News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from June 14

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    TUESDAY, JUNE 14 
    
    • TEHRAN - At the invitation of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will visit Iran (to June 15).
    • PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen meets Palestinian PM Shtayyeh in Ramallah - 1000 GMT
    • ATHENS - Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras receives his German counterpart Christian Lindner in Athens. Press statements are expected around noon. - 1015 GMT
    • SOFIA - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner will meet his Bulgarian counterpart Assen Vassilev in Sofia. The two will make press statements after discussing the fiscal and economic policies of Bulgaria, its national plan to tap on EU's recovery fund and the challenges arising from the war in Ukraine. - 1430 GMT
    • THE HAGUE, Netherlands - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Latvia, Romania and Belgium meet in The Hague to prepare the upcoming Madrid summit of the alliance. Stoltenberg and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen hold a news conference. - 1700 GMT

    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).

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

    JERUSALEM, Israel / Palestinian Territories - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen 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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    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 
    
    • NEW DELHI - Jose Manuel Albares Bueno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain, will pay an official visit to India.
    • PRISTINA, Kosovo - European Council President Charles Michel visits Kosovo. Kosovo is hoping to one day join the EU, but must first normalise relations with neighbouring Serbia, among other issues.
    • WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with representatives from NATO observer countries at the State Department.
    • TOKYO - Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles visiting Tokyo attends a welcome ceremony hosted by his Japanese counterpart Nobuo Kishi, followed by bilateral talks and joint press statement.
    • BRUSSELS - EU's economics commissioner Paolo Gentiloni speaks at a conference organised by Politico in Brussels - 1200 GMT
    • BRUSSELS - NATO's Defence Ministers gather in Brussels for a regular meeting. - 1630 GMT

    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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    THURSDAY, JUNE 16 
    
    • WELLINGTON - New Zealand's foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta meets with her Australian counterpart Penny Wong in Wellington
    • SKOPJE, North Macedonia - European Council President Charles Michel visits North Macedonia. North Macedonia has been hoping for years to get candidate status to join the European Union, but EU member Bulgaria is blocking the beginning of accession negotiations.

    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 - Leaders of Western Balkans countries hold a meeting with EU representatives ahead of a summit of EU leaders in Brussels.

    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 
    
    • RIYADH - US President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia and is set to meet the country’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (to July 16)

    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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