DIARY-Political and General News Events from May 30

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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, MAY 30

** SINGAPORE - Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic (Greece) George Katrougalos will visit Singapore (final day). ** BELGRADE - Slovakia Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini visits Serbia, meets counterpart Ana Brnabic. ** MEXICO CITY - IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde participates at the Women's Forum Americas - 1400 GMT (to May 31). ** RIYADH - Turkey Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attends a three-way meeting with the Malaysian and Pakistani foreign ministers in Saudi Arabia. ** KIEV - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian gives a news conference in Kiev after they meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy - 1600 GMT.

TASHKENT - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will visit Uzbekistan (final day). BEIJING – Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla will pay an official visit to China (final day). BANGKOK - ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting (to May 31).

TOKYO - Malaysian PriPOlitical eme Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will visit Tokyo to attend the 25th International Conference on The Future of Asia (to May 31). DUSHANBE/ NUR-SULTAN/ TASHKENT - European Council President Donald Tusk will travel to Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (to June 2). WARSAW - Sweden foreign minister Margot Wallstrom will visit Poland.

JAKARTA - U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan scheduled to visit Indonesia to meet President Joko Widodo and his Indonesian counterpart Ryamizard Ryacudu followed by a joint statement after a bilateral meeting. BEIJING - Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn will pay an official visit to China (to June 1)

OTTAWA - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Ottawa to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about accelerating the ratification of the new trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico, known as USMCA. TOKYO - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad talks at an international conference on the Future of Asia in Japan - 0030 GMT. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, MAY 31 ** TOKYO - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.

** TOKYO - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hold their bilateral meeting. ** BUCHAREST - Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Viorica Dancila welcome Pope Francis at Bucharest's Cotroceni Palace - 0900 GMT.

BUCHAREST - Pope Francis visit Romania (to June 2). BEIJING - Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn meets Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at Zhongnanhai and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing - 0715 GMT.

BERLIN - Federal Presidnet Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan at Bellevue Palace in Berlin - 0900 GMT. BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan for closed door talks in Berlin - 1130 GMT. TOKYO - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte talks at an international conference on the Future of Asia in Japan - 0800 GMT.

BERLIN - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Berlin. GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 SINGAPORE - Defence ministers in Asia meet at the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 2 SINGAPORE - China's Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, to speak at an Asia defence forum.

- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 3 ** AMSTERDAM - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scheduled to speak at Dutch conference on entrepreneurship.

** ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet President Prokopis Pavlopoulos to discuss snap elections (to June 10). ** PARIS - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and EU Competition Commissioner Margarthe Vestager are to speak at a competition conference at the OECD in Paris - 1200 GMT.

SOPOT - Polish Finance Minister Teresa Czerwinska and Polan's Central Bank Governor Adam Glapinski take part in the first day of the European Financial Congress in Sopot - 1000 GMT. LONDON - U.S. President Donald Trump will make a state visit to UK (to June 5).

- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 4 BRUSSELS - Ukraine President Volodymy Zelensky visits Brussels (to June 5) WARSAW - European Council President Donald Tusk visits Gdansk in Poland.

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** BOGOTA - Colombian Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla and Central Bank Chief Juan Jose Echavarria will speak at a three-day banking event during which they will address the state of the economy and ongoing fiscal problems (to June 7). ** SHANNON, Ireland - U.S. President Donald Trump visits Ireland.

MOSCOW - Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin (to June 7). DENMARK - Danish Parliament election. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 6 ** TOKYO - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda to speak at Institute of International Finance seminar in Tokyo, to be held ahead of the Group of 20 finance leaders' meeting in Fukuoka, southern Japan.

BUENOS AIRES - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro meets Argentina President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires. LUXEMBOURG – EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting (to June 7).

PARIS - U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife travel to France, where Trump will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 9 TSUKUBA, Japan - Trade ministers of the G20 nations gather in the Japanese city of Tsukuba for a meeting.

ASTANA - Kazakhstan to hold early presidential election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 10

VIENNA - United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (to June 14). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 12

** OSLO - South Korean President Moon Jae-in on state visit to Norway (to June 13). - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 13 LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 14 LUXEMBOURG - Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 15 KARUIZAWA, JAPAN - Energy ministers of the G20 nations gather in the Japanese city of Karuizawa. TALLINN - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on a state visit to Estonia.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Referendum election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 16 GUATEMALA – President election. GUATEMALA - Guatemalan Congress of the Republic election.

- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 17 LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 18 LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis.

- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 20 BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to June 21). BANGKOK - ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (to June 23). BANGKOK - 34th ASEAN Summit.

- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 21

MINSK - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit Belarus for the opening ceremony of the 2nd European Games in Minsk. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 22 MAURITANIA - President election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 24 WELLINGTON - Launch of OECD Economic Surveys: New Zealand 2019.

- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 25 LUXEMBOURG - General Affairs Council (Cohesion) meeting.

VIENNA - 176th Meeting of the OPEC Conference. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 VIENNA - 6th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting.

- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 28 OSAKA, Japan - G20 summit (to June 29). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTE: The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will file a story based on the event.

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