News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from June 3

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    FRIDAY, JUNE 3 
    
    • BERLIN - Ukraine's parliamentary speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk meets Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellevue Palace in Berlin - 1030 GMT
    • PRAGUE - Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman visits Prague, meets his Czech counterpart, Jan Lipavsky and followed by a news conference - 1130 GMT
    • WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod at the State Department - 1500 GMT
    • MOSCOW - The working group led by the Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan dealing with the unblocking of regional communications will meet in Moscow.

    NUKU'ALOFA - Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong visits Tonga.

    BERLIN - Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes Hungary President Katalin Novak – 0800 GMT

    BRUSSELS - EU trade ministers meet in Brussels.

    RIGA - Greece's President Katerina Sakellaropoulou visits Latvia (Final Day).

    TASHKENT – President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon will make official visit to Uzbekistan (Final Day)

    WASHINGTON DC - Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod visits Washington DC, U.S. where he will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss the war in Ukraine. (Final Day) NOUAKCHOTT - Queen Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano of Spain heads to Mauritania for a three-day visit.(Final Day)

    WASHINGTON DC - Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin will visit Washington DC. (To June 4)

    PRAGUE - The 2022 annual Globsec Bratislava Forum takes place in the Slovak capital, with speakers such as the EU's Margrethe Vestager, Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and others among the expected speakers. (To June 4)

    HONIARA/ TARAWA/ APIA/ SUVA/ NUKU'ALOFA/ PORT VILA/ PORT MORESBY/ DILI - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay an official visit to the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and East Timor. (To June 4)

    STOCKHOLM/ COPENHAGEN/ OSLO - Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah will undertake an official visit to Sweden, Denmark and Norway (To June 5)

    Nur-Sultan/ Tashkent/ Ulaanbaatar - Poland's foreign minister Zbigniew Rau is scheduled to visit Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia this week in his role as chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (To June 6)

    BRATISLAVA/PRAGUE - Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will pay an official visit to Slovakia and the Czech Republic. (To June 6)

    LIBREVILLE/DAKAR/DOHA - Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu will visit Gabon, Senegal and Qatar. (To June 7)

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    SATURDAY, JUNE 4 
    

    CHILE – 11th anniversary of Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia.

    HONG KONG - Tens of thousands attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.

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    SUNDAY, JUNE 5 
    

    MEXICO CITY - Mexican states hold governor election.

    JAKARTA - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong to visit Jakarta and meet Indonesian counterparts. (To June 7)

    GLOBAL - World Environment Day.

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    MONDAY, JUNE 6 
    

    OTTAWA - President of Chile Gabriel Boric will visit Canada.

    SEOUL - South Korea marks the 67th anniversary of Memorial Day.

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    TUESDAY, JUNE 7 
    
    • PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris to discuss the Ukraine situation and EU sanctions on Russia - 1100 GMT
    • STRASBOURG - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell answers questions in parliament on Ukraine. - 1530 GMT

    VILNIUS - German chancellor Olaf Scholz travels to Lithuania and visit EU and NATO partner and show solidarity amid Ukraine-war.

    PARIS – Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to discuss EU-level discussions on Ukraine, energy independence and ecological transition - 1600 GMT.

    KINSHASA - Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will take an official visit to Democratic Republic of Congo, leading a delegation that will also include Belgium's prime minister and other officials (to June 13).

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    SINGAPORE - State Councilor and Defense Minister of China General Wei Fenghe will attend the 19th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue and visit Singapore upon invitation. (June 12)

    ANKARA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit Turkey. Lavrov, accompanied by a military delegation, will arrive in Turkey.

    PARIS - OECD 2022 Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM) (To June 10)

    MADRID - Spain´s economy minister Nadia Calviño participates in a two-day forum organized by Expansion paper (To June 9)

    SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2020 (to June 19)

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    THURSDAY, JUNE 9 
    

    VATICAN CITY - Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala will meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican.

    LUXEMBOURG – EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. (To June 10)

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    FRIDAY, JUNE 10 
    

    BUCHAREST - Romanian President Klaus Iohannis convenes a meeting of his counterparts from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia in the Bucharest 9 format of central and eastern European countries in NATO and the EU.

    SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2020 (to June 19)

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    SUNDAY, JUNE 12 
    

    GENEVA, Switzerland - Opening of WTO's 164 member states Ministerial Conference in Geneva (To June 15)

    PARIS, France - Election for National Assembly of France.

    GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour (ILO)

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    MONDAY, JUNE 13 
    

    JERUSALEM, Israel / Palestinian Territories - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories (To June 14)

    JERUSALEM, Israel / Palestinian Territories - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to meet Israeli and Palestinian officials during a three-day-visit to the region (To June 15)

    GENEVA, Switzerland - 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council (to July 8)

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    TUESDAY, JUNE 14 
    

    KAMPALA - Uganda's Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija, presents the 2022/23 (July-June) budget speech to parliament.

    DODOMA - Tanzania's finance minister, Mwigulu Nchemba, presents the 2022/23 (July-June) fiscal budget to parliament – 1300 GMT

    GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.

    GAZA - 15th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.

    GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).

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    THURSDAY, JUNE 16 
    

    LUXEMBOURG - Euro zone finance ministers meet on ERM2, digital euro, fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT

    LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting.

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    FRIDAY, JUNE 17 
    

    LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.

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

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    SUNDAY, JUNE 19 
    

    PARIS, France - Election for National Assembly of France.

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    MONDAY, JUNE 20 
    

    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 
    

    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 
    

    BERLIN - International Air Show (to June 25).

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    THURSDAY, JUNE 23 
    

    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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    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 
    

    MADRID - NATO Summit is be held in Madrid (to June 30)

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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 
    

    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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    MONDAY, JULY 11 
    

    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 - 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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    THURSDAY, JULY 14 
    

    PARIS - Bastille Day.

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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 
    

    HAMPSHIRE - Farnborough International Airshow 2022 (to Jul 22)

    GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.

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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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    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)

    SUNDAY, JULY 31

    KINSHASA, Congo - Election for Congolese National Assembly

    DAKAR, Senegal - Election for Senegalese National Assembly

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