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MONDAY, MAY 3 LONDON – Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi will hold talks with his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in London. TRIPOLI – Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar pays surprise visit to Libya. LONDON – Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will begin a four-day visit to the United Kingdom to participate in the G7 foreign ministers meeting and to hold bilateral meetings with his British interlocutors. (To May 6) LONDON – British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a news conference ahead of the first meeting of G7 foreign ministers in two years.
– This diary is filed daily. Indicates new events – MONDAY, APRIL 26 BAGHDAD – Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visits Baghdad on Monday and gives a joint statement with his Iraqi counterpart, Fouad Hussein. MADRID – Spain’s Economy Minister Nadia Calvino attends an event to discuss the EU rescue funds – 1000 GMT. BRUSSELS – Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic takes part in meeting with EU institutions leaders. PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Paris for a working lunch. Both leaders give statements upon Steinmeier’s arrival – 1100 GMT. BRUSSELS – The European Council and the European Commission address the European Parliament on the outcome of a high-level meeting between the EU and Turkey on April 6 – 1500 GMT. PRAGUE – Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek speaks at news conference – 1100 GMT. BRUSSELS – EU trade
FRIDAY, APRIL 23 LJUBLJANA – Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou laid a wreath at the Monument to the Victims of all Wars in Ljubljana during a visit to Slovenia at the invitation of her counterpart Borut Pahor. LISBON – Portugal’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva opens conference EU-Africa Green Investment Forum – 0800 GMT. VIENNA – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein hold news conference on reopening the country – 1200 GMT. GENEVA – WHO to mark one-year anniversary of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator – 1300 GMT. LISBON – Portugal’s Defense Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho holds workshop with several EU defense ministers and secretaries of state about the Strategic Compass – 1530 GMT. ISTANBUL – Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammed Hanif Atmar, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shan Mahmood Qureshi and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu hold talks in Istanbul – 1600 GMT. HANOI – Vietna
MONDAY, APRIL 19 MADRID – Spain´s prime minister Pedro Sanchez meets President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei in Madrid. JAKARTA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is scheduled to meet his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta for a bilateral meeting. MADRID – Spain´s prime minister Pedro Sanchez meets president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, in Madrid. TOKYO – Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets with Alok Sharma, president of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Tokyo, followed by a meeting between Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Alok Sharma – 0530 GMT. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Ministers will be briefed by the bloc’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, about recent developments in foreign affairs. The ministers will also discuss developments in Ethiopia and Ukraine, along with a new Czech dispute with Russia – 0730 GMT. LONDON – UK finance minister Rishi Sunak spea
TUESDAY, APRIL 13 BRUSSELS – EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides presents Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan at a virtual event organized by the EU – 1600 GMT. TOKYO – Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defence Minsiter Nobuo Kishi will hold a talk with their German counterparts via a video conference – 0530 GMT. TEHRAN – Prime Minister of South Korea Chung Sye-kyun will visit Iran for talks on bilateral ties and other issues. (Final day)
NEW YORK – Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up including the special high-level meetings of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. (To April 15)