News: DIARY-Political and General News Events from August 4

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    THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 
    
    • APIA/ NUKU'ALOFA/ HONIARA/ CANBERRA/ WELLINGTON - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Australia, and New Zealand (To Aug 9)
    • CANBERRA - Edgars Rinkevics, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Latvia, is due to make an official visit to the Commonwealth of Australia (To Aug 8)
    • SALZBURG, Austria - Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering Tytti Tuppurainen will visit Salzburg, Austria (To Aug 5)
    • HAVANA/ BOGOTÁ/ SAN JOSÉ/ CARACAS - Nikola Selaković Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia will pay official visits to Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica and Venezuela (To Aug 12)
    • PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with Australian and New Zealand counterparts Penny Wong and Nanaia Mahuta, respectively – 0745 GMT.
    • PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers hold separate meetings as a bloc with counterparts of China, South Korea, Japan, Britain, India, Canada, Australia, Russia, the United States and the European Union, with Taiwan tensions, the Ukraine war and the crisis in Myanmar expected to dominate talks.
    • LIMA - Mexico's foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, is scheduled to meet with Peruvian President Pedro Castillo.

    PHNOM PENH - External Affairs Minister of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is set to visit Cambodia to attend the ASEAN-India ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh during which he will take stock of the ASEAN-India partnership (Final day)

    ANKARA - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Saifuddin Abdullah, will host the inaugural official visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (Final day)

    SUCRE - Mexico's foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard is set to visit Bolivia. (To Aug. 5)

    BAYREUTH, Germany - Annual Bayreuth festival 2022 (to Aug. 9).

    PHNOM PENH – 55th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) (to Aug. 6). PHNOM PENH – 12th EAS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (EAS FMM) (to Aug. 6). PHNOM PENH – 23rd APT Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (APT FMM) (to Aug. 6).

    NEW DELHI - Ibrahim Mohamed Solih President of the Maldives to make an official visit to India (Final day).

    GLOBAL – World Breastfeeding Week (to Aug. 7). PHNOM PENH - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting, ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers' Meeting, East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting, and a foreign ministers' meeting of ASEAN Regional Forum (To Aug 5)

    SINGAPORE - His Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister's Office of Brunei Darussalam, will make an official visit to Singapore (To Aug 5)

    PHNOM PENH - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in Phnom Penh to attend the U.S.-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. (To Aug. 5)

    PHNOM PENH - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, minister of foreign affairs of Pakistan, will be leading the Pakistan delegation at the 29th Ministerial Meeting of ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), being held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (To Aug. 6)

    GABORONE - Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, embarks on a working visit to the Republic of Botswana to lead talks at the high-level South Africa - Botswana Business Roundtable - 0700 GMT.

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their EU and U.S. counterparts Josep Borrell and Antony Blinken respectively – 0900 GMT. PHNOM PENH - The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell chairs the EU-Association of Southeast Asian Nations ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and meets ministers in the margins.

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet and their counterparts attend gala dinner.

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN Foreign Ministers meet with counterparts from EU and USA at the 55th ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting in Cambodia.

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their Chinese and South Korean counterparts Wang Yi and Park Jin respectively. - 0100 GMT

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their Japanese and British counterparts Yoshimasa Hayashi and Liz Truss respectively. - 0215 GMT

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN Plus Three foreign ministers, including ASEAN member states, China, Japan and South Korea, hold a meeting in Cambodia. - 0330 GMT

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their Indian and Canadian counterparts Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Melanie Joly respectively. - 0630 GMT

    UTOEYA, Norway - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to deliver a speech at the Norwegian Labour party youth wing's summer camp on the island of Utoeya, focusing on the importance of NATO and on Russia's war on Ukraine. - 0830 GMT

    PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov takes part in a ministerial meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nation.

    KINGSTON - President of Namibia Hage G Geingob and his wife Monica Geingos to visit Jamaica (to Aug. 8)

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    FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 
    

    • PHNOM PENH - Cambodia hosts the East Asia Summit and also the ASEAN Regional Forum, a defence and security gathering of foreign ministers of 27 countries, including the United States, Russia and Australia, with the war in Ukraine expected to take centre stage.

    PHNOM PENH - The East Asia Summit will bring together the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations and six dialogue partners in Phnom Penh – 0200 GMT.

    MANILA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to visit the Philippines (To Aug 6)

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with their East Asia foreign minister counterparts respectively.

    SOCHI, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Black Sea resort of Sochi.

    EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022 (To Aug 29).

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    SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 
    

    TOKYO - Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, to visit Japan, where Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is scheduled to hold a meeting with him.

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers meet with South Korean counterpart Park Jin respectively to discuss Mekong River issue.

    PHNOM PENH - ASEAN foreign ministers with Japan counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korean counterpart Park Jin to discuss about Mekong River.

    PHNOM PENH - Foreign ministers of of countries along Mekong river including Cambodia, Lao, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and India meet on Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Ministerial Meeting for cooperation in tourism, culture, education, as well as transport and communications. The meeting aim to facilitate closer contacts among the people inhabiting these two major river basins.

    HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Commemorations 77th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.

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    SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 
    

    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits South Africa, where he will hold talks on shared priorities for the two countries: health, infrastructure, trade and investment and climate. (To Aug. 9)

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    MONDAY, AUGUST 8 
    
    • TOKYO - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a news conference in Tokyo after attending the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing during World War.
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    TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 
    

    • WELLINGTON - Edgars Rinkevics, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, is due to make an official visit to New Zealand (To Aug 12)

    KINSHASA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Democratic Republic of Congo. (To Aug. 10)

    ANKARA - Slovenia President Borut Pahor will make a state visit to Turkey (to Aug. 10).

    NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 77th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.

    KENYA – President election. KENYA - Kenyan National Assembly election. KENYA - Kenyan Senate election.

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    THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 
    

    COPENHAGEN - Defence ministers of Ukraine, UK and Denmark will host Ukraine donors conference in Copenhagen.

    KIGALI - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits the East African nation of Rwanda.

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    FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 
    

    GLOBAL - International Youth Day.

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    SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 
    

    EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug 29)

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    SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 
    

    PAKISTAN – 75th Anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule. BANGKOK - 11th APEC Tourism Ministers Meeting and the 60th APEC Tourism Working Group Meeting (to August 20).

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    MONDAY, AUGUST 15 
    

    INDIA – 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule. JAPAN – 77th Anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two. LIECHTENSTEIN – 216th Anniversary of Independence.

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    FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 
    

    TRALEE, Ireland - 2022 Rose of Tralee International Festival (to Aug 23). GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day. MOSCOW – 30th Anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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    SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 
    

    SUNDAY – 9th Anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighbourhoods on the edge of Damascus.

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    TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 
    

    BALTIC WAY – 33rd 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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    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 
    

    POLAND - Poland marks the 33rd anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989. UKRAINE – 31st Anniversary of Independence. WASHINGTON – 210th Anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.

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    THURSDAY, AUGUST 25 
    

    URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day. PARIS – 78th Anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.

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    MONDAY, AUGUST 29 
    

    PRAGUE - EU informal meeting of defence ministers. (To Aug. 30)

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    TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 
    

    GENEVA - Human Rights Council - Organizational meeting on the 51st session.

    PRAGUE - EU foreign ministers meet in Prague (to Aug 31).

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    WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 
    

    VENICE, Italy – 79th Venice International Film Festival (to Sept 10).

    PRAGUE – EU informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers.

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    THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 
    

    LISBON - European Parliament President Roberta Metsola visits Portugal (to Sept. 2) LISBON - European Parliament President Roberta Metsola speaks at the Estoril conferences, giving a 20-minute speech under the theme 'The World ahead'. - 1130 GMT

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    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 
    

    VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russia holds VII Eastern Economic Forum (to September 8). PHNOM PENH - 14th CLMV Economic Ministers' Meeting. (To Sept. 11)

    PHNOM PENH - 54th ASEAN Economic Ministers' (AEM) Meeting and Related Meeting. (To Sept. 11)

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    THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 
    

    PRAGUE - EU economy and finance ministers' informal meeting in Prague. (to September 10)

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    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 
    

    PRAGUE – EU Informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers. (To Sept. 10)

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 
    

    SWEDEN - Swedish Parliament Election.

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    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 
    

    GENEVA – 51st regular session of the Human Rights Council (To Oct. 7)

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    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 
    

    NUR-SULTAN - On Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's invitation, Pope Francis will make a state visit to Kazakhstan. (To Sept. 15)

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    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 
    

    NEW YORK CITY - The high-level General Debate at the UN General Assembly (To Sept 26)

    BRUSSELS - EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 
    

    BRAZZAVILLE - The intergovernmental commission between Russia and the Republic of the Congo will meet in the Congo's capital of Brazzaville (To Sept 23)

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    SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 
    

    SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Sao Tomean National Assembly Election.

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