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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, JUNE 20** BANGKOK - Bendito dos Santos Freitas, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is scheduled to pay an official visit to Thailand. (To June 21)
** PARIS - French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal holds a press conference entitled, "The day after", to talk about the key measures in his party's programme for the hundred days after the upcoming French parliamentary elections, at the headquarters of the presidential majority group "Ensemble pour la République" in Paris. - 0700 GMT
** ATHENS - Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will meet Enrique Manalo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, in Athens. The meeting follows the sinking of the Greek-owned Tudor carrier after an attack by Iran-aligned Houthis in the Red Sea. Its crew was mostly Filipino. - 0900 GMT
** VIENNA - Austria hosts a meeting of foreign ministers and other officials from 14 countries along the Danube and its tributaries. The foreign minsisters of Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Moldova are due to attend - 1530 GMT PYONGYANG/HANOI - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea and Vietnam. (Final day)
WELLINGTON/CANBERRA/KUALA LUMPUR - Premier of the People's Republic of China, Li Qiang will visit New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia. (Final day) SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2024 (To June 23) TOKYO - Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon will travel to Japan. (Final day) BRUSSELS / LUXEMBOURG - Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang will attend the fifth China-European Union High-Level Environment and Climate Dialogue in Brussels, Belgium and pay a visit to Luxembourg. (to June 21) BEIJING - Nigeria's foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar will visit China. (To June 26) BODO, Norway - Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian and Swedish prime ministers Jonas Gahr Stoere and Ulf Kristersson meet in Bodo in northern Norway. (Final day) BRUSSELS - European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaks at Austria World Summit, Arnold Schwarzenegger's 8th environmental conference - 0800 GMT SEOUL - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck speaks in Seoul - 0900 GMT COLOMBO - Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will arrive in Sri Lanka on an official visit. GLOBAL - World Refugee Day. LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 21
** NEW DELHI - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits New Delhi for a summit meeting with her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi. (to June 22)
** MADRID - Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, along with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, holds the first Spain-Qatar Strategic Dialogue in Madrid - 0900 GMT
** MADRID - Qatarsi Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani visits Spain and meets King Felipe VI. - 1430 GMT BEIJING - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck speaks in Beijing MADRID - Argentina's President Javier Milei to receive Juan de Mariana Institute award for "an exemplary defence of the ideas of freedom".
GLOBAL - International Yoga Day. LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 22** BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Polish President Andrzej Duda will pay a state visit to China. (To June 26)
** LONDON - Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrive in the UK ahead of a state visit.
** SHANGHAI, China (PRC) - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck speaks in Shangai - 1030 GMT CHAD - Chad holds second round of presidential election
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 23** HANGZHOU, China (PRC) - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck speaks at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou - 0700 GMT
Tallinn/ Vilnius/ Riga - King of Spain Felipe VI will pay an official visit to Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia (To June 25)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 24** AMSTERDAM - The Emir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, will pay an official visit to the Netherlands.
** CZECH REPUBLIC – Argentina President Javier Milei visits Prague
GENEVA - Geneva hosts the ministerial meeting of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). - 0845 GMT BERLIN - 76th 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. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council.
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** THIMPHU - The official visit to the Kingdom of Thailand of His Excellency Dasho Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, and his spouse. (To June 28)
** MOSCOW - President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, is visiting Russia and plans to meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
LOS ANGELES - 15th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 26LONDON - Emperor of Japan Naruhito visits United Kingdom (to June 28) GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 27Brussels - European Council meeting (to June 28).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 28IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF - Iranian President election.
Mongolia - Mongolian State Great Hural election.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 29MAURITANIA - Mauritanian Presidency Election.
PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 22nd anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.
BEJING/TAIPEI - 14th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 30FRANCE - French National Assembly Election (First round)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 1** MAPUTO/LUANDA - President of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta, will pay state visits to Mozambique and Angola. (To July 13)
CHINA – 103rd founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 2GLOBAL - World UFO Day on the anniversary of the Roswell incident.
SIENA - July annual horse race, "Palio di Siena".
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 3KAZAKHSTAN - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to attend the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Kazakhstan's capital Astana. (to July 4)
ASTANA - Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in SCO summit in Astana (to July 4)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 4UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND - British House of Commons Election.
UNITED STATES - Independence Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 6BAKU - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visits Azerbaijan
GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 7FRANCE - French National Assembly Election (Second round)
KATHMANDU - 77th birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.
LONDON - 19th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, in which more than 50 people where killed and 700 injured.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 9SUCRE - 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.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 11GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.
MUMBAI - 17th anniversary of the deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 14PARIS - Bastille Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 15BRUSSELS – 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 16BRUSSELS - 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 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 28GLOBAL - 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.
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