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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, MAY 1** WASHINGTON DC - Bongbong Marcos President of the Philippines arrives in the United States for a 5-day official visit (To May 4)
** ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Burak Akçapar will pay a working visit to Addis Ababa (To May 4)
** MALE - Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defence of India, will embark on an official 3-day visit to the Maldives (To May 3)
** RIYADH - Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan will pay official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (To May 3)
** WASHINGTON DC - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov at the George Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center.
** AMMAN - Jordan hosts a meeting of Arab foreign ministers and Syria's top diplomat on Monday to discuss Syria's return to the Arab League as part of a broader political settlement of Syria's more than decade-old conflict SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables. (final day)
BERN - Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi visits Switzerland (final day) BEIJING - Mongolian Foreign Minister Battsetseg Batmunkh will visit China (To May 2)
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for talks at the White House. VATICAN CITY – 12th anniversary of beatification ceremony of late Pope John Paul II.
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** BERLIN - President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a visit to Germany (To May 3)
** MADRID - President of the Republic of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, will pay a State visit to Spain (To May 5)
** BERLIN - U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers an opening statement via video link to the Petersberg Climate Conference - 0830 GMT
** GENEVA - Mokgweetsi Masisi, the President of Botswana, delivers a lecture at the World Trade Organization. - 0930 GMT
** VIENNA - Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg holds a news conference with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias. - 0945 GMT
** DOHA - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene meeting of Afghanistan envoys in Doha - 1200 GMT
** BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz receives Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Berlin - 1600 GMT
** BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti take part in EU-backed talks on the impementation of their agreement to move towards normalising relations. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to give statement after talks. - 1600 GMT LONDON - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to the United Kingdom (To May 6)
BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner holds a news conference after the 27th meeting of the Stability Council on public budgets on the state and federal levels. - 1300 GMT INCHEON, South Korea - Finance ministers and central bank governors of South Korea, China, and Japan hold a trilateral meeting in Incheon on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) annual meeting. ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – The day marks the 12th 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. GLOBAL - World Asthma Day
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** DAMASCUS - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Syria and will hold talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad.
** MADRID - Colombia's President Gustavo Petro is received with military honours at Royal Palace by Spain's Royals King Felipe and Queen Letizia ahead of state visit. - 0900 GMT BERLIN - German President Frank Walter Steinmeier receives Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Berlin. - 0800 GMT ASTANA - President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan. (Till May 4)
BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Moritz Schularick, speak about new business models for the German economy - 1500 GMT. GLOBAL - World Press Freedom Day
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** MANAMA - Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan will pay official visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain (To May 5)
** MADRID - President of Colombia Gustavo Petro takes part in Spanish-Colombian business meeting organized by the Spanish Confederation of Business, CEOE - 0745 GMT
** BRUSSELS - Brussels Economic Forum "Building a new competitive model for Europe" - EU conference with speakers including Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, Spanish economy minister Nadia Calvino, Eurogroup president Pascal Donohoe and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis - 0900 GMT
** MADRID - Spain´s prime minister Pedro Sanchez meets president of Colombia Gustavo Petro to attend the bilateral summit Spain-Colombia - 1030 GMT GOA, India - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov joins the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Goa, India. (to May 5) GOA, India - Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) foreign ministers meeting in India. (Till May 5) GOA, India - The foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, comprising China, Russia, India and other central Asian countries, meet in Goa. (Till May 5) BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of health ministers. (to May 5)
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 8MOSCOW - Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov will make an official visit to Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
GLOBAL - World Red Cross Red and Crescent Day. BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner gives a keynote address at a conference for German tax advisers - 1315 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 9BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the European Parliament. LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom - 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. (To May 13) LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - 42nd ASEAN Summit. (to May 11) LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting. (to May 11)
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** LONDON - Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema, AfCFTA Secretary General Wamkele Mene and some other business leaders are speaking at the Africa Debate conference in London. NIIGATA, Japan - G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Niigata. (till May 13) BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich. (till May 12)
INDONESIA - Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in the first summit of the year in Indonesia.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 12GLOBAL - International Nurse's Day KORNIK, Poland - European affairs ministers of Poland, France and Germany and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Olha Stefanishyna, are due to meet in Kornik, Western Poland. STOCKHOLM - EU foreign ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 13STOCKHOLM - Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom and the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell jointly host the "EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum" in Stockholm within the framework of the Swedish EU presidency. MAURITANIA - Mauritanian National Assembly Election
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 14GERMANY - The German state of Bremen holds elections.
THAILAND - Thailand holds a general election. TURKEY - Grand National Assembly of Turkey Election. TURKEY - Presidency of Turkey Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 15COPENHAGEN - Czech President Petr Pavel hosts press conference at Global Democracy Summit in Copenhagen - 1300 GMT. GLOBAL - U.N. International Day of Families. BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 16LISBON – 11th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders. BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 17GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 18GLOBAL - International Museum Day
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 19HIROSHIMA - Japan to host summit of G7 leaders. (to May 21)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 21GENEVA - WHO, World Health Assembly, Seventy-sixth session (to May 30) DILI - Timorese National Parliament Election GREECE - Greece holds parliamentary election
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** PORT MORESBY - United States President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation in Port Moresby.
GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 23BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) Meeting.
GENEVA - Switzerland holds a ministerial debate on the themes it will raise as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 24SYDNEY - U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Sydney next month for the first meeting of Quad leaders on Australian soil. Biden will join Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 25DETROIT, United States – APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting (till May 26)
BRUSSELS - Meeting of EU trade ministers
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 30MIAMI, FL - Miami Beach International Fashion Week (till June 4) BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 31GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day OSLO - Norway to host meeting of NATO foreign ministers. (till June 1)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 8LUXEMBOURG - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. (till June 9)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 11MONTENEGRO - Montenegrin Assembly Election
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 15LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 16LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 20BRUSSELS - Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima on state visit to Belgium. (Till June 22)
SATURDAY, JUNE 24 SIERRA LEONE - Presidency of Sierra Leone Election. SIERRA LEONE - Sierra Leonean Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 25GUATEMALA - Guatemalan Congress of the Republic Election. GUATEMALA - Presidency of Guatemala Election.
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