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** BUCHAREST - Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu joint statements with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna and Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Cristina Gherasimov on the sidelines of an annual Romanian diplomacy meeting.
** NAIROBI - Kenya's President William Ruto makes address to the nation - 1000 GMT.
** PARIS – President of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam will visit France at the invitation of the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, for the opening events connected to the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games. (To July 28) BUCHAREST - U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm opening remarks at an annual meeting of the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation (P-TECC) in capital Bucharest (Final day)
ISLAMABAD - Rasit Meredow, the Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan, has arrived in Pakistan for a three-day diplomatic visit aimed at strengthening ties between the two nations. (Final day) GUJARAT, India - The King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay arrived in Gujarat on a three-day private visit. (Final day)
BEIJING - Maldives foreign minister Moosa Zameer to visit China. (Final day) VIENTIANE - 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)
HAMPSHIRE - Farnborough Air show 2024 (to Jul 26).
BEIJING - Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visits China (To July 26)
SEOUL - Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Vladimirovich Ruzenkov will visit North Korea (To July 26) PARIS - Israeli President Isaac Herzog visits France for a series of meetings ahead of the Olympics, including with Israeli athletes. NEW DELHI - UK foreign secretary David Lammy to visit India (To July 25)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - G20 Finance Ministers will hold meeting from July 24-25, ahead of the G20 Brazil Summit 2024 (To July 25) MANILA - Philippines' finance, economic planning, and other ministers at a news conference on education, workers’ welfare, infrastructure development, energy security, and peace and order - 0100 GMT. VIENTIANE, Laos - Laos' Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith, along with the Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, is to host an informal consultation on the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus - 0630 GMT.
BERLIN - British defence minister Boris Pistorius hosts German counterpart John Healey in Berlin - 1230 GMT. 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.
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** ROME - Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, meets with Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, in Rome - 0900 GMT.
** WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
** VIENTIANE - Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit Vientiane, Lao PDR, to take part in the Foreign Ministers' Meetings under the ASEAN framework in the format of the ASEAN-India, East Asia Summit. (To July 27)
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.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 26VIENTIANE - Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov takes part in ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Laos. 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.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 27TOKYO - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visits Tokyo during his Asia trip (To July 28)
PARIS - Finnish President Alexander Stubb visits France and the Paris Summer Olympics - 0000 GMT. 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 28TOKYO - Foreign and defence ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks in Japan.
TOKYO - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets their Japanese counterparts, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Japanese Defence Minister Minoru Kihara for a 2+2 meeting.
TOKYO - United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara, and South Korean Defence Minister Shin Won-sik will hold a trilateral meeting in Tokyo. TOKYO - U.S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken to visit Japan (To July 29) BERLIN - 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.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 29TOKYO - The foreign ministers of the "Quad" countries - the United States, Japan, Australia and India - will meet in Japan. MANILA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken goes to the Philippines for a 2-day official visit (To July 30)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 30** PANMUNJOM, SOUTH KOREA - Australian Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, visits the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.
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** ULAANBAATAR - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Mongolia. LONDON - OPEC+ ministerial panel meets to review oil policy. WARSAW – 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)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 5POTSDAM, Germany - Germany's Finance Minister Christian Lindner takes part in citizens' dialogue - 1015 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - 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 12MOSCOW - President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas will visit Russia and meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. (To Aug. 14) GLOBAL - International Youth Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14KIRIBATI - Kiribati Presidency Election. KIRIBATI - Kiribati House of Assembly Election. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – 77th Anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule.
- - - - - - - - - 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.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 16LIMA - APEC Energy Ministerial Meeting.
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.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28VENICE, Italy – 81st Venice International Film Festival (To Sept 7) BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich. (To Aug. 29)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 29BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of defence ministers. (To Aug. 30)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1NORTH 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)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TORONTO, 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.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6GENEVA, 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.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9GENEVA, 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.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11UNITED 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)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15VIENTIANE - 56th ASEAN Economic Minister Meeting. (To Sept. 22) 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.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16VIENNA - IAEA 68th General Conference. (To Sept. 20)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of transport ministers. (To Sept. 20)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech Senate Election.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21MUNICH, Germany - 189th Munich Oktoberfest. (To Oct. 6)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting. BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau marks 51st anniversary of Independence from Portugal.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28GLOBAL - World Rabies Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29BERLIN – BMW Berlin Marathon. AUSTRIA - Austrian National Council Election.
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