DIARY-Political and General News Events from July 6
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MONDAY, JULY 6
** JAKARTA/WELLINGTON/SYDNEY– Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits on the first leg of his three-nation tour, aimed at strengthening India's Act East Policy. (To July 11)
** BAKU - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visits Kyrgyzstan to discuss key issues of bilateral cooperation, as well as interaction within the UN, SCO, OIC and ECO (To July 9)
** ANKARA - Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu visits Turkiye to attend the NATO Summit-related events (To July 9)
** ANKARA – U.S. President Donald Trump visits Turkey for NATO Leaders' Social Dinner, and holds talks with Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
(To July 8)
** JAKARTA – Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong visits Indonesia.
** BEIJING - Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will be in China where she will hold bilateral talks with President Xi Jinping and other senior government officials. (To July 11)
** MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will meet Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during Pashinyan's first visit to Russia since his recent re-election.
** JAKARTA - Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong meets Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at Jakarta presidential palace. - 0300 GMT
** GENEVA - The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, will take part of a conference on AI Governance Dialogue in Geneva. - 0630 GMT
** ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan holds talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte a day ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.
** ANKARA - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte holds press conference day ahead of summit in Ankara - 1345 GMT
** BERLIN - German Finance Minister Klingbeil presents budget for 2027 - 1500 GMT
NEW YORK - Swiss President Guy Parmelin will visit the United States and meet with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer (To July 9)
STOCKHOLM/HELSINKI/COPENHAGEN/OSLO - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, and hold talks with his respective counterparts (To July 8)
BUCHAREST - Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand will pay an official visit to Romania at the invitation of Romanian counterpart Oana Țoiu.
OSLO - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets his Norwegian counterpart Espen Barth Eide and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere to discuss bilateral issues.
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TUESDAY, JULY 7
** JAKARTA - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets President Prabowo Subianto at Jakarta presidential palace.
** BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy deliver short remarks at NATO Congresium. 1200 GMT
TOKYO - Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand is scheduled to visit Japan (to July 11).
KATHMANDU - 79th birthday of Nepal's Gyanendra, the last king of the Himalayan nation, who was deposed in 2008
LONDON – 21st anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, in which more than 50 people were killed and 700 injured.
ANKARA - Turkey hosts NATO summit (To July 8)
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8
KUALA LUMPUR - French Trade Minister Nicolas Forissier holds a press conference during a visit to Malaysia. - 1100 GMT
MINSK - President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Belarus (To July 9)
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THURSDAY, JULY 9
ATHENS - President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and energy ministers of Bulgaria and Moldova speak at an Economist conference in Athens on "Progress in an age of upheaval".
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting
TEHRAN - 26th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks 21st anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.
SOUTH SUDAN – 15th Anniversary of South Sudan becoming an Independent State
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FRIDAY, JULY 10
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council
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SATURDAY, JULY 11
GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day
MUMBAI - 19th anniversary of the deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network
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MONDAY, JULY 13
SEOUL - Member of the British royal family, Princess Anne and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence, will make a three-day trip to South Korea. (To July 15)
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council
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TUESDAY, JULY 14
LONDON - UK finance minister Rachel Reeves gives annual 'Mansion House' speech in London's financial district, including details of future AI regulation.
BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council Meeting
PARIS - Bastille Day
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FRIDAY, JULY 17
GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice, which commemorates the adoption of the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, the Rome Statute.
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SATURDAY, JULY 18
GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day
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SUNDAY, JULY 19
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Sao Tomean Presidency Election
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MONDAY, JULY 20
MANILA - ASEAN foreign ministers hold an annual meeting.
CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
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TUESDAY, JULY 21
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 26th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 22
BRUSSELS – EU-UK summit
OSLO – 15th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island, where 77 people were killed.
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FRIDAY, JULY 24
MANILA - The Philippines hosts foreign ministers from 59 countries to commemorate the 50th year anniversary of the signing of Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia.
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MONDAY, JULY 27
BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) Meeting.
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TUESDAY, JULY 28
GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day
GLOBAL – 112th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1
PERU – 205th anniversary of Independence
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1
** GLOBAL – World Breastfeeding Week (To August 7)
** WARSAW – Poland marks 82nd anniversary of its war-time Warsaw uprising against the Nazi occupation.
** CHINA – 99th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7
** EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 (To August 31)
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6
** HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Commemorations 81st Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 9
** NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 81st Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12
** GLOBAL - International Youth Day
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14
** ISLAMABAD – 79th anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule
** LEBANON - Hezbollah marks 20th anniversary of its "divine victory" - the end of its war with Israel.
** TRALEE, Ireland - 2026 Rose of Tralee International Festival (To August 18)
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
** EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (To August 30)
** TOKYO – 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two
** NEW DELHI – 79th anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule
** LIECHTENSTEIN – 220th anniversary of Independence
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19
** GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day
** MOSCOW – 34th Anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
** DAMASCUS, Syria - 13th anniversary of nerve gas attack that killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighbourhoods on the edge of Damascus.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23
** BALTIC WAY - 37th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 24
** WARSAW - Poland marks the 37th anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989
** KYIV – 35th anniversary of Independence
** WASHINGTON, D.C. – 214th anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the U.S. Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 25
** URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day
** PARIS – 82nd anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War
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