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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, JULY 8** SINGAPORE - Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Ali Sabry will make an official visit to Singapore. (final day)
** BEIJING - Hungary prime minister Viktor Orbán will visit China.
** PARIS - OECD to launch the Economic Survey of Austria.
** CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty is meeting the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini.
** BEIJING - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit China (to July 10)
** WARSAW - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrives in Warsaw, meets Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk - 1100 GMT MAPUTO/LUANDA - President of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta, will pay state visits to Mozambique and Angola. (To July 13)
BEIJING - Foreign Minister of Belarus Maksim Ryzhenkov will pay an official visit to China (To Jul. 9)
BEIJING - Prime Minister of Republic of Vanuatu Charlot Salwai will visit China (To Jul. 12) MOSCOW - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay an official visit to Moscow at the invitation of the President of the Russian Federation for the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit."(To Jul. 9)
MADRID - Spain's economy minister Carlos Cuerpo to speak at an Europa Press event in Madrid. MANILA - The Philippines and Japan will hold a 2+2 foreign and defence ministerial meeting – 0330 GMT.
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** BEIJING - Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo pays a state visit to China from (to July 13)
** BEIJING - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele pays an official visit to China from (July 15) BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Sangiampongsa of Thailand will pay an official visit to China and co-chair the second meeting of the Consultation Mechanism between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of China and Thailand (To Jul. 10) WELLINGTON - New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in the US for NATO (To Jul. 12) WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. hosts NATO'S 75th anniversary summit (July 11)
SUCRE - President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will visit Bolivia. WASHINGTON DC. - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends the NATO summit
TEHRAN - 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.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 10** WASHINGTON DC. - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto speaks to Reuters as the NATO summit takes place in Washington - 1300 GMT VIENNA - Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak to reporters in Vienna - 0915 GMT. ULAANBAATAR - King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck will visit Mongolia. (To July 15)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 11** ISLAMABAD - Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev would pay two-day official visit to Pakistan. (To July 12)
** PARIS - OECD to launch the Economic Survey of Korea.
** WASHINGTON DC. - US President Joe Biden holds a press conference at the close of the NATO summit. GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.
MUMBAI - 17th anniversary of the deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
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** BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Berlin - 1330 GMT LISBON - Princess Leonor, heir of the Spanish throne, takes her first official trip alone, on the invitation of neighboring Portugal's president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 14PARIS - Bastille Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 15BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of energy ministers. (To July 16) BRUSSELS – Eurogroup Meeting.
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC - Syrian People's Council Election.
RWANDA - Rwanda will hold parliamentary elections.
RWANDA - Rwanda will hold a presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 16NEW 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.
- - - - - - - - - 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 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.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 22BRUSSELS – 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.
- - - - - - - - - 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.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14ISLAMABAD, 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 28BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich. (To Aug. 29)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 29BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of defence ministers. (To Aug. 30)
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