News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from June 7

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    TUESDAY, JUNE 7 
    
    • ATHENS - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias meets his Montenegro counterpart Ranko Krivokapić to discuss Ukraine and Western Balkans bid to join the European Union - 0700 GMT.
    • RAMALLAH - German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck meets Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in Ramallah - 1000 GMT.
    • ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's finance minister Ahmed Shide to present to parliament the 2022/23 budget - 1030 GMT.
    • ISTANBUL - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu holds a joint news conference with his North Macedonian counterpart Bujar Osmani - 1045 GMT.
    • ISLAMABAD - German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock visits Pakistan (to June 8).
    • PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia – Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah will be hosting his Saudi Arabia counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan during his inaugural two-day official visit (to June 8).

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

    JAKARTA - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong to visit Jakarta and meet Indonesian counterparts. (final day) GENEVA - WTO "stocktaking" meeting on what ministerial conference could achieve. PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris to discuss EU-level discussions on Ukraine, energy independence and ecological transition - 1600 GMT.

    ISLAMABAD - German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock visits Pakistan - 0745 GMT.

    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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    • SEOUL - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman holds a joint news conference in Seoul with South Korea's vice foreign minister Cho Hyun-dong and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori after their trilateral meeting - 0300 GMT.

    HANOI - Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be on an official visit to Vietnam (to June 10).

    MADRID - Spain´s economy minister Nadia Calvino inaugurates the South Summit in La Nave - 0830 GMT.

    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 Calvino, energy minister Teresa Ribera, industry minister Reyes Maroto and foreign affairs minister Jose Manuel Albares participate 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 
    
    • SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during her visit to Sydney (to June 10).
    • COPENHAGEN - Former NATO gen secratary Anders Fogh Rasmussen will host Barack Obama, Lithuanian Prime Minister Simonyte, President of European Parliament Roberta Metsola, Belarusian opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya, Microsoft President Brad Smith and others at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit.

    MADRID - Spain´s economy minister Nadia Calvino participates in the opening of the Invest EU program in Spain - 0730 GMT. PARIS - The OECD holds the opening ceremony for its annual ministerial meeting in Paris, with the theme "The future we want: better policies for the next generation and sustainable transition." - 0800 GMT.

    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 
    

    THESSALONIKI, Greece - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Thessaloniki in northern Greece. MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin meets the new Turkmen president, Serdar Berdymukhamedov, on his first visit to Moscow.

    BRUSSELS - EU ministers discuss hosting Ukraine refugees and their Schengen area of open borders.

    PARIS - OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann and Italian Finance Minister Daniele Franco give a news conference at the end of the OECD's annual ministerial meeting - 1330 GMT.

    BERLIN - Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes Moldovan President Maia Sandu for a meeting at Bellevue Palace in Berlin - 0930 GMT. 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 
    
    • WELLINGTON - Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa will visit Aotearoa New Zealand this month, 60 years after the Treaty of Friendship between the two countries was signed.

    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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    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 
    

    BRUSSELS - Defence ministers help prepare the NATO summit in Madrid on June 28/29, with discussions expected to focus on Ukraine. Finland, Georgia, Sweden, Ukraine expected to join meeting and Secretary General Stoltenberg will brief the media.

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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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