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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 ** VIETNAM - Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne will visit Vietnam.

** AZERBAIJAN - Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar holds talks with his counterparts from Azerbaijan and Georgia during a trilateral meeting in the northern city of Gebele ** LONDON - British finance minister Philip Hammond speaks at Bloomberg's "Sooner Than You Think" tech event at Central Hall, Westminster - 0940 GMT.

WASHINGTON D.C - Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze visits the United Sates (to June 14).

SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2019 (to June 16)

VIENNA - United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (to June 14).

GENEVA, Switzerland - Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President of Mali and Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso among the high-level speakers at ILO's annual labour conference marking its centenary. TEHRAN - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit Iran (to June 14). BUENOS AIRES - Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez visits Argentina

BOLIVIA - Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez meets with Bolivian President Evo Morales in La Paz.

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan speak to reporters ahead of a working dinner - 1700 GMT.

BISHKEK - Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga will pay an official visit to Kyrgyzstan (to June 13).

GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour ILO.

WASHINGTON DC, United States - U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Polish President Andrzej Duda at the White House.

OSLO - South Korean President Moon Jae-in on state visit to Norway (to June 13).

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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 ** ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Ankara and they hold a joint news conference.

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at the Chancellery in Berlin - 0730 GMT.

LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting. - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 14

GENEVA, Switzerland - Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, attends annual conference of the International Labour Conference ILO. OSLO - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will visit Oslo and meet his Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Soereide - 1100 GMT. VALLETTA, Malta - Leaders from EU southern states - Malta, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain - hold a summit in Valletta.

LUXEMBOURG - Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.

GAZA - 12th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 15 DUSHANBE - Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay an official visit to Tajikistan.

DUSHANBE - Russian President Vladimir Putin will participate in the fifth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Dushanbe.

KARUIZAWA, JAPAN - Energy ministers of the G20 nations gather in the Japanese city of Karuizawa. TALLINN - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on a state visit to Estonia.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Referendum election. SHANGHAI – 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival 2019 (to June 24).

GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).

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SUNDAY, JUNE 16 ** BEIJING - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid Mualem will visit China (to June 21).

GUATEMALA – President election. GUATEMALA - Guatemalan Congress of the Republic election.

- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 17 WARSAW - European Council President Donald Tusk is scheduled to be questioned by a parliamentary commission concerning accusations that his government did not take adequate measures to crack down on VAT fraud. GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 18 PARIS - Aerospace Meetings PARIS 2019 (to June 20).

LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 20 GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.

PERTH - Bill Johnston, Western Australia's minister for mines, will meet Hon Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia's energy minister, in Perth.

BRUSSELS - European Council meeting (to June 21). BANGKOK - ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (to June 23). BANGKOK - 34th ASEAN Summit.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21

GENEVA, Switzerland - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses ILO's conference as annual meeting closes.

BRUSSELS - EU leaders meet in Brussels for European Council Summit. MINSK - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will visit Belarus for the opening ceremony of the 2nd European Games in Minsk.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 22 MAURITANIA - President election. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 24 ** NEW DELHI/COLOMBO/TOKYO/SEOUL - US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will embark on a four-nation visit to India, Sri Lanka, Japan and South Korea (to June 30).

BERLIN – 71st 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 organize a massive airlift.

WELLINGTON - Launch of OECD Economic Surveys: New Zealand 2019.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25 NEW DELHI - US secretary of state Mike Pompeo visits India and meets Indian Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar (to June 26). LOS ANGELES - 10th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. LUXEMBOURG - General Affairs Council (Cohesion) meeting.

VIENNA - 176th Meeting of the OPEC Conference. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26

TOKYO - French President Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte visit Japan ahead of the G20 summit (to June 27) GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

VIENNA - 6th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 28 OSAKA, Japan - G20 summit (to June 29). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 29

PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 17th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash.

BEJING/TAIPEI - 9th anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan.

OSAKA, Japan - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 2

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

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

THURSDAY, JULY 4

** VATICAN CITY - Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican.

UNITED STATES - Independence Day. PARIS - G7 development and education ministers meet in France ahead of August summit.

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Friday, JULY 5

SONKAJARVI - Wife-Carrying World Championship 2019 (to July 6). - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 6

GLOBAL – 2019 International Day of Cooperatives. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 7

KATHMANDU – 72nd birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.

LONDON - 14th anniversary of the attacks on London's transport network, killing more than 50 and injuring 700. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 9

TEHRAN - 20th anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999.

JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Palestine marks the 14th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal.

SOUTH SUDAN – 8th anniversary of South Sudan becoming an independent state. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 11 GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day.

MUMBAI - 12th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.

VIENNA - Launch of OECD Economic Surveys: Austria 2019. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 14

PARIS - Bastille Day. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 18

GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day. - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 20

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

SUNDAY, JULY 21

BAKU - 2019 Summer European Youth Olympics Festival (to July 27). - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JULY 22

OSLO – 8th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 25

BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2019 (to Aug 28). - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 28

GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day.

GLOBAL – 105th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

PERU - 198th anniversary of Independence.

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