Political and General News Events from April 7

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——————————————————————– This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events ——————————————————————– THURSDAY, APRIL 7 ** ROME – Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi meets Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Rome. ** MOSCOW – Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani in Moscow. – 1100 GMT AMSTERDAM – Indian President Ram Nath Kovind to visit the Netherlands (Final Day). BRUSSELS – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Belgium to attend the NATO Foreign Ministerial (Final Day). LONDON – Polish President Andrzej Duda to meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a working visit to Great Britain. RABAT – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will pay a visit to Morocco to meet King Mohammed VI, as the two countries seek to improve ties after a diplomatic feud that flared up last year. – 1900 GMT BRUSSELS – EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi receives Georgia’s Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani. PRAGUE – EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson visits Prague, meets government officials (To April 08) STOCKHOLM – EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen visits Sweden. BRUSSELS – NATO foreign ministers gather in Brussels for a meeting to discuss the alliance’s response to the Ukraine crisis.

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ATHENS – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to address Greek parliament via teleconference. – 0900 GMT

GLOBAL – World Health Organisation observes World Health Day. NAIROBI – Kenya’s Finance Minister Ukur Yatani is scheduled to present the government’s spending plan for the 2022/23 (July-June) fiscal year to parliament – 1100 GMT ATHENS – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, ECB’s Philipp R. Lane, Greek Central Banker Stournaras, EU’S Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis, EU’s Commissioner for Energy are among speakers in Delphi Economic forum that will take place in Central Greece. (To April 9). – – – – – – – – –

FRIDAY, APRIL 8 ** MOSCOW – Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Moscow. ** BRUSSELS – NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, will meet with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, Eui-yong Chung, at NATO Headquarters. KYIV – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visits Kyiv. MANILA – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to speak virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Helsinki – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits Finland and holds talks with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin. SOFIA – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visits Bulgaria in relation to the EU’s coronavirus recovery plan.

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LONDON – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz travels to London to meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – 11th anniversary of signing a bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, START-2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).

GLOBAL – International Roma Nation Day. – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY , APRIL 9 TOKYO – Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi and Philippine’s Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana hold meetings called “two-plus-two” in Tokyo. – – – – – – – – –

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 SMOLENSK, Russia/CRACOW, Poland – 12th Anniversary of the Smolensk Tragedy to be held in Smolensk, Russia, as well as in Poland. PARIS, France – Presidential election (First round) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY APRIL 11 ** BERLIN – German chancellor Olaf Scholz gives press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. – 1600 GMT BERLIN – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes Albanian Prime Minister Ed Rama at Bellevue Castle in Berlin – 1300 GMT

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FRANCE – 11th Anniversary of the French law banning the burqa and niqab.

ABIDJAN – 11th anniversary of the arrest of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by supporters of president-elect Alassane Ouattara with the help of French forces, thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war.

LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, APRIL 12 GLOBAL – International Day of Human Space Flight. LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – –

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

BELFAST/NEW YORK – 109th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 16

VATICAN CITY – 95th birthday of Pope Benedict. – – – – – – – – –

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 OSLO – Finnish President Sauli Niinisto on official visit to Norway (to April 22). UNITED STATES – 12th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. – – – – – – – – –

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THURSDAY, APRIL 21 LONDON – Queen Elizabeth to celebrate her 96th birthday.

PARIS – 61th anniversary of the first manned mission to space. BRUSSELS – EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager speaks on artificial intelligence at a Politico event – 0700 GMT. – – – – – – – – –

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

GLOBAL – Earth Day.

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GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day. – – – – – – – – –

SUNDAY, APRIL 24 LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Slovenian National Assembly election. PARIS, France – Presidential election (Second round) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, APRIL 25 GLOBAL – World Malaria Day. NEW YORK, United States – Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up including the special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. (to Apr. 28) – – – – – – – – –

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THURSDAY, APRIL 28

PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania – 24th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. – – – – – – – – –

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

LONDON – 11th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. – – – – – – – – –

SUNDAY, MAY 1 VATICAN CITY – 11th anniversary of beatification ceremony of late Pope John Paul II. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 2 ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – The day marks the 11th year since al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. special forces raid, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 3 GLOBAL – World Asthma Day. GLOBAL – World Press Freedom Day. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 8 GLOBAL – World Red Cross Red Crescent Day. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 9 MANILA, Philippines – Presidential election. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 TURIN, Italy, – 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (To May 14). – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 12 GLOBAL – International Nurse’s Day. WEISSENHAUS, Germany – EU Foreign Minister meeting in Weissenhaus,Schleswig-Holstein (To May 14) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 15 GLOBAL – U.N. International Day of Families. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 16 LISBON – 10th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 17 GLOBAL – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 BONN, Germany – Germany hosts the finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 7 (G7) (to May 20) GLOBAL – International Museum Day. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, MAY 20 BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, MAY 21

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BANGKOK – APEC holds Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) Meeting. (To May 22) – – – – – – – – –

SUNDAY, MAY 22 GLOBAL – International Day for Biological Diversity. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 23 BRUSSELS – Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 24 BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 26 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 General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 31 GLOBAL – World No Tobacco Day. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 ** KATHMANDU – 20th anniversary of Nepal King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family assassinated by Crown Prince in royal family massacre. – – – – – – – – – 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. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 ** SYDNEY – Sydney Film Festival 2020 (to June 19) – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, June 10 ** SHANGHAI – Shanghai International Film Festival 2020 (to June 19) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JUNE 12 ** GLOBAL – World Day against Child Labour. – – – – – – – – – 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 – Eurogroup meeting. LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 17 ** GLOBAL – United Nation’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JUNE 20 ** GLOBAL – World Refugee Day. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 ** BERLIN – International Air Show (to June 25).

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THURSDAY, JUNE 30 FRANCE – Election for National Assembly of France.

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