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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, MARCH 21** MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Moscow. – 0900 GMT
** CANBERRA - UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron holds a bilateral meeting with Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong.
** PRAGUE - The foreign ministers of the Visegard (V4) group of countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - meet in Prague. – 1030 GMT
** BERLIN - Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hold a joint news conference in Berlin. – 1400 GMT
** SAN JOSE - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo will meet with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves in a visit to the Central American country, where she will also launch a "national semiconductor strategy."
** CAIRO - Arab foreign ministers and a top Palestinian official will meet U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cairo. TOKYO/ULAANBAATAR - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell will travel to Japan and Mongolia. (To Mar. 23) ANKARA - Jose Manuel Albares Bueno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, will pay an official visit to Türkiye. (Final Day) SINGAPORE - President of French Polynesia Moetai Brotherson will visit Singapore (To Mar. 27)
DHAKA - Swedish Crown Princess Victoria will stay in Bangladesh (Final Day)
JERUSALEM/ABU DHABI/CAIRO/RIYADH - Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will visit the Palestinian territories, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (To Mar. 24)
CANBERRA/WELLINGTON - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Australia and New Zealand. (Final Day)
DHAKA - Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria will visit Bangladesh. (Final Day)
BILBAO, Spain - WindEurope holds its annual event in Bilbao, Spain. European Commission Executive Vice President Maros Sefcovic and Spain's Energy Minister Teresa Ribera are among the speakers (To Mar. 22) BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, meets Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob, at NATO Headquarters, they give a press conference - 0830 GMT. MANILA - Philippine Finance Secretary Ralph Recto administers the oath of officers of the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines.
COPENHAGEN - Around 40 climate leaders and ministers meet in Copenhagen to discuss the path towards the COP29 in Azerbaijan in November (To Mar. 22) BRUSSELS - European Council (To Mar. 22)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MARCH 22BERLIN - French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu hold talks with Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius in Berlin - 0920 GMT. STARY SACZ, POLAND - New Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok visits Poland on his first foreign trip, meets Polish President Andrzej Duda to celebrate Polish-Hungarian Friendship Day. BRUSSELS - Euro Summit. GLOBAL - World Water Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MARCH 23BEIJING - The Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, will visit China. (To Mar. 29) SINGAPORE/MANILA/KAULA LUMPUR - Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, at the invitation of his counterparts, will be on an official visit to Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia (To Mar. 27) SLOVAKIA - Slovakian Presidency election. GLOBAL - World Meteorological Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 24
** OTTAWA - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to visit Canada. (To March 25) SENEGAL - Senegal holds presidential election. GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MARCH 25** ASTANA - Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will pay an official visit to Astana.
** WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo to the White House.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MARCH 26** WASHINGTON - Kazakh Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu will hold negotiations with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during an official visit to the United States.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MARCH 28BRASILIA - Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is scheduled to receive his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in the presidential palace in Brasilia.
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** BEIJING - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu will pay an official visit to China. (To March 30) DUBAI - HORSE RACING - 2024 Dubai World Cup.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 2GLOBAL - World Autism Awareness Day
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina marks 42nd anniversary of start of Falklands war. LUANG PRABANG, Laos - 11th ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting (11th AFMGM) (To April 5)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3VILNIUS - Norway's Crown Prince Haakon will visit Lithuania from April 3-4 and meet with the country's president and Norwegian troops serving in NATO's multinational battlegroup stationed in Rukla.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 4GLOBAL - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. KUWAIT - Kuwaiti National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 7GLOBAL - World Health Organisation observes World Health Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 8WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – 13th anniversary of signing a bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, START-2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).
GLOBAL - International Roma Nation Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10SOUTH KOREA - South Korean National Assembly Election. SMOLENSK, Russia/CRACOW, Poland - 14th Anniversary of the Smolensk Tragedy to be held in Smolensk, Russia, as well as in Poland. WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 11FRANCE – 13th Anniversary of the French law banning the burqa and niqab.
ABIDJAN – 13th anniversary of the arrest of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by supporters of president-elect Alassane Ouattara with the help of French forces, thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war.
AUGUSTA, United States - U.S. Masters Golf 2024 (to April 14).
LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 12GLOBAL - International Day of Human Space Flight. SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to Apr 22). LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 15BOSTON - 2024 Boston Marathon. BELFAST/NEW YORK – 111th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of energy ministers. (To April 16)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 16OTTAWA - Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will present the 2024-25 budget to parliament - 2000 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17CROATIA - Croatian Assembly Election. SOLOMON ISLANDS - Solomon Islander National Parliament Election. AMSTERDAM - Queen Letizia and King Felipe VI of Spain will make a state visit to the Netherlands, at the invitation of the King of the Netherlands. (To April 18)
ROME - G7 foreign ministers meet on Italian island of Capri. (To April 19)
BRUSSELS - Special European Council. (to April 18)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 18WASHINGTON DC - G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 19INDIA - Indian People's Assembly Election. WASHINGTON DC - Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and IMF, Spring meetings. (To April 21)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 20UNITED STATES - 14th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. TOGO - Togolese National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 21MALDIVES - Maldivian People's Council Election. LONDON - 2024 London Marathon.
PARIS – 63rd anniversary of the first manned mission to space. ECUADOR – Ecuador Referendum Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 22GLOBAL - Earth Day. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council. NEW YORK, United states - Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up, including the special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. (To April 25)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 23BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of health ministers. (To April 24) STOCKHOLM - Finnish President Alexander Stubb visits Sweden on his first state trip since taking office on March 1. GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24NORTH MACEDONIA - North Macedonian Presidency Election.
GLOBAL - World Immunization Week 2024 (to April 30).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 25GLOBAL - World Malaria Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 28PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania – 26th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. VENICE, Italy - Pope Francis visits Venice.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 29BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council. (To April 30)
LONDON – 13th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 1VATICAN CITY – 13th anniversary of beatification ceremony of late Pope John Paul II.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 2ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – The day marks the 13th year since Al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. special forces raid, ending a near decade-long worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 3GLOBAL - World Press Freedom Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 5PANAMA - Panamanian Presidency Election. PANAMA - Panamanian National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 6CHAD - Chadian Presidency Election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 7BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) Meeting. GLOBAL - World Asthma Day. MALMÖ ARENA, SWEDEN - 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. (To May 11)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 8NORTH MACEDONIA - North Macedonian Assembly Election. GLOBAL - World Red Cross Red and Crescent Day.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 12LITHUANIA - Lithuanian Presidency Election. LITHUANIA – Referendum Election. GLOBAL - International Nurse's Day
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 13Brussels - Eurogroup Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 14BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 15GLOBAL - U.N. International Day of Families.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 16LISBON – 12th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 17GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 18GLOBAL - International Museum Day
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 19DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican Senate Election. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican Chamber of Deputies Election. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican Presidency Election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 21BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 22GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 23STRESA, ITALY - G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meet in Stresa, Italy, to debate global economic developments. (To May 25)
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Kenyan President William Ruto for state visit to mark 60th anniversary of U.S.-Kenya diplomatic relations.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 29VANUATU - Referendum Election. MADAGASCAR - Malagasy National Assembly Election. SOUTH AFRICA - South African National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 30PRAGUE - NATO Foreign Affairs ministers hold an informal meeting in Prague (To May 31)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 31GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day.
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