DIARY - Political and General News Events From April 19

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Top economic events M/DIARY ----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** indicates new events ----------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 ** ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to hold joint news conference with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales after talks in Ankara. ** LISBON - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodrigues Parrilla meets Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva - 1100 GMT. ** PARIS - French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to hold talks with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki - 1300 GMT. ** OTTAWA - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel - 1400 GMT. ** WASHINGTON - IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde to moderate "Innovation, Technology and Jobs" discussion with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson in Washington - 1500 GMT. ** WASHINGTON - Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins, IMF Deputy Managing Director Tao Zhang, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Chairman Patrick Murck to discuss "FinTech and the Transformation of Financial Services" in Washington - 1700 GMT. ** THIMPHU – Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Bhutan (to April 20).

** WASHINGTON – Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will visit United States (to April 23).

** LONDON – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will visit the United Kingdom and speaks at Chatham House - 0830 GMT.(Final Day). HANOI - Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to visit Vietnam and meet Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, President Tran Dai Quang (Final Day). ANKARA/AMMAN/TEHRAN/CAPE TOWN - Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong will visit Turkey, Jordan, Iran and South Africa (to April 27). BEIJING – Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh will visit China (to April 22). TALLINN/LJUBLJANA/TIRANA/MOSCOW/ASTANA – Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli will visit Estonia, Slovenia, Albania, Russia and Kazakhstan (Final Day). NEW DELHI – Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari will visit India (to April 21). RIYADH/CAIRO/JERUSALEM/DOHA/DJIBOUTI – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will visit Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Qatar and Djibouti (to April 23). SUKHUMI – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Abkhazia (Final Day). OTTAWA – Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel will visit Canada (to April 20). TOKYO - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence holds economic talks with Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso (Final Day). NEW YORK, United States - Japan Finance Minister Taro Aso will speak at Columbia University event – 2230 GMT. MADRID - Spanish Minister of Economy Luis de Guindos, Bankinter CEO Maria Dolores Dancausa, Banco Sabadell CEO Jaime Guardiola, Banco Santander CEO Jose Antonio Alvarez to participate in XXIV Financial Conference organized by Deloitte - 0700 GMT. - - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 20 ** WASHINGTON - G20 Finance Ministers and central bank governors working dinner - 2345 GMT. ** LJUBLJANA - Birtish Brexit Minister David Davis will visit Slovenia and meet with Slovenian Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec. ** WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan will give an interview in IMF Spring meeting at Washington DC. ** WASHINGTON - Canadian Finance Minister William Morneau, IMF Deputy Managing Director David Lipton, UBS Chairman Axel Weber and former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan participate in "Global Economy on an Upswing: Can it Work for All?" panel in Washington - 1915 GMT. LONDON - European Parliament President Antonio Tajani will meet United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May. WASHINGTON – Italian Prime Minster Paolo Gentiloni will visit Washington and meet U.S President Donald Trump at the White House. WARSAW – European Commission chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will visit Poland OTTAWA – Italian Prime Minster Paolo Gentiloni will visit Canada and meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (to April 21). WASHINGTON - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble speaks at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – 1500 GMT. WASHINGTON - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim will hold press conference in Washington - 1245 GMT. JAKARTA - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Indonesia (to April 21). UNITED STATES - 7th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. - - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 21 ** WASHINGTON - G20 Finance Ministers and central bank governors to meet in Washington to discuss cooperation on financial and economic issues - 1400 GMT. ** TOKYO - Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak will visit to Japan to discuss energy issues. ** WASHINGTON - Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau to speak to Toronto Center Panel in Washington - 1600 GMT ** WASHINGTON - G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Washington (to April 22). NEW DELHI - The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini will visit India. OTTAWA – Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni – 0230 GMT. WASHINGTON - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is panelist at discussion "Financing for Peace: Innovations to Tackle Fragility" in Washington - 1500 GMT. WASHINGTON - 2017 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (to April 23). LONDON - Queen Elizabeth to celebrate her 91st birthday. PARIS – 56th anniversary of the first manned mission to space. - - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 22 ** WASHINGTON - IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin participate in "A Conversation on the U.S. Economy" in Washington - 2015 GMT. ** TEHRAN - Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili will visit Iran (to April 23).

VIENNA - Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern will visit Israel (to April 25). SYDNEY, Australia - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Australia (to April 23). GLOBAL - Earth Day. - - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 23 ** ATHENS - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to meet Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias to discuss cultural, economic ties. BERLIN – Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hannover FRANCE - Presidential Election. GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day. LONDON – 2017 London Marathon. - - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 24 BRASILIA – Spain Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to meet Brazil President Michel Temer. MOSCOW - High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini will visit Russia. GLOBAL - World Immunization Week 2017 (to April 30). - - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 25 ** MOSCOW – Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will visit Russia (to April 26).

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Australian Trade Minister Steve Ciobo will visit the United Arab Emirates. LUXEMBOURG - Meeting of General Affairs Council on cohesion. GLOBAL - World Malaria Day. - - - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 SEOUL - APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) 2 (to April 29). - - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, APRIL 27 ** MANILA - Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah will meet Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila. GENEVA, Switzerland - Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei will visit Geneva. WASHINGTON – Argentina President Mauricio Macri will visit Washington and meet U.S President Donald Trump. MOSCOW - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia (to April 28). - - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 28 NEW YORK, United States – Japan Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will visit New York. CAIRO - Pope Francis to visit Cairo and meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (to April 29). PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania - 19th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. - - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 29 LONDON – 6th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. - - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 30 NEW DELHI – President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit India (to May 1). TUESDAY, MAY 2 MOSCOW - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Moscow. - - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 4 ALGERIA - Algerian National People's Assembly Election. - - - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, MAY 6 NIUE - Niuean Assembly Election. - - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 7 FRANCE - Presidential Election. - - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 9 SOUTH KOREA - Presidential Election. - - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 11 BRUSSELS - European Union Trade Ministers meeting ROME - G7 Finance Ministers will meet in Southern Italy. MOSCOW - Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Moscow - - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, May 12 BARI, Italy - Finance leaders of the G7 Advanced Economies hold three days of talks in the Southern Italian city of Bari. - - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 14 BEIJING – Greece President Alexis Tsipras will visit China (to May 15). BEIJING - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Silk Road Economic Forum in Beijing (to May 15). - - - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 19 WARSAW – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Poland. - - - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 21 SARAJEVO - Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla will visit Bosnia-Herzegovina (to May 22). - - - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 22 BRUSSELS - Eurogroup Finance Ministers meeting (to May 23). JAKARTA - King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden will visit Indonesia (to May 24). - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 23

BRUSSELS - European Union Finance Ministers will meet in Brussels.

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