DIARY-Political and General News Events from June 2

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TUESDAY, JUNE 2 ** NEW DELHI - Deputy President of South Africa Paul Mashatile is undertaking a working visit to ​India to engage with business leaders and investors and attract more investment for both countries. (to Jun 3)

** TOKYO - Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will visit Japan and will meet ​with his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi and Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara. (to June 10) ** TOKYO - Badr Abdelatty, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ‌International Cooperation and Expatriates ​of Egypt will pay a visit to Japan. (to Jun 5)

** JAKARTA - Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin meets his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Saoud bin Abdurrahman bin Hassan bin Ali Al Thani. - 0300 GMT ** TIRANA - European Council President Antonio Costa visits Albania, meets Prime Minister Edi Rama. The visit comes ahead of an EU-Western Balkans summit in Montenegro on Friday. - 0915 GMT

** ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino in Athens. - 1300 GMT ** SKOPJE, North Macedonia - European Council President Antonio Costa visits North Macedonia, meets Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski. The visit comes ahead of an EU-Western Balkans summit ‌in Montenegro on Friday. - 1500 GMT PARIS - Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio will travel to Paris. (To June 4) BEIJING - United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will visit China where the two countries will hold the 11th China-UK Strategic Dialogue. (To June 3) WELLINGTON/SYDNEY - Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath visits New Zealand and Australia (To June 3). NEW DELHI - Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visits India (To June 3)

BEIJING – Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira visits China at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. (Final day) LISBON - Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will visit Portugal, celebrating the historical ties and modern relationship between the UK and Portugal (to June 3). SANTO DOMINGO - Suriname's President, Jennifer Geerlings-Simons will make a two-day visit to the Dominican Republic. (Final day) GENEVA - International Labour Conference, 114th session. (To June 12)

HELSINKI - Serbian Minister ‌of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić will visit Helsinki and meet Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen to discuss EU enlargement, the Western Balkans, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and security in Europe (To June 3) PRETORIA/DODOMA - President of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam will make a working visit to the Republic of South Africa and a state visit to the United Republic of Tanzania. (To June 10) SINGAPORE - ‌Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to deliver major address to IISS in Singapore - 0930 GMT - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3

** ASTANA - President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan. CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to welcome Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale for a Leaders' Meeting TSHWANE, South Africa - President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa will host His Excellency President William Samoei Ruto of the Republic of Kenya on a State Visit at the Union Buildings in Tshwane. (To June 5) PARIS - OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2026 (to June 4). SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival 2026 (to June 14). - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 4 ** MOSCOW/MINSK - Vice President of China Han Zheng to visit Russia and Belarus (to June 8)

CHILE – 15th anniversary of Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia. LUXEMBOURG - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council (To June 5) - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JUNE 5

TIVAT - EU-Western Balkans summit GLOBAL - World Environment Day - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 SEOUL - South Korea marks the 71st anniversary of Memorial Day - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 PERU - Peruvian Presidency Election. KOSOVO - Kosovo holds parliamentary election ARMENIA - Armenian ⁠National Assembly Election VIENNA – OPEC 66th ​JMMC Meeting LEFKOSIA – EU Informal meeting of defence ministers (To June 8) - - - - - - - - -

MONDAY, JUNE 8 MADRID - Pope Leo meets with Spanish ⁠Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. - 0730 GMT

MADRID - Pope Leo addresses Spanish parliament during visit to Madrid - 0830 GMT - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JUNE 9 TALLINN - The Prime Ministers of the Baltic States and Nordic countries will meet in Estonia.

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** HELSINKI - The President of the Republic of Kenya, William Samoei Ruto, and his wife, Rachel Ruto, will arrive on a state visit to Finland. (To June 11) ** VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender are paying a state visit to the Netherlands. The ⁠visit focuses on the political, economic, and cultural-historical relations between Germany and the Netherlands. (To June 11) BERLIN - International Air Show (To June 14) - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 11 DODOMA - Tanzania's Finance Minister Khamis Mussa Omar presents the 2026-27 (July-June) budget to Parliament. - 1200 GMT NAIROBI - Kenya's Finance Minister John Mbadi to present the 2026-27 (July-June) fiscal budget to Parliament. - 1100 GMT

LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup Meeting - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 12 GLOBAL - World Day against Child Labour

LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JUNE 14 GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day

GAZA - 19th anniversary of Hamas ​takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah. GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

SWITZERLAND – Referendum Election - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 15

LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council ATHENS - Greece hosts defence conference in Athens (To June 16) EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France - G7 summit starts in Evian-les-Bains, France. (To June 17) - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JUNE 16 LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 THE HAGUE - Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on state visit to the ⁠Netherlands. (To June 19)

GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JUNE 18

BRUSSELS - NATO defence ministers meet at the alliance headquarters in Brussels. BRUSSELS - European Council (To June 19) - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JUNE 20 GLOBAL - World Refugee Day - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JUNE 21 GLOBAL - International Yoga Day - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24

BRUSSELS - Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on state visit to Belgium. BERLIN - 78th 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. MACAO SAR, People's Republic of ⁠China - ​APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting (To June 28) - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JUNE 25 LOS ANGELES - 17th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson - - - - - - - - -

FRIDAY, JUNE 26 GLOBAL - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JUNE 29 PYEONGTAEK - South Korea observes the 24th anniversary of an inter-Korean sea clash

BEIJING/TAIPEI - 16th Anniversary of signing of a landmark trade deal between China and Taiwan - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 CHINA – 105th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China. - - - - - - - - -

THURSDAY, JULY 2 GLOBAL - World UFO Day on the anniversary of the Roswell incident.

SIENA - July annual horse race "Palio di Siena". ALGERIA - Algerian National People's Assembly Election - - - - - - - - -

SATURDAY, JULY 4 UNITED STATES - Independence Day.

GLOBAL - International Day of Cooperatives. - - - - - - - - -

TUESDAY, JULY 7 KATHMANDU - 79th birthday of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra.

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) - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, ⁠JULY 9

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. - - - - - - - - -

SUNDAY, JULY 10 BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council. - - - - - - - - -

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

MUMBAI - 19th anniversary ⁠of the deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 13

BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 14

PARIS - Bastille ⁠Day. - - - - - - - - - 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 - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 18

GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day. - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 20

CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974. - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 21

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fl – 26th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after successful completion of mission STS-135. - - - - - - - - -

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 OSLO – 15th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island, where 77 people were killed. - - - - - - - - - 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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GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day. GLOBAL – 112th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

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