DIARY-Political and General News Events from March 20

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 ** WARSAW - Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis visits Warsaw and holds a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski - 0900 GMT.

** BRUSSELS - Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmyhal meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels - 1100 GMT. ** BRUSSELS - Portugal's Prime Minister Costa meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen - 1300 GMT.

** BERLIN - German finance minister Christian Lindner and ZEW President Wambach discuss the state of the German economy - 1730 GMT. ** TOKYO/ULAANBAATAR - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell will travel to Japan and Mongolia. (To Mar. 23)

** ANKARA - Jose Manuel Albares Bueno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, will pay an official visit to Türkiye. (To Mar. 21) AMMAN/RAMALLAH/ BEIRUT/ RIYADH - Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, to visit Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. (Final day)

SINGAPORE - President of French Polynesia Moetai Brotherson will visit Singapore (To Mar. 27) DHAKA - Swedish Crown Princess Victoria will stay in Bangladesh (To Mar. 21) JERUSALEM/ABU DHABI/CAIRO/RIYADH - Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will visit the Palestinian territories, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (To Mar. 24) CANBERRA/WELLINGTON - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Australia and New Zealand. (To Mar. 21) DHAKA - Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria will visit Bangladesh. (To Mar. 21) BANGKOK - British foreign minister David Cameron meets Thai prime minister Srettha Thavisin in a courtesy call during his official visit to Thailand. CANBERRA - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits Canberra and meets with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong. BRUSSELS - Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal visits Brussels and meets with the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at the EU-Ukraine Association Council - 0945 GMT. BILBAO, Spain - WindEurope holds its annual event in Bilbao, Spain. European Commission Executive Vice President Maros Sefcovic and Spain's Energy Minister Teresa Ribera are among the speakers (To Mar. 22) BRUSSELS - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels - 1130 GMT.

ISTANBUL - Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares visits Turkey and holds talks with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan. LEIPZIG, Germany - Germany's Scholz to meet Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ahead of the opening of Leipzig book fair for a joint discussion. PRAGUE - Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky meets Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski in Prague, followed by news conference - 1600 GMT.

BRUSSELS - EU-Ukraine Association Council. BERLIN - German Economy Minister Robert Habeck discusses European competitiveness at a German media summit called EUROPE 2024. – 1630 GMT BRUSSELS – EU Tripartite Social Summit. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, MARCH 21 ** THIMPHU - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a State visit to Bhutan. (To Mar. 22)

BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, meets Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob, at NATO Headquarters, they give a press conference - 0830 GMT. MANILA - Philippine Finance Secretary Ralph Recto administers the oath of officers of the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines. COPENHAGEN - Around 40 climate leaders and ministers meet in Copenhagen to discuss the path towards the COP29 in Azerbaijan in November (To Mar. 22) BRUSSELS - European Council (To Mar. 22)

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** BERLIN - French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu hold talks with Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius in Berlin - 0920 GMT. STARY SACZ, POLAND - New Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok visits Poland on his first foreign trip, meets Polish President Andrzej Duda to celebrate Polish-Hungarian Friendship Day.

BRUSSELS - Euro Summit. GLOBAL - World Water Day. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 ** BEIJING - The Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, will visit China. (To Mar. 29)

SINGAPORE/MANILA/KAULA LUMPUR - Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, at the invitation of his counterparts, will be on an official visit to Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia (To Mar. 27) SLOVAKIA - Slovakian Presidency election.

GLOBAL - World Meteorological Day. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MARCH 24

SENEGAL - Senegal holds presidential election. GLOBAL - World Tuberculosis Day.

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** BRASILIA - Brazil’s President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is scheduled to receive his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in the presidential palace in Brasilia. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, MARCH 29 DUBAI - HORSE RACING - 2024 Dubai World Cup. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, APRIL 2 GLOBAL - World Autism Awareness Day BUENOS AIRES - Argentina marks 42nd anniversary of start of Falklands war.

LUANG PRABANG, Laos - 11th ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting (11th AFMGM) (To April 5) - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3

VILNIUS - Norway's Crown Prince Haakon will visit Lithuania from April 3-4 and meet with the country's president and Norwegian troops serving in NATO's multinational battlegroup stationed in Rukla. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, APRIL 4 GLOBAL - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

KUWAIT - Kuwaiti National Assembly Election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 7 GLOBAL - World Health Organisation observes World Health Day. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, APRIL 8 WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – 13th anniversary of signing a bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, START-2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). GLOBAL - International Roma Nation Day. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 SOUTH KOREA - South Korean National Assembly Election.

SMOLENSK, Russia/CRACOW, Poland - 14th Anniversary of the Smolensk Tragedy to be held in Smolensk, Russia, as well as in Poland. WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit.

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FRANCE – 13th Anniversary of the French law banning the burqa and niqab. ABIDJAN – 13th anniversary of the arrest of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by supporters of president-elect Alassane Ouattara with the help of French forces, thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war. AUGUSTA, United States - U.S. Masters Golf 2024 (to April 14). LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup Meeting. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, APRIL 12 GLOBAL - International Day of Human Space Flight.

SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to Apr 22). LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, APRIL 15 BOSTON - 2024 Boston Marathon.

BELFAST/NEW YORK – 111th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of energy ministers. (To April 16)

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OTTAWA - Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will present the 2024-25 budget to parliament - 2000 GMT. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17

** CROATIA - Croatian Assembly Election. SOLOMON ISLANDS - Solomon Islander National Parliament Election.

AMSTERDAM - Queen Letizia and King Felipe VI of Spain will make a state visit to the Netherlands, at the invitation of the King of the Netherlands. (To April 18) ROME - G7 foreign ministers meet on Italian island of Capri. (To April 19) BRUSSELS - Special European Council. (to April 18) - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 18

WASHINGTON DC - G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 ** INDIA - Indian People's Assembly Election.

WASHINGTON DC - Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and IMF, Spring meetings. (To April 21) - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 20

UNITED STATES - 14th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. TOGO - Togolese National Assembly Election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 21

MALDIVES - Maldivian People's Council Election. LONDON - 2024 London Marathon. PARIS – 63rd anniversary of the first manned mission to space.

ECUADOR – Ecuador Referendum Election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 22

GLOBAL - Earth Day. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council.

NEW YORK, United states - Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up, including the special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. (To April 25) - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of health ministers. (To April 24)

STOCKHOLM - Finnish President Alexander Stubb visits Sweden on his first state trip since taking office on March 1. GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 NORTH MACEDONIA - North Macedonian Presidency Election. GLOBAL - World Immunization Week 2024 (to April 30). - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, APRIL 25 GLOBAL - World Malaria Day. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 28

PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania – 26th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. VENICE, Italy - Pope Francis visits Venice.

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BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council. (To April 30) LONDON – 13th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 VATICAN CITY – 13th anniversary of beatification ceremony of late Pope John Paul II.

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ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – The day marks the 13th year since Al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. special forces raid, ending a near decade-long worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, MAY 3 GLOBAL - World Press Freedom Day.

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PANAMA - Panamanian Presidency Election. PANAMA - Panamanian National Assembly Election.

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BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) Meeting. GLOBAL - World Asthma Day.

MALMÖ ARENA, SWEDEN - 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. (To May 11) - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 NORTH MACEDONIA - North Macedonian Assembly Election.

GLOBAL - World Red Cross Red and Crescent Day. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, MAY 12 LITHUANIA - Lithuanian Presidency Election.

LITHUANIA – Referendum Election. GLOBAL - International Nurse's Day

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Brussels - Eurogroup Meeting. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, MAY 14 BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 GLOBAL - U.N. International Day of Families.

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LISBON – 12th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, MAY 17 GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

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GLOBAL - International Museum Day - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, MAY 19 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican Senate Election.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican Chamber of Deputies Election. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dominican Presidency Election. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, MAY 21 BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity.

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STRESA, ITALY - G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meet in Stresa, Italy, to debate global economic developments. (To May 25) WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Kenyan President William Ruto for state visit to mark 60th anniversary of U.S.-Kenya diplomatic relations. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 ** VANUATU - Referendum Election.

** MADAGASCAR - Malagasy National Assembly Election. SOUTH AFRICA - South African National Assembly Election. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, MAY 30 PRAGUE - NATO Foreign Affairs ministers hold an informal meeting in Prague (To May 31)

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