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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, JULY 18 ** LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May meets Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas at Downing Street. ** NEW DELHI - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will visit India and meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defence and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (to July 19). ** PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron meets Swiss President Doris Leuthard at the Elysee Palace in Paris. TBILISI - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will visit Georgia (to July 19). BEIJING - Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui will visit China (to July 21). BEIJING - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will pay a state visit to China (to July 20). WARSAW/BERLIN - Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visit Poland and Germany (to July 21). 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 ** PARIS - Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to visit French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. TBILISI - United States Vice President Mike Pence will visit Georgia (to August 1). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 ** GLOBAL - World Breastfeeding Week (to Aug. 7). ** WARSAW - Poland marks 73rd anniversary of its war-time Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation. ** CHINA - 90th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army. 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 ** EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 (to Aug. 28). RWANDA – Presidential election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 ** HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Commemorations 72nd Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 ** NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 72nd Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 ** GLOBAL - International Youth Day. ** EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug 28). - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 14 ** PAKISTAN - 70th anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule. ** LEBANON - Hezbollah marks 11th anniversary of its "divine victory" - - the end of its war with Israel. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 ** JAPAN – 72nd anniversary of country's surrender in World War Two. ** INDIA – 70th anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule. ** LIECHTENSTEIN - 211th Anniversary of Independence. - - - - - - - - - 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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