DIARY - Political and General News Events from May 16

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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, MAY 16 ** BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel meets Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed ben Dagher - 0930 GMT. ** BERLIN - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble takes part in event series called "This is what Europe sounds like - Part VIII Malta". ** BRUSSELS - European Affairs Ministers from the EU's 28 member countries meet in Brussels. ** BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel speaks about the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe after World War Two. THIMPHU – Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan visits Bhutan (to May 17). NEW DELHI - Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas visits India (to May 17). DOHA – Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman visits Qatar (to May 17). BEIJING – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to visit China (Final Day). JERUSALEM - Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to meet Israeli, Palestinian leaders (Final Day). MIAMI, Florida - Miami Beach International Fashion Week (to May 18). PRAGUE - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias visits Prague to meet with his Czech counterpart Lubomir Zaoralek - 1000 GMT. BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang meet various leaders in Beijing after the Belt and Road Forum. HONG KONG - Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif pays a three-day official visit to Hong Kong. Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying will meet with Sharif during his visit. (to May 18). VALLETTA – Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko visits Malta (to May 17). TOKYO – New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English to visit Japan (to May 18). LISBON – 6th anniversary of 78 billion-euro bail out of Portugal by Eurozone leaders. JERUSALEM – Costa Ricca Foreign Minister Manuel Gonzalex Sanz meets Israeli and Palestinian leaders (to May 19). JERUSALEM - Denmark Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen meets Israeli and Palestinian leaders (to May 18). WASHINGTON – U.S President Donald Trump meets Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House (to May 17). - - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 STRASBOURG, France – Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko visits France. RIGA - Montenegro Foreign Minister Srdjan Darmanovic will visit Latvia and meets with his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics - 1050 GMT. LJUBLJANA - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry starts a two-day visit to Slovenia, meets his counterpart Karl Erjavec. BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at the annual reception of Federal Government Commissioner for Matters relating to Persons with Disabilities - 1430 GMT. BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang meet leaders from Cambodia and Argentina in Beijing following the Belt and Road Forum - 0300 GMT. JAKARTA - President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite will pay a state visit to Indonesia. GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. SOCHI, Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. - - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, May 18 ** WASHINGTON - Mexican Finance Minsiter Jose Antonio Meade and Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso will meet United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of Homeland Security John F.Kelly and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson. ** JERUSALEM - Hungary Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto to meet Israeli, Palestinnian leaders during a day-long visit to the region. HONG KONG - New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English will visit Hong Kong (to May 20). BUCHAREST - Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, Finance Minister Viorel Stefan and Central Bank Governor Mugur Isarescu give keynote addresses at an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference – 0600 GMT. NICOSIA – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit Cyprus and attend meeting of Council of Europe Committee of Ministers (to May 20). GLOBAL - International Museum Day. WASHINGTON – U.S President Donald Trump will meet Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the White House. FRANKFURT - Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Central Bank Governor Yannis Stournaras speak about Greece's prospects for returning to financial markets. TOKYO - Argentine President Mauricio Macri will pay a three-day official visit to Japan (to May 20). - - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 19 WARSAW – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Poland. IRAN – Presidential election.

- - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 20 TAIPEI CITY - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen gives a speech on the first anniversary of taking office. WITTENBERG, Germany - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Interior Minister de Maiziere attend opening of Reformation exhibition in Wittenberg. HANOI - APEC Trade Ministers Meeting (MRT) in Hanoi(to May 21). - - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 21 SARAJEVO - Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla will visit Bosnia-Herzegovina (to May 22). - - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, MAY 22 ** JERUSALEM - Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Antanas Linkevicius will meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders (to May 23). ** JERUSALEM - Croatian Foreign Minister Davor Ivo Stiev will meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders (to May 23). GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity. BRUSSELS - Eurogroup Finance Ministers meeting (to May 23). JAKARTA - King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden visit Indonesia (to May 24).

- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 23 MOSCOW - Philippine President Rodirgo Duterte will visit Russia (to May 27). BRUSSELS - European Union Finance Ministers will meet in Brussels. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 SOFIA - Bulgarian Central Bank Governor Dimitar Radev and Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov attends the 25-year anniversary of the Association of Bulgarian Banks – 0830 GMT. BRUSSELS - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the NATO summit (to May 25). VATICAN CITY – U.S President Donald Trump will meet Pope Francis. GUATEMALA CITY - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to visit Guatemala (to May 25). CAYMAN ISLANDS - Cayman legislative assembly election. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 25 BRUSSELS - U.S. President Donald Trump and French President-elect Emmanuel Macron will meet on the sidelines of the NATO leaders meet in Brussels. BRUSSELS – European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker and European Council President Donald Tusk will meet United States President Donald Trump prior to the NATO summit. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 26 SICILY, Italy – U.S President Donald Trump will attend the Group of Seven summit in Sicily (to May 27). - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 27 VIENNA – IAEA International Symposium on Understanding Moderate Malnutrition in Children for Effective Interventions (to May 29). GENOA, Italy - Pope Francis will visit the northwestern Italian city of Genoa. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 29 OSLO - Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg will host a meeting of her colleagues from Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland in Bergen (to May 30). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 30 BERLIN – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Germany. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day. MADRID - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Spain. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 1 MOSCOW - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia and participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum & Annual Summit (to June 3). - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 3 LESOTHO - Lesotho national assembly election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 5 TOKYO - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the "Future of Asia" conference - 1230 GMT.

- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 6 TOKYO - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to deliver speech at symposium on future of Asia in Tokyo. LONDON - Spain King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia on a State visit to meet Queen Elizabeth in United Kingdom (to June 08). - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 ASTANA - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kazakhstan and participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit (to June 9). - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 8 LANGENBURG, Germany - Prince of Wales Charles Philip Arthur George and former UN Secretary General Kofi Atta Annan to speak at Langenburg Forum - 2200 GMT (to June 9). UNITED KINGDOM – UK general election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 11 FRANCE - National assembly election. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14 FRANKFURT - IMF Chief Christine Lagarde and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann to speak at a conference. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 18 ALBANIA - Parliament election. - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JUNE 24 PAPUA NEW GUINEA - National parliament election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 26 MONGOLIA – President election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 2 SENEGAL - Senegalese National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 4 MOSCOW - Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Russia. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 7 BERLIN – Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have agreed to hold a one-on-one meeting during the G20 summit in Germany (to July 8). - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY JULY 29 GABONESE REPUBLIC - Gabonese National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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