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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, JUNE 17 ** MINSK - Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on an official visit to Belarus (to June 18).

** LONDON/PARIS/BERN - Colombia's President Ivan Duque and his finance, trade and energy ministers visit UK, France and Switzerland (to June 19). ** TOKYO, Japan - Japan's industry minister Hiroshige Seko meets Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih and two other ministers to discuss Saudi Vision 2030. - 0730 GMT ** PARIS, France - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysee Palace. Both leaders hold a press conference after meeting. - 1330 GMT ULAANBAATAR - Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Taro Kono will pay an official visit to Mongolia (Final Day).

LONDON - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad be making a three-day working visit to the United Kingdom (Final Day). SHANGHAI – 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival 2019 (to June 24). BEIJING - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid Mualem will visit China (to June 21).

PARIS - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will pay an official visit to France. BEIJING - UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces will visit China (to June 20). MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha in Moscow- 0900 GMT 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 ** MINSK, Belarus - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visits Belarus, meets Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. - 0800 GMT ** BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speak to reporters in Berlin. - 1030 GMT

BERLIN, Germany - German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier will visit China (to June 21). BERLIN - Poland Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz holds a speech about the European Union and his country's vision for its future at a policy and constitutional rights research institute in Berlin. - 1400 GMT BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will receive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Berlin's Bellevue Palace. PARIS - Aerospace Meetings PARIS 2019 (to June 20). LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 ** BEIJING - Netherlands Foreign Minister Stef Blok will pay a visit to China (to June 22) MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis.

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** PYONGYANG - Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (to June 21). ** SINGAPORE - Jordan's King Abdullah meets Singapore's President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and sign a Memorandum of Understanding. ** BRUSSELS, Belgium - Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attends a two-day EU summit amid growing tensions with Brussels over Rome's soaring public debt

** SINGAPORE - Jordan's King Abdullah delivers a keynote address at the International Conference on Cohesive Societies before visiting Singapore leaders. - 0200 GMT WASHINGTON DC - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.

DORTMUND, Germany - Germany President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers a speech at the 37th German Evangelical Church Day. - 0900 GMT BANGKOK - ASEAN senior officials' meeting (to June 23). 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 (to June 23) - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 NAPLES, Italy - Pope Francis will visit Naples and deliver speech at university - 0900 GMT GENEVA, Switzerland - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses ILO's conference as annual meeting closes.

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. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 23 ** LISBON, Portugal - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gives closing remarks during a two-day conference in Lisbon dedicated to youth-related issues. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 24 NEW DELHI/COLOMBO/TOKYO/SEOUL - US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will embark on a four-nation visit to India, Sri Lanka, Japan and South Korea (to June 30). 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 BRUSSELS - Defence ministers from the 29 allied governments of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meet in Brussels to discuss policy (to June 27) TOKYO - French President Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte visit Japan ahead of the G20 summit (to June 27) 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. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 1 ** DALIAN, China (Mainland) - The World Economic Forum will be held in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian (to July 3). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 2 ** TORONTO, Canada - Foreign Ministers from several states to include, EU, G7, and NATO will meet in Toronto for the third Ukraine Reform Conference (to July 4).

GLOBAL - World UFO day on anniversary of the Roswell incident. SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena". - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 4 VATICAN CITY - Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican.

UNITED STATES - Independence Day. 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 LIMA - Lima hosts 14th Pacific Alliance Summit. 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. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 8 KYIV- EU-Ukraine summit. BRUSSELS - Eurogroup meeting.

- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 9 ** HIGH TATRAS, Slovakia - Foreign ministers of OSCE members hold informal meeting.

BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, confer at the White House. 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. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 15

BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

CHANTILLY, France - The G7 countries' finance ministers and central bank governors will meet in Chantilly, France (to July 18). GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 18

BUENOS AIRES - Buenos Aires hosts the hemispheric anti-terrorism summit with the attendance of US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in Argentina (to July 19). 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

HANGZHOU, China - 3rd APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) meeting (to July 25). OSLO – 8th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 23 BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 25 SANTIAGO - Finance ministers from APEC countries meet ahead of presidential summit (to July 26). BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2019 (to Aug 28). - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JULY 26 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Foreign ministers of China, Russia, India, Brazil and South African meet in Rio to prepare for the November presidential summit in Brasilia. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 27 BANGKOK - ASEAN senior officials' meeting (to Aug 3).

BANGKOK - 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (to Aug 3). BANGKOK - 20th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers Meeting (to Aug 3).

BANGKOK - 9th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting (to Aug 3). - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 28

GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day. GLOBAL – 105th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

PERU - 198th anniversary of Independence. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 SANTIAGO – APEC Third Senior Officials' meeting and related meetings (to Aug 30). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 BIARRITZ - G7 summit, Biarritz, France meeting (to Aug 26).

- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 YOKOHAMA, Japan - Leaders of African nations and representatives of international organisations meet for the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan.

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