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** PORT LOUIS – Foreign Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will undertake an official visit to the Republic of Mauritius. (To July 17) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Heng Swee Keat will visit Brunei Darussalam (To Jul. 17) DAKAR/YAMOUSSOUKRO - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to visit Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire (To Jul. 17)
BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of energy ministers. (Final day)
ABU DHABI - President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo will commence a two-day state visit to the United Arab Emirates (To Jul. 17)
MADRID - Spain's Economy Minister Cuerpo meets with foreign correspondents.
BRUSSELS - EU countries' energy ministers hold informal talks on geothermal energy - 0600 GMT.
BRUSSELS - EU countries' finance ministers meet to discuss issues including how to respond to seven member states' excessive defecits: Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia - 0800 GMT.
PRAGUE - The Czech and Ukrainian governments will jointly meet in Prague - 0900 GMT.
BUCHAREST/WARSAW - Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry will pay official visits to Romania and Poland (To Jul. 19) ASUNCION - The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, will make an official visit to Paraguay. (To July 17)
NEW YORK CITY, United States - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to chair UN Security Council meeting on multilateralism. (To July 17)
BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Meeting.
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** JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will brief lawmakers in parliament on his department's spending plans - 1200 GMT. LONDON - New British and Irish prime ministers Keir Starmer and Simon Harris hold their first meeting at the British premier's country residence of Chequers.
BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner holds news conference on 2025 draft budget - 1215 GMT.
GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice, which commemorates the adoption of the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, the Rome Statute, on July 17,
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** LONDON - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will travel to the United Kingdom. BUDAPEST - Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok meets new Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, news conference to follow at 1000 GMT.
OXFORD, United Kingdom - EU leaders to meet in Oxford for the EPC summit GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 20CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 21VIENTIANE - 25th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (APT FMM). (To July 27) VIENTIANE - 14th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (EAS FMM). (To July 27)
VIENTIANE - 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting. (To July 27)
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 24th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135.
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** WASHINGTON DC - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Joe Biden at the White House.
** NEW DELHI - India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the Economic Survey of India, a report on the state of economy in parliament - 0700 GMT.
BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers. (To July 23)
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council Meeting.
HAMPSHIRE - 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.
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** NEW DELHI - Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present annual budget on Tuesday - 0530 GMT. ACCRA - Ghana finance minister Mohammed Amin Adam will present the midyear budget to Parliament - 1000 GMT.
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** VIENTIANE - ASEAN foreign ministers to hold a meeting of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) Commission - 0230 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers interface meeting with ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) - 0345 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 25** VIENTIANE - Laos' Foreign Minister, Saleumxay Kommasith, hosts the meeting as a plenary session for his ASEAN Foreign Ministers counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0200 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - Laos is set to host a bilateral meeting at the National Convention Center during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0745 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - Laos' Foreign Minister holds a trilateral meeting with Norway and the ASEAN Secretariat during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0800 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - Laos' Foreign Minister holds a trilateral meeting with Switzerland and the ASEAN Secretariat during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0900 GMT.
** HARARE - Zimbabwe's finance minister Mthuli Ncube will present his mid-term budget review amid a drought that has dampened economic prospects - 1200 GMT.
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** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers hold a conference with their New Zealand and China's counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0130 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers hold a conference with their Japan and European Union's counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0245 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers hold a conference with their South Korean and Indian counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0400 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers hold a conference with their Russian and United Kingdom's counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0600 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers hold a conference with their US and Canadian counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 0715 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers hold a conference with their Australian counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting -0830 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers hold a conference with their Turkish counterparts during the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting - 1000 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers arrive for dinner hosted by Lao's Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith in Vientiane - 1130 GMT.
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** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers arrive for courtesy call hosted by Lao's Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith in Vientiane - 0130 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers arrive for 25th ASEAN Plus Three FMs' meeting - 0200 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - ASEAN Foreign Ministers arrive for 31st ASEAN Regional Forum - 0345 GMT.
** VIENTIANE - Laos' Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith holds press conference at the end of ASEAN FFM meeting - 1030 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 28BERLIN - Christian Lindner, German finance minister and leader of the fiscally conservative FDP, gives an interview to ARD as part of the broadcaster's summer series of political interviews - 1630 GMT. GLOBAL - 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.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 1WARSAW – Poland marks 80th anniversary of its war-time Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation. CHINA – 97th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army. GLOBAL – World Breastfeeding Week (To Aug. 7)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 2EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 (To Aug 26)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 6HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Commemorations 79th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 8SINGAPORE - Anniversary (1967) of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 9NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 79th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 10EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug 26)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 12GLOBAL - International Youth Day.
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- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 15NEW DELHI, India – 77th Anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule. TOKYO, Japan – 79th Anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two. LIECHTENSTEIN – 218th Anniversary of Independence.
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TRALEE, Ireland - 2024 Rose of Tralee International Festival (To Aug 20)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 19SINT MAARTEN - Sint Maarten Parliament Election.
GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day. MOSCOW – 32nd Anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21DAMASCUS, Syria - 11th Anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighborhoods on the edge of Damascus.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 23BALTIC WAY - 35th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 24WARSAW, Poland - Poland marks the 35th anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989. KYIV, Ukraine – 33rd Anniversary of Independence. WASHINGTON DC – 212th Anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 25URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day. PARIS – 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.
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** VENICE, Italy – 81st Venice International Film Festival (To Sept 7) BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich. (To Aug. 29)
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** NORTH OSSETIA, Russia - 20th Anniversary of the terrorist attack at Beslan School. AZERBAIJAN - Azerbaijani National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2BUDAPEST - EU Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council. (To Sept. 3)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3JAKARTA - Pope Francis visits Indonesia's capital Jakarta amid Southeast Asia tour (to September 6)
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** TORONTO, Canada - Toronto International Film Festival 2024. (To Sept. 15)
** MUNICH, Germany – 52nd anniversary of the attack on Israeli Olympic team by Palestinian gunmen, killing 11 Israelis.
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** GENEVA, Switzerland - 57th Session UN Human Rights Council. (To Oct. 9) PORT MORESBY - Pope Francis will tour Papua New Guinea from Sept. 6-9, where he will visit the country's capital Port Moresby and north western township Vanimo (To Sep. 9)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7ALGERIA - Algerian Presidency Election.
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** GENEVA, Switzerland - 57th Session UN Human Rights Council. (To Oct. 9) JAKARTA - Pope Francis visits Timor's capital Dili amid Southeast Asia tour (to September 11).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10JORDAN - Jordanian House of Deputies Election.
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** UNITED STATES – 23rd anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. SINGAPORE - Pope Francis visits Singapore (to September 13)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13BUDAPEST - EU Informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers. (To Sept. 14)
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** GLOBAL - International Day of Democracy.
** GUATEMALA – 203rd anniversary of Independence.
** EL SALVADOR – 203rd anniversary of Independence.
** COSTA RICA – 203rd anniversary of Independence.
** HONDURAS – 203rd anniversary of Independence.
** NICARAGUA – 203rd anniversary of Independence.
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** VIENNA - IAEA 68th General Conference. (To Sept. 20)
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** BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of transport ministers. (To Sept. 20)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech Senate Election.
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** MUNICH, Germany - 189th Munich Oktoberfest. (To Oct. 6)
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** BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.
** BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau marks 51st anniversary of Independence from Portugal.
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** GLOBAL - World Rabies Day.
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** BERLIN – BMW Berlin Marathon. AUSTRIA - Austrian National Council Election.
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