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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 ** TOKYO - Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. ** BERLIN - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina meets Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila - 1000 GMT. ** MOSCOW - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin sign cooperation agreements in Kremlin - 1330 GMT. ** PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Theresa May meets Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - 1500 GMT. ** WASHINGTON D.C - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence holds talks with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard at the White House - 1930 GMT. ** GLOBAL - World Environment Day

** SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2019 (to June 16) MOSCOW - Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo will be paying a working visit to Russia (to June 9).

ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet President Prokopis Pavlopoulos to discuss snap elections (to June 10). LONDON - U.S. President Donald Trump will make a state visit to UK (Final Day).

BRUSSELS - Ukraine President Volodymy Zelensky visits Brussels (Final Day) MOSCOW - Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini visits Russia (to June 6). HANOI - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte visits Vietnam (to June 6). BRUSSELS - Chairman of EU leaders Donald Tusk meets President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy - 1230 GMT 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 ** SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the sidelines of St Petersburg Economic Forum. ** MADRID - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and European Council President Donald Tusk meet in the PM's residence for a working meeting. -1730 GMT. ** SEOUL - South Korea marks the 64th anniversary of Memorial Day.

WASHINGTON D.C - Managing Director of IMF Christine Lagarde to hold a news conference on the preliminary findings of its annual review of the U.S. economy. - 1000 GMT BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes the Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj at the Chancellery in Berlin. - 0900 GMT COLLEVILLE, France - U.S President Donald Trump and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron attend French American commemoration ceremony for the 75th anniversary of D-Day in the American cemetery of Colleville in Normandy - 0900 GMT

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. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 7 SINGAPORE - Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a meeting and joint news conference with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during a visit to Singapore. MALE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Maldives (to June 8). SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - Chinese President Xi Jinping takes part in St Petersburg Economic Forum, holds meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 9 COLOMBO - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Sri Lanka. 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 ** GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour ILO.

WASHINGTON DC, United States - U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Polish President Andrzej Duda at the White House. OSLO - South Korean President Moon Jae-in on state visit to Norway (to June 13).

- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 13 LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 14 VALLETTA, Malta - Leaders from EU southern states - Malta, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain - hold a summit in Valletta.

LUXEMBOURG - Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. ** GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day. ** GAZA - 12th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.

- - - - - - - - - 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. ** SHANGHAI – 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival 2019 (to June 24). ** GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).

- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 16 GUATEMALA – President election. GUATEMALA - Guatemalan Congress of the Republic election.

- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 17 ** WARSAW - European Council President Donald Tusk is scheduled to be questioned by a parliamentary commission concerning accusations that his government did not take adequate measures to crack down on VAT fraud. ** GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 18 ** PARIS - Aerospace Meetings PARIS 2019 (to June 20). 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 ** GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.

PERTH - Bill Johnston, Western Australia's minister for mines, will meet Hon Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia's energy minister, in Perth. BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to June 21). BANGKOK - ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (to June 23). BANGKOK - 34th ASEAN Summit.

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BRUSSELS - EU leaders meet in Brussels for European Council Summit. 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 ** BERLIN – 71st 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 organize a massive airlift.

WELLINGTON - Launch of OECD Economic Surveys: New Zealand 2019. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 25 ** NEW DELHI - US secretary of state Mike Pompeo visits India and meets Indian Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar (to June 26). ** LOS ANGELES - 10th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. LUXEMBOURG - General Affairs Council (Cohesion) meeting. VIENNA - 176th Meeting of the OPEC Conference. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 ** GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. VIENNA - 6th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting.

- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 28 OSAKA, Japan - G20 summit (to June 29). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 ** PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 17th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.

** BEJING/TAIPEI - 9th anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan. OSAKA, Japan - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 2 ** GLOBAL - World UFO day on anniversary of the Roswell incident.

** SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena". - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 4

** UNITED STATES - Independence Day. ALGERIA – President election.

PARIS - G7 development and education ministers meet in France ahead of August summit. - - - - - - - - -

Friday, JULY 5 ** SONKAJARVI - Wife-Carrying World Championship 2019 (to July 6). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 6 ** GLOBAL – 2019 International Day of Cooperatives. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 7 ** KATHMANDU – 72nd birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.

** LONDON - 14th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, killing more than 50 and injuring 700. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 9

** TEHRAN - 20th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999. ** JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks the 14th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.

** SOUTH SUDAN – 8th anniversary of South Sudan becoming an independent state. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 11 ** GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.

** MUMBAI - 12th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network. VIENNA - Launch of OECD Economic Surveys: Austria 2019. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 14 ** PARIS - Bastille Day. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 ** GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 18 ** GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 20 ** CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 21 ** BAKU - 2019 Summer European Youth Olympics Festival (to July 27). - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JULY 22 ** OSLO – 8th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 25 ** BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2019 (to Aug 28). - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 28 ** GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.

** GLOBAL – 105th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. ** PERU - 198th anniversary of Independence.

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