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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, MAY 29

** CAIRO - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will visit Egypt. VIENNA – IAEA International Symposium on Understanding Moderate Malnutrition in Children for Effective Interventions (Final Day).

MOSCOW – Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak to meet Spain Energy Minister Alvaro Nadal Belda in Moscow – 1130 GMT. BERLIN – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Germany (to May 30). PARIS – Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Paris and meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. 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 ** VIENNA - Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern will hold a news conference with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

** JAKARTA - Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn will visit Indonesia and meet Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi. HANOI - Queen Máxima of the Netherlands to visit Vietnam (to June 1).

MADRID - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Spain (to May 31). TBILISI - Polish President Andrzej Duda to visit Georgia - 1400 GMT.

BERLIN/ BRUSSELS - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit Germany and Belgium (to June 2). - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 CAIRO - Sudan Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour to visit Egypt. WASHINGTON - Organization of American States (OAS) Foreign Ministers gather in Washington D.C. for a meeting on Venezuela - 1800 GMT. GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 1 KATHMANDU - 15th death anniversary of Nepal King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family assassinated by Crown Prince in royal family massacre.

MOSCOW - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia and participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum & Annual Summit (to June 2). - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 2 ** SOFIA - European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis to visit Bulgaria.

PARIS - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit France and meet with French President Emmanuel Macron (to June 3). ROME – 156th Anniversary of the unification of Italy. DUBLIN - Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Michel Servoz, the European Commission's Director-General of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, speak at event on Irish, EU economies – 1130 GMT. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 3 KRANJ, Slovenia - German President Frank Walter Steinmeier attends a regional summit hosted by Slovenian President Borut Pahor. LESOTHO - Lesotho national assembly election. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 4 ** TOKYO - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to visit Japan (to June 8). OTTAWA – Chile President Michelle Bachelet to visit Canada (to June 6).

CHILE – 6th anniversary of Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption that caused air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia.

HONG KONG - Tens of thousands attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 5

GLOBAL - World Environment Day. GUATEMALA CITY - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto visits Guatemala to meet Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales (to June 6). TOKYO - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the "Future of Asia" conference - 1230 GMT. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 6

KALININGRAD, Russia – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak in Kaliningrad. SEOUL - South Korea marks the 62nd anniversary of Memorial Day.

PARIS - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Forum 2017(to June 7). 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 SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2016 (to June 18) PARIS - OECD annual Ministerial Council Meeting starts in Paris (to June 8). 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. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 10 ** ROME - Pope Francis will visit Italian President Sergio Mattarella at Mattarella's office in the Quirinale palace in Rome. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 11 FRANCE - National assembly election. - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 12 GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour.

AMSTERDAM – 25th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (to June 15). - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14 GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.

GAZA - 10th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah. GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).

FRANKFURT - IMF Chief Christine Lagarde and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann to speak at a conference. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 16 BRUSSELS - European Union Finance Ministers will meet in Brussels. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 17

GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai International Film Festival 2017 (to June 26). - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 18 ALBANIA - Parliament election. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 20 GLOBAL - World Refugee Day. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 24

BERLIN - 69th 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 organise a massive airlift. PAPUA NEW GUINEA - National parliament election. - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 25

LOS ANGELES - 8th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson.

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MONDAY, JUNE 26 GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. MONGOLIA – President election. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 29 PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 15th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.

BEJING/TAIPEI - 7th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 2 SENEGAL - Senegalese National Assembly election. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 4 MOSCOW - Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Russia. - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 JERUSALEM – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Israel (to July 6). - - - - - - - - -

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). - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 9 KIEV - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the alliance's ambassadors in Brussels will visit Ukraine (to July 10). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY JULY 29 GABONESE REPUBLIC - Gabonese National Assembly election.

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