News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from June 13

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    MONDAY, JUNE 13 
    
    • NUR-SULTAN - Minister of State for External Affairs of India, Meenakashi Lekhi, on Monday arrived in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, on her first visit to the Central Asian country.
    • TEHRAN - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Iran.
    • PARIS - French President Macron to meet Belgium Prime Minister Alexander de Croo in Paris.
    • TRURO, United Kingdom - British PM Johnson meets with Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa.
    • HANOI - Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman visits Hanoi. She will meet her counterpart Bui Thanh Son.
    • BANGKOK - U.S. Défense Secretary Lloyd Austin meets with his counterpart Prayuth Chan-ocha at Ministry of Defence.
    • MADRID - Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez is visited by Latvian Prime Minister Arturs Krisjanis Karins - 1230 GMT
    • LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet his Portuguese counterpart, António Costa, in Downing Street on Monday to sign a political agreement between the two nations. - 1300 GMT
    • HARPSUND - Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to discuss, among other things, Sweden and Finland's applications for NATO membership and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. - 1310 GMT
    • MADRID - Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares meets his counterpart from Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan - 1400 GMT
    • BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz holds a joint news conference with Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger after holding talks. - 1800 GMT

    BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock delivers an opening keynote on "Transatlantic Relations During Uncertain Times" at the German-American Conference in Berlin followed by a Q&A - 0800 GMT.

    BERLIN - German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht delivers a keynote at the German-American Conference in Berlin followed by a Q&A - 1530 GMT.

    BERLIN - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck attends East German Economic Forum - 0700 GMT.

    PRAGUE - Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi visits Prague, to have talks with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky and counterparts from East Timor, Hungary, and Lithuania. Indonesia currently chairs G20 - 0900 GMT.

    SINGAPORE - The Prime Minister of Japan, Kishida Fumio, will visit Singapore at the invitation of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. (Final Day)

    SINGAPORE - IISS Shangri-La Dialogue (to June 12).

    NAIROBI - Barbados President Dame Sandra Mason visits Kenya (to June 12).

    SINGAPORE - State Councilor and Defense Minister of China General Wei Fenghe will attend the 19th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue and visit Singapore upon invitation. (to June 12)

    KINSHASA - Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will take an official visit to Democratic Republic of Congo, leading a delegation that will also include Belgium's prime minister and other officials (to June 13).

    NAANTALI, FINLAND - Finland's President Sauli Niinisto hosts talks on NATO and changed Nordic security environment (to June 13).

    Baku - President of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid will visit Azerbaijan (to June 13).

    JERUSALEM/PALESTINE - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Teritorries (to June 14).

    JERUSALEM, Israel / Palestinian Territories - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories (to June 14)

    JERUSALEM, Israel / Palestinian Territories - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to meet Israeli and Palestinian officials during a three-day-visit to the region (To June 15)

    WASHINGTON D.C. - South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin visits the United Sates and meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (to June 15).

    GENEVA, Switzerland - Opening of WTO's 164 member states Ministerial Conference in Geneva (to June 15)

    HELSINKI - Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto hosts a Nordic-African Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Helsinki (to June 15).

    SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2020 (to June 19)

    SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2020 (to June 19)

    GENEVA, Switzerland - 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council (to July 8)

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    GENEVA - Ministers from the WTO's 164 member states set to gather in Geneva to negotiate global trade deals across a range of sectors including fisheries, agriculture and health.

    NICOSIA - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visits Cyprus. WELLINGTON - Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa will visit Aotearoa New Zealand this month, 60 years after the Treaty of Friendship between the two countries was signed.

    KAMPALA - Uganda's Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija, presents the 2022/23 (July-June) budget speech to parliament.

    DODOMA - Tanzania's finance minister, Mwigulu Nchemba, presents the 2022/23 (July-June) fiscal budget to parliament – 1300 GMT

    GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.

    GAZA - 15th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.

    GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).

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    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 
    
    • CAIRO - EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visits Egypt amid talks for gas deal with Egypt and Israel to reduce EU's reliance on Russian gas.
    • JAKARTA - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit Indonesia.
    • BRUSSELS - NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds press conference in Brussels ahead of meeting of NATO defence ministers. - 0900 GMT

    BUCHAREST - The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, will pay a visit to Romania

    BRUSSELS - Defence ministers help prepare the NATO summit in Madrid on June 28/29, with discussions expected to focus on Ukraine. Finland, Georgia, Sweden, Ukraine expected to join meeting and Secretary General Stoltenberg will brief the media.

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    • KYIV - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron plan a joint trip to Kyiv.

    LUXEMBOURG - Euro zone finance ministers meet on ERM2, digital euro, fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT

    LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting.

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    FRIDAY, JUNE 17 
    

    LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.

    GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

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    SUNDAY, JUNE 19 
    
    • TEHRAN - President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Jomart Tokayev will pay an official visit to Iran.

    PARIS, France - Election for National Assembly of France.

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    MONDAY, JUNE 20 
    

    YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia to have G20 health ministers meeting (to June 21).

    GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.

    LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council.

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    TUESDAY, JUNE 21 
    
    • TEHRAN - Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedov will arrive in Iran.

    KHON KAEN, Thailand – APEC Senior Finance Officials' Meeting (SFOM) (to June 24).

    ZURICH - Switzerland and Singapore host fintech confereence. The Forum will be opened by Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer and Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister, Heng Swee Keat (to June 23).

    PHNOM PENH - 16th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting. (To June 22)

    LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 
    

    BERLIN - International Air Show (to June 25).

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    THURSDAY, JUNE 23 
    

    BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to June 24).

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    FRIDAY, JUNE 24 
    

    BERLIN - 74th 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.

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    SATURDAY, JUNE 25 
    

    VIENNA – IAEA International Symposium on Uranium Raw Material for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Exploration, Mining, Production, Supply and Demand, Economics and Environmental Issues (to June 29).

    LOS ANGELES - 13th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson.

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    SUNDAY, JUNE 26 
    

    GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

    BERLIN - G7 summit, Schloss Elmau (to June 28)

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    TUESDAY, JUNE 28 
    

    MADRID - NATO Summit is be held in Madrid (to June 30)

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    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 
    

    MADRID - South Korea's President Yoon Seok-youl to attend NATO summit in Madrid (to June 30).

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    FRIDAY, JULY 1 
    

    CHINA – 101st founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China.

    SONKAJARVI - Wife-Carrying World Championship 2020 (to July 2)

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    SATURDAY, JULY 2 
    

    GLOBAL - World UFO day on anniversary of the Roswell incident.

    SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena".

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    SUNDAY, JULY 3 
    

    KINSHASA - Pope Francis visits Congo (To July 4)

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    MONDAY, JULY 4 
    

    UNITED STATES - Independence Day.

    GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives.

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    TUESDAY, JULY 5 
    

    JUBA - Pope Francis visits South Sudan, where violence and hunger stalk world's youngest nation (to Jul. 6).

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    THURSDAY, JULY 7 
    
    • BALI, Indonesia - G20 Foreign Ministers are set to meet in Indonesia's Bali in a hybrid meeting

    KATHMANDU - 75th birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.

    LONDON - 17th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, killing more than 50 and injuring 700.

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    SATURDAY, JULY 9 
    

    TEHRAN - 22nd anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999.

    JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks 17th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.

    SOUTH SUDAN – 11th Anniversary of South Sudan becoming an Independent State.

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    SUNDAY, JULY 10 
    

    CONGO (Brazzaville) - Congolese National Assembly election.

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    MONDAY, JULY 11 
    

    BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

    GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.

    MUMBAI - 15th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.

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    TUESDAY, JULY 12 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council

    BRUSSELS - European Union finance ministers will set the irrevocable exchange rate at which croatia will convert its kuna currency into euros when it adopts the single currency on Jan 1, 2023.

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    THURSDAY, JULY 14 
    

    PRAGUE - EU affairs ministers informal meeting in Prague. (to July 15) PARIS - Bastille Day.

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    FRIDAY, JULY 15 
    
    • BALI, Indonesia - Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors from the G20 countries meet in Indonesia's Bali
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    SUNDAY, JULY 17 
    

    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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    MONDAY, JULY 18 
    

    BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

    HAMPSHIRE - Farnborough International Airshow 2022 (to Jul 22)

    GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.

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    TUESDAY, JULY 19 
    

    PRAGUE - EU industry and trade ministers informal meeting in Prague. (to July 20)

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    WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 
    

    CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.

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    THURSDAY, JULY 21 
    

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 22nd anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135.

    GLOBAL - International Yoga Day.

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    FRIDAY, JULY 22 
    

    OSLO – 11th Anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people killed.

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    SUNDAY, JULY 24 
    

    OTTAWA - Pope Francis to visit Canada (to July 30)

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    MONDAY, JULY 25 
    

    TUNISIA – Referendum election

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    THURSDAY, JULY 28 
    

    GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.

    GLOBAL – 108th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

    PERU - 201st Anniversary of Independence.

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    FRIDAY, JULY 29 
    

    BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2022 (to Aug. 9)

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    SUNDAY, JULY 31 
    

    KINSHASA, Congo - Election for Congolese National Assembly

    DAKAR, Senegal - Election for Senegalese National Assembly

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    TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 
    

    KENYA – President election. KENYA - Kenyan National Assembly election. KENYA - Kenyan Senate election.

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    SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 
    

    BANGKOK - 11th APEC Tourism Ministers Meeting and the 60th APEC Tourism Working Group Meeting (to August 20).

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