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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, JULY 2 NAIROBI - South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit visits Kenya (Final Day).

TOKYO - Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Japan (Final Day). OTTAWA - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Canada (to July 3). DALIAN, China (Mainland) - The World Economic Forum will be held in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian (to July 3).

TOKYO - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Japan's Emperor Naruhito in Tokyo - 0700 GMT MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney meet in Moscow, hold a new conference after the talks. - 0800 GMT BEIJING - Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi and Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard hold a news conference following their meeting at Diaoyutai in Beijing - 0345 GMT. BEIJING - Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit China. VIENNA - 6th OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting

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". - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Ireland´s President Michael Higgins at the Chancellery in Berlin. - 1300 GMT BEIJING - Bulgarian President Radev attends a welcoming ceremony followed by his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing - 0900 GMT.

- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 4 ** LISBON - Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi speaks at EurAfrican Forum in Portugal's capital Lisbon. - 1100 GMT ** HANOI - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visits Vietnam (to July 7). BEIJING - Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina attends a welcoming and signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

WARSAW - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic meets Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw ahead of Western Balkans summit in Poland. 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 ** BRUSSELS - NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg gives news conferenec after NATO-Russia council meeting - 1100 GMT

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. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 LONDON - British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland host a two-day conference in London about media freedom around the world (to July 11). - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 11

BANGKOK - Defense ministers from Southeast and East Asian nations gather in Bangkok for the 13th ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (to Jul. 12). 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 MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet Honduran President Juan Orlando to discuss migration, development. BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 16 PARIS - World Bank chief Malpass speaks at conference "Bretton Woods: 75 years later" - 1200 GMT. PARIS - IMF chief Lagarde speaks at conference "Bretton Woods: 75 years later" - 1400 GMT

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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 ** Brussels - EU General Affairs Council meeting. ** HELSINKI – EU Informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers (to July 19).

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 WASHINGTON D.C. - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan visits U.S and meet U.S president Donald Trump (to July 24).

CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 21 ** Japan - Japanese House of Councillors election. 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 SANTIAGO - Financial minister from APEC countries meet ahead of presidential summit.

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.

- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 29 BANGKOK - Foreign ministers from Southeast and East Asian nations gather in Bangkok for the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, 20th ASEAN Plus Three, and the 9th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting (to Aug. 3). - - - - - - - - - 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 ** HELSINKI - EU Informal meeting of defence ministers (to August 29). YOKOHAMA, Japan - Leaders of African nations and representatives of international organisations meet for the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 ** HELSINKI - EU informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers (to Aug. 30). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTE: The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will file a story based on the event. For Technical Issues Please contact Thomson Reuters Customer Support (TRCS) at https://customers.reuters.com/kccontactus/telephone.aspx