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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, JULY 17

** BRUSSELS - EU-Uzbekistan Cooperation Council meeting. ** ABU DHABI - Sudan President Omar al-Bashir will visit the UAE. ** RIGA - President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visits Latvia and meets the Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis – 0825 GMT. LONDON - UAE Foreign Affairs Minister Anwar Gargash to speak at Chatham House - 0730 GMT. MEXICO CITY - Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Souza will meet Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto. TBILISI - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will visit Georgia (to July 19). India - Presidential Election. BEIJING - Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui will visit China (to July 21). NEW YORK, United States - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit United States and he scheduled to deliver a speech on current developments in the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York - 2200 GMT. BEIJING - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will pay a state visit to China (to July 20). GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice. WARSAW/BERLIN - Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visit Poland and Germany (to July 21). BRUSSELS - Meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Council - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 18

** BRUSSELS - EU-Lebanon Association Council meeting. ** BRUSSELS - EU-the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Stabilisation and Association Council meeting. ** RIYADH - Sudan President Omar al-Bashir will visit Saudi Arabia. BEIJING - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to meet Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing - 0800 GMT. ** BUDAPEST - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Hungary and meet Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban follwing press conference (to July 19). GENEVA - Indian Minister of State for Commerce & Industry Nirmala Sitharaman will speak at Geneva Graduate Institute in Geneva – 1500 GMT. GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day. BRUSSELS - Meeting of General Affairs Council. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 BRUSSELS - Slovenian Finance Minister Mateja Vranicar Erman will meet European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 20 CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. MELBOURNE, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Treasurer Scott Morrison, Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg to speak at Melbourne Institute 2017 Economic and Social Outlook Conference - 0300 GMT. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JULY 21 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 6th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 22 OSLO – 6th Anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people killed. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JULY 24 BRUSSELS - Meeting of Economic and Financial Affairs Council on budget. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 25 BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2017 (to August 28). - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 27 SYDNEY, Australia - British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson will speak at Lowy Institute in Sydney. HELSINKI - Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit to Finland. SYDNEY, Australia - British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson speaks in Sydney. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JULY 28 GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day. GLOBAL – 103rd anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. PERU - 196th Anniversary of Independence. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 29 GABONESE REPUBLIC - Gabonese National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 31 TBILISI - United States Vice President Mike Pence will visit Georgia (to August 1). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 SHANGHAI, China - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries Trade Ministers meet in Shanghai (to August 2). - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

** MANILA - 50th ASEAN ministerial meeting (AMM) and post-ministerial conferences, 18th ASEAN Plus Three foreign ministers meeting (18th APT FMM), 7th East Asia Summit foreign ministers meeting (7th EAS FMM), 24th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) (to August 8). MANILA - Foreign ministers of Asean join counterparts from Japan, China, South Korea, New Zealand, India and Australia in Manila for region meet.(to August 08).

PODGORICA - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will meet Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic and Prime Minister Dusko Markovic in Podgorica. - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 RWANDA – Presidential election. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 TALLINN - European Union Foreign Ministers meet in Estonia. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 NORWAY - Parliament election - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 MACAU - Legislative election. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 NEW ZEALAND - House of Representatives election

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 ** GERMANY - Election For Bundestag (German Federal Diet).

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