – 13th anniversary of Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia.
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** PARIS - U.S President Joe Biden visits France. (To June 9) BERLIN - International Air Show (To June 9).
GLOBAL - World Environment Day.
SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2024 (to June 16)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 6SEOUL - South Korea marks the 69th anniversary of Memorial Day. KAMPALA - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to give a state of the nation address in parliament. EUROPEAN UNION - European Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 7PORT LOUIS - Mauritius' Finance Minister Renganaden Padayachy to present the 2024/25(July-June) budget to parliament. – 1100 GMT
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** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden.
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** MANILA - New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters visits Philippines. (To June 10) BELGIUM - Belgian Chamber of Representatives Election. BULGARIA - Bulgarian National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 10NEW YORK, U.S - His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands to travel to the United States for a working visit to the states of Georgia and New York. (To June 13) CAIRO - Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic travels to Egypt.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour .
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** MANILA - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto visits Manila. – 0330 GMT DODOMA - Tanzania's Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba is due to present the 2024/25 budget to parliament. – 1300 GMT KAMPALA - Ugandan Finance Minister Matia Kasaija is due to present the 2024/25 budget at the parliament. BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy - Italy hosts G7 summit of world leaders. (To June 15)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 14SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2024 (To June 23)
GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.
GAZA - 9th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.
GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 17GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 18CZECH REPUBLIC - Argentina's President Javier Milei visits Prague.
LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council (Cohesion).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 20GLOBAL - World Refugee Day. LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 21GLOBAL - International Yoga Day. LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 22Mauritania - Mauritanian Presidency election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 24BERLIN - 76th 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 organise a massive airlift. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 25LOS ANGELES - 15th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 26GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 27Brussels - European Council meeting (to June 28).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 28Mongolia - Mongolian State Great Hural election.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 29PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 22nd anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.
BEJING/TAIPEI - 14th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 1CHINA – 103rd founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 2GLOBAL - World UFO Day on the anniversary of the Roswell incident.
SIENA - July annual horse race, "Palio di Siena".
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 4UNITED STATES - Independence Day.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 5SONKAJARVI - Wife-Carrying World Championship 2016 (to July 6)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 6GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 7KATHMANDU - 77th birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.
LONDON - 19th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, in which more than 50 people where killed and 700 injured.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 9TEHRAN - 24th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999.
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks 19th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.
SOUTH SUDAN – 13th Anniversary of South Sudan becoming an Independent State.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 11GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.
MUMBAI - 17th anniversary of the deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 14PARIS - Bastille Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 15RWANDA - Rwanda will hold parliamentary elections.
RWANDA - Rwanda will hold a presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 17GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice, which commemorates the adoption of the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, the Rome Statute, on July 17,
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 18GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 20CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 21KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 24th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 22HAMPSHIRE - Farnborough Air show 2024 (to Jul 26).
OSLO – 13th Anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island, where 77 people were killed.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 28GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.
GLOBAL – 110th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.
PERU - 203rd Anniversary of Independence.
VENEZUELA - Venezuela will hold a presidential election.
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