May 5 (Reuters) -
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-------------------------------------------------------------------- This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events-------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, MAY 5** MAPUTO/ PORT LOUIS - State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Yamada Kenji, to visit the Republic of Mozambique and the Republic of Mauritius (till May 6)
** HANOI - Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, on an official visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (till May 5)
** BERLIN - German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and his Danish counterpart, Troels Lund Poulsen visit a military base west of Berlin where Ukrainian soldiers undergo maintenance training on Leopard 1A5 tanks. - 0930 GMT
LONDON - Narayan Prakash Saud, minister of foreign affairs of Nepal, travels to the United Kingdom tomorrow to attend the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty the Queen Consort. (till May 9)
LONDON - Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah, XVI Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Her Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda the Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah Binti Almarhum Al-Mutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al- Haj will undertake a Special Visit to London, United Kingdom (till May 14)
NAYPYIDAW/ NEW DELHI - Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Myanmar and India (final day).
MADRID - President of the Republic of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, will pay a State visit to Spain (final day)
LONDON - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to the United Kingdom (till May 6)
LONDON - Halimah Yacob President of Singapore will visit London, United Kingdom (To May 7)
LONDON - Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh will make an official visit to the United Kingdom (UK) (To May 10)
PHNOM PENH - Thongloun Sisoulith President of Laos will pay a state visit to Cambodia (till May 6)
MANAMA - India's Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs, V. Muraleedharan, will pay official visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain (final day)
GOA, India - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov joins the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Goa, India. (final day)
GOA, India - Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) foreign ministers meeting in India. (final day)
GOA, India - The foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, comprising China, Russia, India and other central Asian countries, meet in Goa. (final day)
BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of health ministers. (final day)
ISLAMABAD - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Pakistan and attend the China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Dialogue. (To May 6)
LONDON - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins in Downing Street - 0930 GMT.
LONDON - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet the Emir of Qatar in Downing Street - 1030 GMT.
LONDON - Jagdeep Dhankhar, Vice President of India, will be visiting London, United Kingdom (UK) (To May 6)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 6GITEGA - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend DRC peace summit.
ISLAMABAD - Taliban’s foreign minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi to travel to Islamabad to meet Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang (till May 9)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 7LISBON/ AMSTERDAM - Han Zheng, vice president of the People's Republic of China, to visit Portugal and the Netherlands. (To May 12)
SEOUL - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits South Korea for a summit with President Yoon Suk Yeol (till May 8)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 8** MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez meets UN chief Antonio Guterres in Madrid.
** VIENNA - Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and his South Korean counterpart Han Duck-soo give statements to the media after a meeting. - 1645 GMT
** BERLIN - Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck and European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager take part in a talk on how the interplay between state and market can succeed. - 1700 GMT
MOSCOW - 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 9** TOKYO - Zbigniew Rau Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland will visit Tokyo and Hiroshima (to May 12)
** CACERES, Spain - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will delivers remarks when he receives the Carlos V European Award, at a ceremony at the Royal Monastery of Yuste. - 0900 GMT
** BERLIN - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck holds a news conference with his Norwegian counterpart, Jan Christian Vestre, after visiting Siemens Energy Sphere and taking part in a roundtable discussion on hydrogen. - 1050 GMT
BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the European Parliament.
LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom - 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. (till May 13)
LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - 42nd ASEAN Summit. (to May 11)
LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting. (till May 11)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 10** LONDON - Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema speaks at Zambia investment event in London
MOSCOW - A meeting of Turkish, Syrian and Russian foreign ministers could be held in Moscow.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 11** BRUSSELS - European Union Military Committee meeting.
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)
INDONESIA - Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in the first summit of the year in Indonesia.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 12GYMNICH, Germany - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers
GLOBAL - 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 13BERLIN - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make an official visit to Berlin and Aachen (To May 14)
NIIGATA, Japan - G7 finance ministers' meeting host country Japan holds conclusion news conference.
STOCKHOLM - 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 16** MOSCOW - Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik will visit the Russian Federation (To May 17)
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will host Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to strengthen the bilateral relationship between the two countries.
LISBON – 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
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 22PORT 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 31LATVIA - Latvian parliament elects the president
GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day
OSLO - Norway to host meeting of NATO foreign ministers. (till June 1)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 2** SINGAPORE - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is to deliver keynote address at the opening of the Shangri-La Dialogue Asia security summit in Singapore.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 8** NAIROBI - Kenya's Finance Minister Njuguna Ndung'u presents the 2023/24 (July-June) budget to parliament - 1100 GMT
LUXEMBOURG - 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)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council meeting (till June 22)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 23ANAHEIM, United States - Asia-Pacific (APAC) 2023 Annual Meetings (till July 1)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 24SIERRA 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.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 26LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 27LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 29BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (till June 30)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 5VIENNA - 8th OPEC International Seminar (till July 6)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 14** PARIS - On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the India-France Strategic Partnership, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to attend Bastille Day Parade as Guest of Honour in Paris.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 17** BRUSSELS - EU-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) summit (to July 18)
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