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——————————————————————– This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ——————————————————————– FRIDAY, MAY 13 ** ISTANBUL – Turkey’s Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati will attend meetings of state lender Ziraatbank and Financial Institutions Association meeting – 0700 GMT ** ISTANBUL – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets his counterpart from Democratic Republic of Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala, and they hold a joint news conference – 0800 GMT ** DUSHANBE – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov takes part in a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CIS in Dushanbe – 0530 GMT ** LONDON – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson meets Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre. ** LISBON – Portugal’s Finance Minister Fernando Medina opens Invest EU event in Lisbon – 0830 GMT ** MADRID – Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares and Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney meet and hold a joint news conference in Madrid – 1300 GMT ** JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Minister of Finance of South Africa Enoch Godongwana and Minister in the Presidency of South Africa Mondli Gungubele will brief on reform efforts to support a recovery from the COVID pandemic – 1200 GMT ** WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi at the State Department on the sidelines of the US-ASEAN Summit – 1300 GMT ** QUITO – Ecuador finance minister Simon Cueva talks on IMF funding, fiscal plans – 1400 GMT ** WARSAW – Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Gillian Triggs visits Poland. ** MANILA – The Asian Development Bank and the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office hold a joint webinar on Economic Recovery in ASEAN+3 – 0600 GMT ** HELSINKI – Portugal’s Minister for Foreign Affairs João Gomes Cravinho will visit Finland and have a meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto. TALLINN/ RIGA – Ng Eng Hen, minister for defense of Singapore, will make an official visit to Estonia and Latvia (To May 17) DUSHANBE – Ararat Mirzoyan Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia will visit Dushanbe, Tajikistan (final day) WASHINGTON D.C – Ismail Sabri Yaakob Prime Minister of Malaysia arrives in Washington D.C for a four-day working visit including meeting President Biden, ASEAN leaders (final day) NEW DELHI – A high-level delegation from the UAE led by their Minister of Economy Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri on a four-day visit to India (to May 14) WASHINGTON DC – Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong will make a five-day working visit to Washington DC to attend the ASEAN-US Special Summit hosted by President Joe Biden (to May 14) VALLETTA – Irish President Michael D. Higgins will start a three-day state visit to Malta (final day) WASHINGTON D.C – Vietnam Prime minister Pham Minh Chinh will attend the ASEAN-US summit and have a working visit to the United States and the United Nations (to May 17) DAKAR – 54th Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (to May 17) TURIN, Italy, – 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (To May 14). OTTAWA – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and her husband, Pieter van Vollenhoven visits Canada (to May 16). WASHINGTON DC – U.S. President Joe Biden will host leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Washington (final day) WEISSENHAUS, Germany – G7 Foreign Minister meeting in Weissenhaus,Schleswig-Holstein (To May 14) SEOUL – South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol hosts a policy meeting on economy and markets. VILNIUS – Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak meets his Lithuanian counterpart Arvydas Anusauskas in Vilnius – 0835 GMT. COPENHAGEN – Press conference at ministerial meeting in Copenhagen to discuss commitments of the Glasgow Climate Pact. COP26 President Alok Sharma, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, who will chair COP27, and UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa will attend press conference in Copenhagen – 1130 GMT. BUENOS AIRES – Argentinian President Alberto Fernández will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris as part of his official European tour. HIROSHIMA – European Congress President Charles Michel visits Hiroshima. HELSINKI – Finland’s Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen will meet European Commissioner Thierry Breton. WASHINGTON D.C – U.S. President Joe Biden is to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah and Crown Prince Hussein. STUTTGART, Germany – Ukraine Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi attends G7 Agriculture Minister meeting in Stuttgart – 0800 GMT DUSHANBE – Foreign Ministers of Armenian Ararat Mirzoyan, Azerbaijani Jeyhun Bayramov, Russian Sergey Lavrov will meet in Dushanbe. WASHINGTON DC – U.S. President Joe Biden hosts leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Washington D.C. – – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, MAY 14 ** HAVANA – Cuba economy minister Alejandro Gil Fernández to address National Assembly with an update on the communist-run island´s fragile economic recovery, hampered by U.S. sanctions, inflation and structural issues. BERLIN – Germany hosts an informal meeting for NATO foreign ministers in Berlin to discuss strengthening the alliance in the light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (To May 15). – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 15 ** HELSINKI – Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin hold a joint news conference on Finland’s security policy decisions. BALI – ASEAN Health ministers to meet in Indonesia’s Bali to discuss APHDA and Cluster Work Programs 2021-2025, health certificates and more – 0000 GMT. HANOI – Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will pay an official visit to Vietnam (to May 19) KINGSTON/ KINGSTOWN – President of the Republic of India Ram Nath Kovind to pay visit to Jamaica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (to May 21) BERN, Switzerland – Referendum Election. PARIS – EU Commission Vice-Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager meet their U.S. counterparts in the Paris suburb of Saclay to discuss transatlantic issues and how to counter China’s dominance in key technologies (To May 16). GLOBAL – U.N. International Day of Families. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 16 ** HELSINKI – Finland’s parliament to debate NATO membership after the country’s President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Finland must apply to join the NATO military alliance “without delay.” ** MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko meet on the sidelines of the summit of the leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) countries in Moscow. ** BRUSSELS – The NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, will engage with the Minister of Defence of the Netherlands, Ms. Kajsa Ollongren, who will visit the NATO Headquarters. MADRID – Qatar’s leader visits Spain, meets with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and attends events. KATHMANDU – Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India will pay an official visit to Lumbini, Nepal. BERLIN – Rumen Radev President of Bulgaria to Visit Germany for Bilateral Economic Forum (To May 17) BRUSSELS – EU-Canada Joint Ministerial Committee meeting. WASHINGTON DC – U.S. President Joe Biden meets with the Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis at White House. LISBON – 10th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 17 ** VIENNA – Austrian Finance Minister Magnus Brunner and the co-heads of Austria’s treasury present the framework in which the country’s first green bond will be issued – 0700 GMT ** BERLIN – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz receives Liechtenstein Prime Minister Daniel Risch in Berlin – 1030 GMT ** BERLIN – German President Frank Walter Steinmeier meets with President of Montenegro Milo Dukanovic – 0800 GMT ** PRAGUE – Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer visits the Czech Republic, meets with his counterpart Petr Fiala to debate the Ukraine war impact, EU agenda ahead of the Czech presidency – 1130 GMT BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Denmark’s counterpart Jeppe Kofod hold news conference in Berlin – 1025 GMT. WASHINGTON DC – Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece address a joint session of the U.S. Congress – 1500 GMT. OTTAWA – Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall visits Canada (to May 19) STOCKHOLM – Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto visits Sweden and will meet Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf and members of government during the 2-day visit (to May 18). GLOBAL – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 ** BERLIN – EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Finance Minister Christian Lindner to attend German Economic Council annual press conference – 0900 GMT ESBJERG – EU’s von der Leyen holds joint press conference with heads of states of Germany, Belgium, Netherland and Denmark at offshore wind summit in Esbjerg, Denmark. NEW YORK – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to host a ‘global food security call to action’ ministerial meeting at the United Nations. BRUSSELS – EU-Armenia Partnership Council. WASHINGTON, D.C – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu revealed his plans to visit the United States to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. BONN, Germany – Germany hosts the finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 7 (G7) (to May 20) GLOBAL – International Museum Day. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 19 ** BANGKOK – Thai Finance minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith along with, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Supattapong Punmeechaow Thai central bank governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput and Danucha Pichayanan, chief of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) participate in a business seminar. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha speaks on economic outlook at a business seminar – 0200 GMT UNITED NATIONS – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to chair U.N. Security Council meeting on conflict and food security. The United States is president of the 15-member council for May. – 1500 GMT – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, MAY 20 ** BERLIN – Joint news conference of German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Joachim Nagel President of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Koenigswinter/Bonn at the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bank chiefs – 1145 GMT BERLIN – German President Frank Walter Steinmeier meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani – 0700 GMT. TURIN, Italy – Foreign Affairs Ministers from the 46 Council of Europe member States meet in Turin under the Italian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers. SEOUL/TOKYO – U.S. President Joe Biden will visit South Korea and Japan and hold talks with his Korean and Japanese counterparts. (To May 24) BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, MAY 21 Australia – Australian House of Representatives Election. Australia – Australian Senate Election. BANGKOK – APEC holds Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) Meeting. (To May 22) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 22 GLOBAL – International Day for Biological Diversity. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 23 TOKYO – U.S. President Joe Biden visiting Tokyo will hold a bilateral meeting with his counterpart Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting. BRUSSELS – Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 24 JERUSALEM – Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Israel. BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 26 BERLIN – Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck and Environment Minister Steffi Lemke to host their G7 colleagues in Berlin (To May 27) BISHKEK – President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Kyrgyzstan. BISHKEK – President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will make official visit to Kyrgyzstan. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 29 BOGOTA, Colombia – Presidential election. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 30 BRUSSELS – EU special meeting of the European Council (to May 31) GENEVA, Switzerland – Human Rights Council – Organizational meeting on the 50th session. BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 31 GLOBAL – World No Tobacco Day. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 KATHMANDU – 21st anniversary of the massacre of Nepal’s royal family, in which King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family were assassinated. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 2 VIENNA – 29th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting via videoconference. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 3 BRUSSELS – EU trade ministers meet in Brussels. – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, JUNE 4 CHILE – 11th anniversary of Chile’s Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia. HONG KONG – Tens of thousands attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JUNE 5 GLOBAL – World Environment Day. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JUNE 6 SEOUL – South Korea marks the 67th anniversary of Memorial Day. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, JUNE 7 KINSHASA – Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will take an official visit to Democratic Republic of Congo, leading a delegation that will also include Belgium’s prime minister and other officials (to June 13). – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 MADRID – Spain´s economy minister Nadia Calviño participates in a two-day forum organized by Expansion paper. SYDNEY – Sydney Film Festival 2020 (to June 19) – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 9 LUXEMBOURG – EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. (To June 10) – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 10 SHANGHAI – Shanghai International Film Festival 2020 (to June 19) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JUNE 12 GLOBAL – World Day against Child Labour (ILO) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JUNE 13 GENEVA, Switzerland – 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council (to July 8) – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, JUNE 14 GLOBAL – World Blood Donor Day. GAZA – 15th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah. GLOBAL – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 16 LUXEMBOURG – Euro zone finance ministers meet on ERM2, digital euro, fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 17 LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council. GLOBAL – United Nation’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JUNE 20 YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia to have G20 health ministers meeting (to June 21). GLOBAL – World Refugee Day. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, JUNE 21 ZURICH – Switzerland and Singapore host fintech confereence. The Forum will be opened by Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer and Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, Heng Swee Keat (to June 23). PHNOM PENH – 16th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting. (To June 22) LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 BERLIN – International Air Show (to June 25). – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 23 BRUSSELS – European Council (to June 24). – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 24 BERLIN – 74th 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. – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, JUNE 25 VIENNA – IAEA International Symposium on Uranium Raw Material for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Exploration, Mining, Production, Supply and Demand, Economics and Environmental Issues (to June 29). LOS ANGELES – 13th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JUNE 26 GLOBAL – International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. BERLIN – G7 summit, Schloss Elmau (to June 28) – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 MADRID – NATO Summit is be held in Madrid (to June 30) – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 30 FRANCE – Election for National Assembly of France. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JULY 1 CHINA – 101st founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China. SONKAJARVI – Wife-Carrying World Championship 2020 (to July 2) – – – – – – – – –

SATURDAY, JULY 2 GLOBAL – World UFO day on anniversary of the Roswell incident. SIENA – July annual horse race “Palio di Siena.” – – – – – – – – –

SUNDAY, JULY 3 KINSHASA – Pope Francis visits Congo (To July 4) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JULY 4 UNITED STATES – Independence Day. GLOBAL – International Day of Cooperatives. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, JULY 5 JUBA – Pope Francis visits South Sudan, where violence and hunger stalk world’s youngest nation (to Jul. 6). – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JULY 7 KATHMANDU – 75th birthday of Nepal’s deposed King Gyanendra. LONDON – 17th anniversary of the attacks on London’s transport network, killing more than 50 and injuring 700. – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, JULY 9 TEHRAN – 22nd anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999. JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH – Palestine marks 17th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel’s walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal. SOUTH SUDAN – 11th Anniversary of South Sudan becoming an Independent State. – – – – – – – – –

MONDAY, JULY 11 GLOBAL – United Nations World Population Day. MUMBAI – 15th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai’s commuter rail network. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JULY 14 PARIS – Bastille Day. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JULY 17 GLOBAL – World Day for International Justice, which commemorates the adoption of the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, the Rome Statute, on July 17. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JULY 18 HAMPSHIRE – Farnborough International Airshow 2022 (to Jul 22) GLOBAL – Nelson Mandela International Day. – – – – – – – – –

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 CYPRUS – Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. – – – – – – – – –

THURSDAY, JULY 21 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 22nd anniversary of conclusion of NASA’s space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135. GLOBAL – International Yoga Day. – – – – – – – – –

FRIDAY, JULY 22 OSLO – 11th Anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people killed. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JULY 24 ** OTTAWA – Pope Francis to visit Canada (to July 30) – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JULY 28 GLOBAL – World Hepatitis Day. GLOBAL – 108th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. PERU – 201st Anniversary of Independence. – – – – – – – – –

FRIDAY, JULY 29 BAYREUTH, Germany – Annual Bayreuth festival 2022 (to Aug. 9) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – NOTE: The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will file a story based on the event.

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