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- JOHOR – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visits Malaysia
- BUCHAREST - Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda pays official visit to Romania
- Georgetown – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro in official visit to Guyana. NEW DELHI - Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio will pay an official visit to India (final day).
JAKARTA/ HANOI/ BANGKOK/ ROME/ LONDON - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kisida will visit several Asian and European countries. (final day)
Washington D.C - Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan will pay a working visit to the United States of America to participate in the session of Armenia-US Strategic Dialogue. (final day).
BUCHAREST / BRATISLAVA – U S. First lady Jill Biden will visit Romania and Slovakia (to May 9)
NEW YORK – Maldives Vice President Faisal Naseem on Sunday evening departed on an official visit to New York City, the United States of America. The Vice President is accompanied by his spouse Aishath Shamsadha and a high-level delegation. (To May 11) FLORENCE, Italy - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks at a European University Institute event in Florence called "A Europe Fit for the Next Generation?" - 1000 GMT
SLIAC, Slovakia - German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht travels to Slovakia.
GEORGETOWN - President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro in official visit to Guyana.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Mexican President Lopez Obrador in official visit to El Salvador
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 7TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Mexican President Lopez Obrador in official visit to Honduras
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 8WASHINGTON DC - Finland’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering Tytti Tuppurainen will be in Washington and attend the Munich Leaders Meeting hosted by the Munich Security Conference and hold bilateral meetings with several colleagues. (to May 11).
HAVANA - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives in Cuba (to May 9). GLOBAL - World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 9BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron meet for talks in Berlin and speak to reporters beforehand, with the focus expected to be the war in Ukraine. - 1610 GMT
JERUSALEM - President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso visits Israel (to May 12).
STRASBOURG, France - French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be among the speakers at an event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg at which a report on the final outcome of the Conference on the Future of Europe will be presented. - 1000 GMT
BERLIN - Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo meets German federal president Steinmeier in official visit in Berlin, followed by a speech at the Friedrich-Naumann foundation. MANILA, Philippines - Philippine Senate election.
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine House of Representatives election.
MANILA, Philippines - Presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 10
- TOKYO - Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin will visit Japan and meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (May 12).
Ankara – President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits Turkey (to May 11)
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy to White House to discuss "ongoing coordination with Allies and partners on measures to support of the people of Ukraine and to impose economic costs on Russia for its unprovoked aggression." BERLIN - Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo meets German chancellor Scholz in official visit in Berlin, followed by a roundtable on Belgo-German cooperation in relation to hydrogen.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
TURIN, Italy, - 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (To May 14).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 12
- OTTAWA - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and her husband, Pieter van Vollenhoven visits Canada (to May 16). **TOKYO - EU-Japan summit WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden will host leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Washington (to May 13)
GLOBAL - International Nurse's Day.
WEISSENHAUS, Germany - G7 Foreign Minister meeting in Weissenhaus,Schleswig-Holstein (To May 14)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 13
- STUTTGART, Germany - Ukraine Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi attends G7 Agriculture Minister meeting in Stuttgart - 0800 GMT DUSHANBE – Foreign Ministers of Armenian Ararat Mirzoyan, Azerbaijani Jeyhun Bayramov, Russian Sergey Lavrov will meet in Dushanbe.
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden hosts leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Washington D.C.
- - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 14BERLIN - Germany hosts an informal meeting for NATO foreign ministers in Berlin to discuss strengthening the alliance in the light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (To May 15).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 15BERN, Switzerland - Referendum Election.
PARIS - EU Commission Vice-Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager meet their U.S. counterparts in the Paris suburb of Saclay to discuss transatlantic issues and how to counter China's dominance in key technologies (To May 16).
GLOBAL - U.N. International Day of Families.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 16WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden meets with the Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis at White House.
LISBON – 10th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders.
BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 17STOCKHOLM - Finland's President Sauli Niinisto visits Sweden and will meet Sweden's King Carl Gustaf and members of government during the 2-day visit (to May 18). GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 18BRUSSELS - EU-Armenia Partnership Council.
WASHINGTON, D.C - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu revealed his plans to visit the United States to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
BONN, Germany - Germany hosts the finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 7 (G7) (to May 20)
GLOBAL - International Museum Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 19UNITED NATIONS - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to chair U.N. Security Council meeting on conflict and food security. The United States is president of the 15-member council for May. - 1500 GMT
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 20SEOUL/TOKYO - U.S. President Joe Biden will visit South Korea and Japan and hold talks with his Korean and Japanese counterparts. (To May 24)
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 21Australia - Australian House of Representatives Election. Australia - Australian Senate Election.
BANGKOK – APEC holds Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) Meeting. (To May 22)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 22GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 23BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 24JERUSALEM - Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Israel.
BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 26BERLIN - Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck and Environment Minister Steffi Lemke to host their G7 colleagues in Berlin (To May 27)
BISHKEK - President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Kyrgyzstan. BISHKEK - President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will make official visit to Kyrgyzstan.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 29BOGOTA, Colombia - Presidential election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 30BRUSSELS - EU special meeting of the European Council (to May 31)
GENEVA, Switzerland - Human Rights Council - Organizational meeting on the 50th session.
BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 31GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1KATHMANDU - 21st anniversary of the massacre of Nepal's royal family, in which King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family were assassinated
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 3BRUSSELS - EU trade ministers meet in Brussels.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 4CHILE – 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 5GLOBAL - World Environment Day.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 6SEOUL - South Korea marks the 67th anniversary of Memorial Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8MADRID - Spain´s economy minister Nadia Calviño participates in a two-day forum organized by Expansion paper.
SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2020 (to June 19)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 9LUXEMBOURG – EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. (To June 10)
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 10SHANGHAI - Shanghai International Film Festival 2020 (to June 19)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 12GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour (ILO)
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 13GENEVA, Switzerland - 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council (to July 8)
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 14GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.
GAZA - 15th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.
GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 16LUXEMBOURG - Euro zone finance ministers meet on ERM2, digital euro, fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT
LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 17LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 20YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia to have G20 health ministers meeting (to June 21). GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.
LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 21PHNOM PENH - 16th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting. (To June 22)
LUXEMBOURG - EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22BERLIN - International Air Show (to June 25).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 23BRUSSELS - European Council (to June 24).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 24BERLIN - 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.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 25VIENNA – 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.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 26GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
BERLIN - G7 summit, Schloss Elmau (to June 28)
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29MADRID - NATO Summit is be held in Madrid (to June 30)
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 30FRANCE - Election for National Assembly of France.
SUNDAY, JULY 3
KINSHASA - Pope Francis visits Congo (To July 4)
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