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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events----------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, JUNE 18
- ROME/ PARIS/ BRUSSELS - Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visits Italy, France, Luxembourg and Belgium (to June 23).
- ATEHNS/ PARAMARIBO/ HAVANA - Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Greece, Suriname and Cuba (to June 22).
- BRUSSELS - EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini meets foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania Niger and Chad for talks.
- BRATISLAVA - EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger visits Slovakia - 0900 GMT.
- BERLIN, Germany - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Italy's new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, with military honours before they hold a joint news conference ahead of their talks. - 1700 GMT. SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2018 (to Jun. 25). WARSAW - First vice president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans to hold talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw.
BEIJING - Bolivian President Juan Evo Morales Ayma will pay a state visit to China (to Jun. 20).
GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Council, Thirty-eighth session (to Jul. 6).
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- ATEHNS - Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will give speech on 'India and Europe in the Changing World' at a think-tank in Athens.
- VIENNA - European Parliament President Antonio Tajani holds a news conference with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz - 1000 GMT.
BEIJING - Senegalese Foreign Minister Sidiki Kaba will pay an official visit to China (to June 22).
PARIS/LONDON - Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha will officially vist France and the United Kingdom (to Jun. 26). BEIJING – Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is set to visit China (to Jun. 23).
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- AMMAN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will arrive in Amman, where she is expected to meet with King Andullah.
- LONDON - Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, delivers a speech in London - 0930 GMT. LONDON - UK Prime Minister Theresa May welcomes Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on official visit – 1600 GMT. BEIJING - Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Neill will pay a visit to China (to June 26).
MOSCOW - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Moscow on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the United Nations' work in Russia (to June 21). NAIROBI - Kenya hosts the fifth East Africa Oil and Gas Summit (to Jun. 21). GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.
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- MINSK - European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn and European Commissioner for Digital Economy mariya Gabriel visits Belarus (to June 22).
- AMMAN - German Chancellor Angelia Merkel will visit the Jordan-Germany university, where she is expected to meet with a number of students. Later in the day, the German official will have a meeting with King Abdullah.
- LONDON - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivers pre-summit address in London.
- DUBLIN - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to address the Irish parliament during a visit to Dublin - 1045 GMT.
- GENEVA, Switzerland - Pope Francis holds meeting at the World council of Churches, gives speech - 1530 GMT.
GENEVA, Switzerland - UK trade minister Liam Fox takes part in trade round table in Geneva – 1300 GMT.
BRUSSELS - EU-Armenia Partnership Council meeting.
LONDON - United Kingdom Finance Minister Philip Hammond and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney make their annual Mansion House speeches at a dinner hosted by the Lord Mayor of the City of London - 0600 GMT.
BEIJING - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill meets Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing - 0800 GMT.
BEIJING - Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen will pay an official visit to China (to June 22).
MOSCOW - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin (to Jun. 23). SOFIA - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and Energy Minister Temenuizhka Petkova will attend an economic forum in the city of Plovdiv to discuss regional political and energy perspectives in Bulgaria (to Jun. 22).
LUXEMBOURG CITY – Eurogroup meeting.
GENEVA - Pope Francis pays a one-day visit to Geneva.
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- BEIRUT - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to visit Lebanon.
- WELLINGTON - European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom visits Auckland, New Zealand as the EU launches free trade negotiations with New Zealand.
- TARTU, Estonia - President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, President of Iceland Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson, President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Latvia Raimonds Vejonis, President of Poland Andrzej Duda and President of Finland Sauli Niinisto will participate in the Estonia 100 celebration in Tartu - 1000 GMT. VIENNA - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ministers meet in Austria.
LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 24BERLIN - 70th 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 organize a massive airlift. JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH – Prince William will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah when he becomes the first senior member of Britain's royal family (to June 28). TURKEY - Grand National Assembly of Turkey election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 25LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
LOS ANGELES - 9th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. VIENNA – IAEA International Symposium on Uranium Raw Material for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Exploration, Mining, Production, Supply and Demand, Economics and Environmental Issues (to Jun. 29). GENEVA – United Nations Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional Working Group on Communications, 123rd session (to Jun. 29). LUXEMBOURG CITY - EU Foreign Affairs Council meets.
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- DUBLIN - IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde visits Dublin - 1030 GMT.
VATICAN CITY - French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
COPENHAGEN - Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to visit Denmark (to Jun. 27).
GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. LUXEMBOURG CITY - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump and Portuguese President Rebelo de Sousa meet at the White House (to June 27).
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- PRAGUE - Seminar ""Global and Regional Economic Developments and IMF Policy Response", with opening speech from CNB Vice-Governor Vladimir Tomsik; participants include IMF Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa and IMF Director, European Department, Poul Thomsen.
- BRUSSELS - Chairman of EU summit Donald Tusk ad European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker hold a news conference after the first working session of the meeting - 1700 GMT. BRUSSLES - European Council meets (to Jun. 29). - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 29
- BRUSSELS - Chairman of EU leaders Donald Tusk and head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker hold news conference after the second day of talks, on Brexit and on deepening euro zone economic integration - 1130 GMT.
BRUSSELS - Euro Summit.
PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 16th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash. BEJING/TAIPEI - 8th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.
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- ZURICH - Iran President Hassan Rouhani to visit Switzerland and Austria (to Jul 6). Mexico - Mexican Chamber of Deputies election. Mexico – Presidential election. Mexico – Mexican Senate election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 2GLOBAL - World UFO day on anniversary of the Roswell incident.
SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena".
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 4UNITED STATES - Independence Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 7GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives.
KATHMANDU - 71st birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.
LONDON - 13th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, killing more than 50 and injuring 700.
VIENNA – IAEA International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Forensic Countering the Evolving Threat of Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material out of Regulatory Control (to Jul. 10).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 9BRUSSELS - EU-Ukraine summit.
TEHRAN - 19th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999.
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks 13th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.
SOUTH SUDAN – 6th Anniversary of South Sudan becoming an independent state.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 11GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.
MUMBAI - 11th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 12BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
BRUSSELS - Informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers (to July 13).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 13BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 14PARIS - Bastille Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 16BRUSSELS - EU-Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
HAMPSHIRE - Farnborough Air Show 2018 (to Jul. 22).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 17GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 18GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 20CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 21KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 7th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 22OSLO – 6th Anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 24BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 25BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2017 (to Aug. 29).
Pakistan - Pakistani National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 28GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.
GLOBAL – 104th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.
PERU - 197th Anniversary of Independence.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 29Cambodia - Cambodian National Assembly election. Mali - Presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 30Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean National Assembly election.
Zimbabwe – President election. Comoros – Referendum election. Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean Senate election.
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