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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, JUNE 24** TASHKENT - President of Mongolia, Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, arrived in Uzbekistan on a state visit at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. (Final day)
** GENEVA - The World Trade Organization's dispute settlement body holds a meeting – 0800 GMT.
** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris meets NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg in Paris, ahead of the July 9-10 NATO summit in Washington – 1500 GMT.
** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron welcome Jordan’s King Abdullah and Queen Rania at the Elysee Palace – 1400 GMT.
** ROME - Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban meet at Palazzo Chigi – 1800 GMT.
** JERUSALEM - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to give keynote at Herzliya Conference, an annual international security forum – 1630 GMT.
** COPENHAGEN - The Norwegian and the Danish defence ministers hold a press conference in Copenhagen about strengthening the security cooperation between Denmark and Norway – 1430 GMT.
** ROME - Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz takes part in European Social Economy meeting in Rome – 1200 GMT.
** PARIS - Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces, meets his counterparts, Boris Pistorius, German Federal Minister of Defense and Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister of Defense of Poland, in Paris, gives press conference – 0815 GMT.
** WASHINGTON DC – Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington to discuss Gaza war and escalating hostilities on the border with Lebanon.
** BRUSSELS - President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov will make a working visit to Belgium. (To June 26)
BEIJING - Nigeria's foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar will visit China. (To June 26) BEIJING - At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Polish President Andrzej Duda will pay a state visit to China. (To June 26)
CANBERRA - Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese will welcome the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Jeremiah Manele, to Australia. (To June 29)
TALLINN/ VILNIUS/ RIGA - King of Spain Felipe VI will pay an official visit to Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia (To June 25)
ROME/TALLINN - President of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam will visit Italy and Estonia. (June 26)
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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** BRUSSELS - EU Commissioners Ylva Johansson and Margaritis Schinas speak at the European Migration Network conference in Brussels.
** ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan hosts his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky for talks on bilateral ties. They are scheduled to hold a joint news conference – 0945 GMT.
** WARSAW - Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski holds a press conference alongside his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billstrom – 0130 GMT.
** BEIJING - President of Peru Dina Boluarte to visit china. (To June 29)
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
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** BRUSSELS - The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has invited Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for talks in Brussels as both countries have seen more tensions in the past months.
PRAGUE - Slovakia's new President Peter Pellegrini to visit Prague, meeting Czech President Petr Pavel - 0800 GMT WARSAW - Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski will meet with his counterparts from Romania, Luminița Odobescu, and Turkey, Hakan Fidan. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Margrethe Vestager, EU Commissioner for Competition is scheduled to speak at an Open Markets Institute event - 1600 GMT LONDON - Emperor of Japan Naruhito visits United Kingdom (to June 28) GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
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** PHNOM PENH - Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa will pay an official visit to Cambodia.
BRUSSELS - 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 1MAPUTO/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.
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** WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. hosts NATO'S 75th anniversary summit (July 11)
SUCRE - 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 – EU Informal meeting of energy ministers. (To July 16) BRUSSELS – 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 Informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers. (To July 23)
BRUSSELS – 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.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 1WARSAW – Poland marks 80th anniversary of its war-time Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation. CHINA – 97th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army. GLOBAL – World Breastfeeding Week (To Aug. 7)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 2EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 (To Aug 26)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 6HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Commemorations 79th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 9NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 79th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 10EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug 26)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 12GLOBAL - International Youth Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – 77th Anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 15NEW DELHI, India – 77th Anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule. TOKYO, Japan – 79th Anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two. LIECHTENSTEIN – 218th Anniversary of Independence.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TRALEE, Ireland - 2024 Rose of Tralee International Festival (To Aug 20)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 19GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day. MOSCOW – 32nd Anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21DAMASCUS, Syria - 11th Anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighborhoods on the edge of Damascus.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 23BALTIC WAY - 35th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 24WARSAW, Poland - Poland marks the 35th anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989. KYIV, Ukraine – 33rd Anniversary of Independence. WASHINGTON DC – 212th Anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 25URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day. PARIS – 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.
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