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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events----------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, AUGUST 13
- CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sis meets Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, the head of Yemen's Internationally Recognized Government.
- LOS ANGELES, United States - Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen makes a visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, during transit stop on trip to South America - 2030 GMT.
GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Bosnia-Herzegovina's Prime Minister, Denis Zvizdic, in Berlin - 1145 GMT.
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 (to Aug. 27).
PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Third Senior Officials Meeting and Related Meetings (to Aug. 20). EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug. 27).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 14PAKISTAN – 71st anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule.
LEBANON - Hezbollah marks 12th anniversary of its "divine victory" - - the end of its war with Israel.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Nigerian President Mahamadou Issoufou - 1600 GMT.
JAPAN – 73rd anniversary of country's surrender in World War Two.
INDIA – 71st anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule.
LIECHTENSTEIN - 212th Anniversary of Independence.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 17BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dusko Markovic - 1000 GMT.
BEIJING - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad visits China. TASHKENT - The presidents of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Emomali Rahmon and Shavkat Mirziyoyev, will visit the "Made in Tajikistan" industry exhibition in Tashkent.
TRALEE, Ireland - 2018 Rose of Tralee International Festival (to Aug. 21).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 19GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day.
MOSCOW – 26th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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- BEIJING - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad wil visit China.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 21SYRIA – 5th anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighborhoods on the edge of Damascus.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22MOSCOW - Finnish President Sauli Niinisto will pay a visit to Russia.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 23BALTIC WAY – 29th 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.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 24POLAND - Poland marks the 29th anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989.
UKRAINE – 27th Anniversary of Independence.
WASHINGTON – 206th anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 25DUBLIN - Pope Francis meets Irish President Michael Higgins at the start of his two-day visit to Ireland (to Aug. 26).
URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day.
PARIS – 74th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 26SINGAPORE - 50th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting & Related Meetings 6th RCEP Ministerial Meeting (to Sept. 2). THAILAND - Special Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM)-(to Aug. 31).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 27WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Donald Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta confer at the White House.
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- HELSINKI - The French President Emmanuel Macron will make an official visit to Finland and meet his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto as well as Prime Minister Juha Sipila (to Aug. 30).
- SINGAPORE - The 50th ASEAN Economic Ministers and related meetings take place in Singapore (to Sept. 2).
VIENNA - Informal meeting of defence ministers meeting (to Aug. 30).
VENICE, Italy – 2018 Venice International Film Festival (to Sept. 8).
COPENHAGEN - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Denmark.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 30VIENNA - Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers (to Aug. 31).
ABUJA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pays a state visit to Nigeria (to Aug. 31).
COPENHAGEN - World Food Summit (to Aug. 31).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1MOSCOW - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Russia.
MAURITANIA - Mauritanian National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2RWANDA - Rwandan Chamber of Deputies election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9SWEDEN - Swedish Parliament election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10VIENNA – United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (to Sept. 14).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23SWITZERLAND - Referendum election.
MALDIVES - President election.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28BERLIN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a state visit to Germany (to Sept. 29)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29NEW YORK - Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will visit New York to participate in the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (to Oct. 2).
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