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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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