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** LONDON - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden to Northern Ireland. Sunak will meet Biden at the airport.
** MOGADISHU - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be in Somalia on Tuesday on a visit to show solidarity with the Muslim country during the holy month of Ramadan - 1600 GMT. NEW DELHI - Ukraine's First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emine Dzhaparova, will be on an official visit to India. (To April 12)
VIENTIANE - President of Vietnam Vo Van Thuong will pay an official visit to Laos. (Final day) MANILA - Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo and Department of National Defense OIC Carlito will be in Washington, D.C. for the 3rd Philippines-United States 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue (To Apr.12) SEOUL - Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa to visit South Korea for talks with his counterpart, Han Duck-soo. (To April 12) TOKYO - Jordan's King Abdullah II meets Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Emperor Naruhito in Tokyo.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks in Moscow with Kazakh counterpart Murat Nurtleu - 0900 GMT.
DUBLIN - U.S. President Joe Biden begins a four-day visit to Northern Ireland in Belfast on Tuesday evening, where he will meet UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as the British-run region marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord (April 14).
ATHENS - Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias meets his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry to discuss boosting economic and energy ties - 1100 GMT. WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will receive Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo and Defense chief Carlito Galvez. DUBLIN - U.S. President Joe Biden to visit Ireland, Northern Ireland (To April 14)
FRANCE – 12th Anniversary of the French law banning the burqa and niqab. ABIDJAN – 12th anniversary of the arrest of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by supporters of president-elect Alassane Ouattara with the help of French forces, thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war. AMSTERDAM - French President Emmanuel Macron makes a state visit to the Netherlands, accompanied by first lady Brigitte Macron, where he will meet King Willem-Alexander. (To April 12)
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** DUBLIN - U.S. President Joe Biden arrives in the Irish capital Dublin.
** TASHKENT - Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang will visit Uzbekistan (To April 13) WASHINGTON DC - The 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund take place in Washington D.C. GLOBAL - International Day of Human Space Flight.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 13
** BUCHAREST - Ukrainian and Romanian foreign and defence ministries meet in Bucharest for a conference on Black Sea security.
** BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel give press conference in Washington - 1145 GMT.
** DUBLIN - U.S. President Joe Biden meets with the Irish President Michael Higgins in Dublin.
** DUBLIN - U.S. President Biden addresses the Houses of the Irish parliament on the third day of a visit to the island of Ireland.
** SARAJEVO - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev visits Bosnia, where he will meet the country's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency. BEIJING - German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock travels to China on first leg of Asia trip.
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** DUBLIN - U.S. President Biden visits Knock in County Mayo, touring the Sanctuary of Our Lady Knock, on the fourth day of his visit to the island of Ireland. BEIJING - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. VIENNA - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda speak to reporters - 1030 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 15HANOI - U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to arrive in Vietnam to meet with its top leaders before taking part in the G7 meeting in Japan. SEOUL - German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock travels to South Korea on second leg of Asia trip. BELFAST/NEW YORK – 110th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
SAPPORO, Japan - G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment (to April 16).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 16TOKYO - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrives in Japan after visiting China and South Korea. KARUIZAWA, Japan - G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Karuizawa, Nagano (to April 18).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 17BOSTON - 2023 Boston Marathon.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 20UNITED STATES - 13th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 21BRASILIA - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visits Portugal for a state visit and to attend Portuguese language summit, then continues to Spain. PARIS – 62nd anniversary of the first manned mission to space. SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to May 1).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 22GLOBAL - Earth Day.
LISBON - Portugal to host bilateral summit with Brazil. (To April 25)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 23GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day. LONDON - 2023 London Marathon.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 24NEW YORK - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York and will chair two meetings of the Security Council. (To April 25) ROAD TOWN - British Virgin Islands House of Assembly Election.
GLOBAL - World Immunization Week 2023 (to April 30). LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 25** TOKYO - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be on an official visit to Japan at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio (April 28).
NEW YORK CITY - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chairs open debate on the Middle East as part of Russia's presidency of the UN Security Council this month. GLOBAL - World Malaria Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26WASHINGTON DC - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington.
DELPHI, Greece - Greece hosts annual economic conference in Delphi. (To April 29)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 28PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania – 25th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania.
BUDAPEST - Pope Francis to visit Hungary (To Apr 30)
STOCKHOLM – Eurogroup Meeting.
BRUSSELS - EU informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers. (To April 29)
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** STOCKHOLM - EU finance ministers and heads of central banks meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union. LONDON – 12th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 30THIMPHU - Bhutanese National Council Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Presidency of Paraguay Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Senators Election.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 4Goa, India - The foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, comprising China, Russia, India and other central Asian countries, meet in Goa. (To May 5) BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of health ministers. (May 5)
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 8BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner gives a keynote address at a conference for German tax advisers - 1315 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 9LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - 42nd ASEAN Summit. (To May 11) LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM). (To May 11)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 11NIIGATA, Japan - G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Niigata (to May 13). BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich. (To 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 12KORNIK, 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 14THAILAND - Thailand holds a general election. TURKEY - Grand National Assembly of Turkey Election. TURKEY - Presidency of Turkey Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 15BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 16BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 19HIROSHIMA - Japan to host summit of G7 leaders (to May 21).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 21DILI - Timorese National Parliament Election. GREECE - Greece holds parliamentary election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 22BRUSSELS - 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.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 25DETROIT, United States – APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting. (To May 26)
BRUSSELS - Meeting of EU trade ministers.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 30BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 31OSLO - Norway to host meeting of NATO foreign ministers (To June 1)
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