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    FRIDAY, JUNE 17 
    
    • ZAGREB/SARAJEVO - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visits Croatia for talks with his Croatian counterpart Gordan Grlic Radman, after which the two will hold a joint news conference in Zagreb. He will later travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina to meet officials in Sarajevo and attend the graduation ceremony at the Sarajevo International University, as part of his Balkans tour.
    • WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Senegal's Foreign Minister Aïssata Tall Sall at the State Department - 1500 GMT.

    WASHINGTON, D.C. - Joint Press Conference by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley - 1845 GMT.

    BRUSSELS - U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin meets with counterparts at NATO headquarters in Brussels - 0630 GMT

    LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.

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

    NEW DELHI - Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will visit India (Final Day)

    NEW DELHI - India to host a special meeting with foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states in New Delhi from June 16-17 to mark the 30th anniversary of relations with the 10-member grouping and to discuss ways to boost cooperation in future. (Final Day).

    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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    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 
    
    • BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels.

    NEW DELHI - Australian defense minister Richard Marles will visit India.

    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 
    
    • TASHKENT - President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Uzbekistan (to June 22).

    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 
    
    • ANKARA - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) will visit Turkey.

    BERLIN - International Air Show (to June 25).

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    THURSDAY, JUNE 23 
    
    • BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping will host a virtual BRICS summit for leaders.

    BEIJING, China (PRC) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin takes part in BRICS summit held by China (through video-link) (to June 24).

    BAKU - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be on a visit to Azerbaijan and meets counterpart and President Ilham Aliyev (To June 24).

    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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    THURSDAY, JUNE 30 
    

    MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Moscow.

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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 
    

    MOSCOW - Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov takes part in G20 foreign ministers meeting (To July 8).

    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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    WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 
    
    • ISRAEL/PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - U.S. President Joe Biden to meet Israeli and Palestinian leadership during a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. (To July 14)
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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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