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- BRUSSELS - Trade debate "Reforming the World Trade Organization: Can the United States and the European Union Find Common Ground?" with head of European Commission's trade unit Sabine Weyand – 1500 GMT.
- BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Margaritis Schinas and European Commissioner for culture and research Mariya Gabriel give a press conference on resuming safely activities in the cultural and creative industries – 1130 GMT.
- WARSAW - The Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets visits Warsaw for talks with her Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau – 1400 GMT.
- BUDAPEST - Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger will visit Budapest where he meets his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban and Hungary's head of parliament. Heger and Orban to hold a news conference – 1000 GMT.
ROME - Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will visit Italy. (To July 1)
RIYADH – President of the Gambia Adama Barrow will travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for an official visit and the President will be accompanied by Her Excellency, First Lady Fatou Bah-Barrow and other high ranking officials.(Final day).
DUSHANBE – President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov will pay an official visit to Tajikistan (Final day). MATERA, ITALY - G20 foreign ministers meet in the southern Italian city of Matera for a 3-day summit (to Jun. 30).
BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis takes part in Politico's Competitive Europe Summit, also at the Brussels Economic Forum – 0730 GMT.
MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez meets the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Pere Aragonès – 1500 GMT. VIENNA - Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde, this year's chairperson-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, holds a news conference with OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid on their work this year – 0720 GMT.
ABU DHABI – Foreign Minister of Israel Yair Lapid will travel to the United Arab Emirates, will be hosted by UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan (To June 30). BRUSSELS - Brussels Economic Forum conference with speakers including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ECB President Christine Lagarde, EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni and WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - 1000 GMT ROME – India's external affairs minister S Jaishankar will be in Italy's Matera on 29th June for the G20 Foreign minister's (FM) meet.
MOSCOW - 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting Plus Experts' Working Group on Counter-Terrorism (to July 2).
PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 19th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash. BEJING/TAIPEI - 11th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30
- ANTALYA, Turkey - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in the southern Turkish province of Antalya. The two will discuss bilateral ties, the Black Sea region, Ukraine, Sputnik V vaccine production, regional issues, and later hold a joint news conference – 1330 GMT.
- LONDON - UK finance minister Rishi Sunak speaks on a panel at a green finance conference alongside UN climate envoy Mark Carney and the heads of UK banks – 1300 GMT.
- MADRID - Spain´s Economic Affairs minister Nadia Calviño participates in the opening of a political European Summit – 0830 GMT.
PARIS - OECD hosts global minimum tax talks with 139 countries. (To July 1)
LONDON - “World Economy” with IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath, World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart – 1200 GMT.
LISBON - High-level conference dedicated to recovery, with the participation of Slovenia Finance Minister Andrej Sircelj, France Economy, Finance and Recovery Minister Bruno Le Maire, Spain Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Economy and Digitalisation Nadia Calvino, and European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni – 1400 GMT.
BRUSSELS - President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen receives Mr Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Iraq.
JERUSALEM - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Israel. (To July 2)
PARIS - French president Emmanuel Macron welcomes his Argentinian and Mexican counterparts Alberto Ferndandez and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a gender equality summit with the UN. BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Dubravka Suica speaks on the EU's long-term vision for rural areas.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 1MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko take part in a forum of the regions of the two countries via video link.
VIENNA, Austria – 181st Meeting of the OPEC Conference. BANGKOK - 15th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus Experts’ Working Group on Maritime Security and Maritime Security Conference (video conference) (to July 2). VIENNA, Austria – 18th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting via videoconference.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 2LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a meeting. MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Bahrain's minister of foreign affairs, Abdullatif Al Zayani. GENEVA - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), give news conference on the latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. GLOBAL - World UFO Day on anniversary of the Roswell incident. SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena".
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 3GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 4UNITED STATES - Independence Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 5BERLIN - King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands visit Germany (To July 7).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 6BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis gives a press conference on the bloc's renewed sustainable finance strategy and a communication on Establishment of an EU green bond standard.
BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis gives a press conference on the bloc's new anti money-laundering legislative package.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 7KATHMANDU – 74th birthday of Nepal's deposed king, Gyanendra. LONDON - 16th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network that killed more than 50 and injured 700.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 9TEHRAN – 22nd anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999. RAMALLAH - Palestine marks the 16th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal. SOUTH SUDAN – 10th anniversary of South Sudan becoming an independent state.
VENICE, Italy - G20 Economy Ministers meet in Venice for a two-day summit, one of the main events of Italy's G20 presidency (To July 10)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 11SOFIA - Bulgaria to hold snap parliamentary election.
GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day. MUMBAI - 14th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
MOLDOVA - Moldovan Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 12BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal stance for 2022, corporate restructuring in post-COVID recovery – 1300 GMT.
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 13BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 14BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Commissioner for budget Johannes Hahn give a press conference on a proposal for an own resource’s decision.
BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference on an EU digital levy.
PARIS - Bastille Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 15WASHINGTON, D.C - U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel confer at the White House.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 17GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 18GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 20CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 21LISBON - Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa and government ministers hold State of the Nation's debate in Parliament with lawmakers KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida – 10th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after the successful completion of mission STS-135.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 22OSLO – 10th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 23BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 26MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his final State of the Nation Address.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 28GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day. GLOBAL – 107th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. PERU - 200th anniversary of independence.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 31PALESTINIAN - Palestinians hold presidential elections.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 1GLOBAL – World Breastfeeding Week (to Aug. 7).
WARSAW – Poland marks 77th anniversary of its war-time Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation.
CHINA – 94th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 2BRUNEI - 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (to August 7). BRUNEI - 22nd APT Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (APT FMM) (to August 7). BRUNEI - 11th EAS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (EAS FMM) (to August 7). BRUNEI – ASEAN Senior Economic Officials’ Meeting (SEOM) (To Aug. 4).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 3SINGAPORE - APEC Business Advisory Council (Virtual Meeting).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 6EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2021 (To Aug 30) HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Commemorations 76th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 9NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 76th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 12GLOBAL - International Youth Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 14PAKISTAN – 74th Anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 15JAPAN – 76th Anniversary of country's surrender in World War Two. INDIA – 74th Anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule. LIECHTENSTEIN – 215th Anniversary of Independence.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 19GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day. MOSCOW – 29th Anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 21SYRIA – 8th Anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighbourhoods on the edge of Damascus.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 23BALTIC WAY – 32nd 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.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 24POLAND - Poland marks the 32nd anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989. UKRAINE – 30th Anniversary of Independence. WASHINGTON – 209th Anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day. PARIS – 77th Anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 01VENICE, Italy - 71st Venice International Film Festival (To Sept 11).
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