May 27 (Reuters) -
For other diaries, please see:

Political and General News POL/DIARY

Top Economic Events M/DIARY

Emerging Markets Economic Events EMRG/DIARY

Government Debt Auctions D/DIARY

U.S. Federal Reserve FED/DIARY

Today in Washington WASH/DIARY

--------------------------------------------------------------------
This diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events
--------------------------------------------------------------------

TUESDAY, MAY 27

** KUALA LUMPUR - Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaks during an official dinner between ASEAN Countries, Gulf countries, and China on the sidelines of the 46th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur.

** TOKYO - Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Gan Kim Yong's visit to Japan (to May 29).

** LONDON - Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and his accompanying delegation arrived in London for an official visit - 10:37 GMT

** KUALA LUMPUR - China's Premier Li Qiang attends the inaugural Asean-GCC-China summit in Malaysia, following an official visit to Indonesia (To May 28).

** TURKU, Finland - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson meet in the Finnish city of Turku - 0530 GMT.

** ATHENS - The European Union's climate policy chief Wopke Hoekstra meets Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis – 0700 GMT.

** BRASILIA - President of the European Council, António Costa, begins an official visit to Brazil (to May 29).

** WASHINGTON, D.C. - Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will be visiting Washington, D.C. (to May 29)

KATHMANDU/NEW DELHI/COLOMBO/CANBERRA - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of New Zealand, Winston Peters, is set to visit Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and Australia (To May 31).

ANKARA/TEHRAN/BAKU/DUSHANBE - The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, is embarking on a visit to Türkiye, Iran, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. (To May 30)

ULAANBAATAR - At the invitation of President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, President of the Republic of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen will pay a state visit to Mongolia. (To May 28)

HANOI - President of France Emmanuel Macron and his spouse will pay a state visit to Vietnam. (Final Day)

MOSCOW - Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan to visit Russia (Final Day)

OSAKA, Kansai, Japan - Halla Tomasdottir, President of Iceland, will visit Japan to attend Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. (To June 1)

OTTAWA - Britain King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit Canada. (Final Day)

HANOI - Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok and his spouse will pay an official visit to Vietnam. (To May 29)

MUSCAT - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will pay an official visit to Muscat at the invitation of Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq (To May 28).

BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives Polish President Andrzej Duda with military honours at Schloss Bellevue palace in Berlin – 0930 GMT.

JAKARTA – French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to visit Indonesia and meet his counterpart President Prabowo Subianto, during his Southeast Asia trip (To May 29)

OSAKA, Kansai, Japan - His Royal Highness Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and Yuriko Backes, Minister of Defence, Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Minister for Gender Equality and Diversity will visit Japan to attend Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. (To June 2)

BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.

- - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28

** TASHKENT - The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, will pay an official visit to Uzbekistan (to May 29).

** COLOMBO - Radoslaw Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, in the context of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union, will undertake an official visit to Sri Lanka (to May 31).

- - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, MAY 29

** SINGAPORE - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Singapore and is due to speak at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's top defence conference (To May 30).

AACHEN, Germany - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen receives the Charlemagne Prize (Karlspreis) 2024 in Aachen - 0915 GMT

- - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, MAY 30

** RIGA - Prime Ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania meet in Riga – 1000 GMT.

** NAIROBI - Slovenia President Nataša Pirc set for three-day state visit to Kenya (to June 1).

- - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, MAY 31

GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day.

- - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 1

POLAND - Polish presidential election (second round)

KATHMANDU - 24th anniversary of Nepal King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family assassinated in royal family massacre.

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 2

** New DELHI - Paraguay President Santiago Pena Palacios will pay a state visit to India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi (to June 4).

WARSAW - EU-US Justice and Home Affairs ministerial meeting. (To June 3)

GENEVA – ILO, International Labour Conference, 113th session. (To June 13)

VILNIUS - Leaders from NATO's eastern flank arrive in Vilnius for a meeting ahead of the Hague NATO summit later in June, including the Bucharest Nine - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia - and the Nordics - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

- - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 3

PARIS - OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2025. (To June 4)

South Korea - South Korean Presidency election

- - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4

BERLIN - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives Singapore's President Tharman Shanmugaratnam with military honours at Schloss Bellevue palace in Berlin – 1300 GMT.

CHILE – 14th anniversary of Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia.

SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2025 (to June 15)

- - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 5

BRUSSELS - Defence ministers from NATO members will gather in Brussels ahead of a leaders' summit later in June.

GLOBAL - World Environment Day.

BURUNDI - Burundian National Assembly election

- - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 6

SEOUL - South Korea marks the 70th anniversary of Memorial Day.

- - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 7

MONACO - Monaco welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron for a state visit (to June 8)

- - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 8

ITALY – Referendum election.

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 9

SPAIN – 33rd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (to Jun 12).

- - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 12

LUXEMBOURG - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting. (to June 13)

GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour ILO.

- - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 14

GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.

GAZA - 18th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.

GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).

- - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 15

CALGARY, Canada - U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the annual summit of G7 nations in Calgary, Alberta (To June 17)

KANANASKIS, Canada - Canada hosts the G7 Leaders' Summit in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Kananaskis, Alberta (To June 17)

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 16

LUXEMBOURG - EU energy and environment ministers meet in Luxembourg. (To June 17)

- - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 17

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

- - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 19

LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting

- - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 20

GLOBAL - World Refugee Day

LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting

- - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 21

GLOBAL - International Yoga Day

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 23

WARSAW – EU Informal meeting of tourism ministers. (To June 24)

LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting

- - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 24

BERLIN - 77th 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.

LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Leaders of NATO countries gather in The Hague, Netherlands, for the annual NATO summit. (To June 26)

- - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25

LOS ANGELES - 16th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson.

- - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 26

GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to June 27)

- - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 29

PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 23rd anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.

BEJING/TAIPEI - 15th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.

- - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 1

CHINA – 104th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China.

- - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2

SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena".

GLOBAL - World UFO Day on the anniversary of the Roswell incident.

- - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JULY 4

UNITED STATES - Independence Day.

SONKAJARVI - Wife-Carrying World Championship 2025 (To July 5)

- - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 5

GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives.

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JULY 7

KATHMANDU - 78th birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.

LONDON - 20th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, in which more than 50 people were killed and 700 injured.

- - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 8

KUALA LUMPUR - 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meetings (AMM) and Post-Ministerial Conferences (PMC) (To July 11)

LONDON - French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron will have a state visit to Britain at the invitation of King Charles.

- - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 9

TEHRAN - 25th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999.

JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks 20th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.

SOUTH SUDAN – 14th Anniversary of South Sudan becoming an Independent State.

VIENNA, Austria - 9th OPEC International Seminar. (To July 10)

- - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JULY 11

GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.

MUMBAI - 18th anniversary of the deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JULY 14

PARIS - Bastille Day.

- - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 17

GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice, which commemorates the adoption of the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, the Rome Statute

KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa – G20 Finance and Central Bank Ministerial Meeting. (To July 18)

- - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JULY 18

GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.

- - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 20

CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JULY 21

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 25th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135.

- - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 22

OSLO – 14th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island, where 77 people were killed.

- - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 24

BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2025 (To Aug 26).

- - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JULY 28

GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.

GLOBAL – 111th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

PERU – 204th anniversary of Independence.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

NOTE: The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will file a story based on the event.

For Technical Issues Please Contact Thomson Reuters Customer Support (TRCS) at

https://customers.reuters.com/kccontactus/telephone.aspx

((Diaries@thomsonreuters.com))