DIARY-Political and General News Events from April 1

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TUESDAY, APRIL 1

PARIS, France - French Finance Minister Eric Lombard and his Brazilian counterpart Fernando Haddad hold a joint news briefing after talks in Paris - 1130 GMT

WASHINGTON D.C., United States - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Argentine Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein at the State Department - 1900 GMT

NEW DELHI - Caspar Veldkamp, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is on his first official visit to India (Final Day)

KYIV - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her Latvian counterpart Kęstutis Budrys arrives in Kyiv

WASHINGTON DC - Argentina's foreign minister Gerardo Werthein is traveling to the United States aiming to bolster ties between the two nations and lay groundwork for a potential trade deal. (Final Day)

GENEVA - 58th Session of the Human Rights Council (to April 4)

BAKU, Azerbaijan - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit Azerbaijan and Armenia. (to April 2)

MOSCOW - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Russia. (To April 2)

HANOI - King Philippe and the Queen of Belgium will pay a state visit to Vietnam. (To April 4)

ASTANA - Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar will visit Kazakhstan for bilateral talks. (Final Day)

FRANCE - Denmark's King Frederik X and Queen Mary on State visit to France (to April 2)

WARSAW - Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson participates in a ceremony as Sweden joins the NATO Air Policing mission, together with Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

MOSCOW - Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son will visit Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (April 4)

NEW DELHI - At the invitation of Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, President of the Republic of Chile H.E. Gabriel Boric Font will pay a state visit to India. - 0630 GMT (To April 5)

BANGKOK - Nepalese Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli will officially visit Thailand for the first time in over 60 years. (To April 5)

BERLIN – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit Germany. (To April 3)

SLOVAKIA - Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Slovakia's High Tatras mountains.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

PODGORICA - Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset will pay an official visit to Podgorica

PARIS - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is set to pay an official visit to France

BUDAPEST - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Hungary (to April 6)

NUUK - Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen will visit Greenland (To Apr. 4)

GLOBAL - World Autism Awareness Day.

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina marks 43rd anniversary of start of Falklands war.

PRISTINA - Britain’s Foreign Minister David Lammy meets Kosovo leaders and visits British troops in Kosovo serving under NATO’s peacekeeping mission.

WARSAW – EU informal meeting of defense ministers (to April 3)

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THURSDAY, APRIL 3

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Allied foreign ministers will meet at NATO headquarters in a meeting chaired by Secretary-General Mark Rutte. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to attend for the first time - 0530 GMT (To April 4)

HANOI - President of Burundi Evariste Ndayishimiye and his spouse is going to pay an official visit to Vietnam (To Apr. 6)

MADRID - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz travels to Madrid where he will hold talks with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez over dinner.

BANGKOK - Foreign minister from South Asia and Southeast Asian countries arrive in Bangkok to join the 20th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting - 0200 GMT.

BANGKOK – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bangkok to participate in the 6th BIMSTEC Summit to be held on 4 April 2025, hosted by Thailand. (to April 4)

SAMARKAND - First EU-Central Asia summit (to April 4)

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4

SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon des Sables (to April 14).

GLOBAL - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 5

NAYPYIDAW - Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan will undertake a humanitarian visit to Myanmar.

COLOMBO - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka for an official visit.

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MONDAY, APRIL 7

GLOBAL - World Health Organisation observes World Health Day.

TALLINN - Polish President Andrzej Duda pays 3-day visit to Estonia. (To April 9).

CAIRO - French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Egypt. (To April 8)

LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 8

LONDON - Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will visit London to discuss the proposed free trade agreement and bilateral investment treaty with the UK (To April 10)

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – 14th anniversary of signing a bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, START-2 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).

GLOBAL - International Roma Nation Day.

LONDON - Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto discusses European security challenges at RUSI event in London.

OSLO - At the invitation of Their Majesties King Harald and Queen Sonja, the President of Iceland, Halla Tomasdottir, and her husband Bjorn Skulason will pay a state visit to Norway (To April 10)

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THURSDAY, APRIL 10

SMOLENSK, Russia/CRACOW, Poland - 15th Anniversary of the Smolensk Tragedy to be held in Smolensk, Russia, as well as in Poland.

AUGUSTA, United States - U.S. Masters Golf 2025 (to April 13)

CAPE TOWN - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit South Africa.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 11

FRANCE – 14th Anniversary of the French law banning the burqa and niqab.

ABIDJAN – 14th anniversary of the arrest of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo by supporters of president-elect Alassane Ouattara with the help of French forces, thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war.

BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

WARSAW – EU informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers (to April 12)

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SATURDAY, APRIL 12

GLOBAL - International Day of Human Space Flight.

GABON - Gabonese Presidency Election.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 13

Ecuador - Ecuadorian Presidency Election.

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MONDAY, APRIL 14

LUXEMBOURG - EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 15

AMSTERDAM - At the invitation of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander, His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said of Oman will pay a state visit to the Netherlands. (To April 16)

BELFAST/NEW YORK – 112th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16

GENEVA - The WTO will release its global trade outlook for 2025 - 1200 GMT

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TUESDAY, APRIL 18

WASHINGTON DC - G20 finance ministers and central bank governors.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 20

UNITED STATES - 15th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.

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MONDAY, APRIL 21

PARIS – 64th anniversary of the first manned mission to space.

BOSTON - 2025 Boston Marathon.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 22

GLOBAL - Earth Day.

DHAKA – Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to undertake his first ever three-day high-level visit to Bangladesh. (To April 24).

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23

GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day.

WASHINGTON DC - G20 finance and central bank ministerial meeting (to April 24)

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THURSDAY, APRIL 24

GLOBAL - World Immunization Week 2025 (to April 30).

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FRIDAY, APRIL 25

GLOBAL - World Malaria Day.

WASHINGTON DC - World financial leaders gather for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings (to April 26)

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SUNDAY, APRIL 27

LONDON - 2025 London Marathon.

VENEZUELA - Venezuelan National Assembly Election.

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MONDAY, APRIL 28

CANADA - Canadian House of Commons Election.

PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania – 27th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives Election.

NEW YORK, United States - Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up, including the special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD. (To April 29)

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TUESDAY, APRIL 29

LONDON – 14th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30

CAYMAN ISLANDS - Cayman Legislative Assembly Election.

CAYMAN ISLANDS – Referendum Election.

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THURSDAY, MAY 1

VATICAN CITY – 14th anniversary of beatification ceremony of late Pope John Paul II.

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FRIDAY, MAY 2

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – The day marks the 14th year since Al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. special forces raid, ending a near decade-long worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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SATURDAY, MAY 3

GLOBAL - World Press Freedom Day.

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SUNDAY, MAY 4

ROMANIA - Romanian Presidency Election.

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TUESDAY, MAY 6

GLOBAL - World Asthma Day.

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MONDAY, MAY 7

WARSAW – EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich. (to May 8)

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THURSDAY, MAY 8

GLOBAL - World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.

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FRIDAY, MAY 9

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to hold talks in Moscow

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SUNDAY, MAY 11

ALBANIA - Albanian Parliament Election.

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MONDAY, MAY 12

GLOBAL - International Nurse's Day.

BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.

WARSAW – EU Informal meeting of energy ministers. (To May 13)

PHILIPPINES - Philippine Senate Election.

PHILIPPINES - Philippine House of Representatives Election.

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TUESDAY, MAY 13

BASEL, Switzerland - 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. (To May 17)

BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.

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THURSDAY, MAY 15

GLOBAL - U.N. International Day of Families.

JEJU, Republic of Korea – APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting. (To May 16)

BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting.

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FRIDAY, MAY 16

LISBON – 13th Anniversary of 78-billion-euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders.

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SATURDAY, MAY 17

GLOBAL - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.

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SUNDAY, MAY 18

GLOBAL - International Museum Day.

PORTUGAL - Portuguese Assembly of the Republic Election

POLAND - Polish Presidency Election

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MONDAY, MAY 19

LONDON - EU-UK summit

LONDON - European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen visits London for a summit on closer post-Brexit cooperation with Britain.

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TUESDAY, MAY 20

BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council and Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting

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THURSDAY, MAY 22

GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity.

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SUNDAY, MAY 25

SURINAME - Surinamese National Assembly Election

VENEZUELA - Venezuelan National Assembly Election

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MONDAY, MAY 26

BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) Meeting.

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TUESDAY, MAY 27

BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.

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SATURDAY, MAY 31

GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day.

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