DIARY - Political and General News Events From May 21

Reuters will issue this diary daily at around 1000 GMT.

All times in GMT unless otherwise stated.

Items marked ** denote new or amended listings.

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MAY (UNDATED)

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif due to be sworn in as Prime Minister in the last week of May.

** BEIJING - SriLankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit China.

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TUESDAY, MAY 21

BRUSSELS - EU Catherine Ashton holds a round of talks with Serb Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

PARIS - British Prime Minister David Cameron meets French President Hollande.

SOFIA - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will convene a new parliament.

NEW DELHI - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will pay a three-day visit to India.

NEW DELHI - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is due to give a speech at a government think tank.

LJUBLJANA - Hungarian President Janos Ader visits Slovenia, meets his counterpart Borut Pahor.

BUDAPEST - Hungarian Economy Minister Mihaly Varga to speak at meeting of the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

VALPARAISO, Chile - Chile's President Sebastian Pinera offers his last State of the Nation address before ending his four year term in office with protests expected outside parliament.

** ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul meets Saudi Crown Prince and Defence Minister Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud.

** ATHENS - Greece Prime Minister Antonis Samaras meets President Karolos Papoulias.

** PRAGUE - Czech Prime Minsiter Petr Necas to deliver a speech at a conference on the future of the Czech pension system.

CALI, Colombia - Presidential Summit of Pacific Alliance (to May 23).

** ISTANBUL - Next round of talks between top-level Foreign Ministry officials from Turkey and Greece on longstanding territorial disputes to take place.

NEW YORK - The 17th Annual Webby Awards will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

JERUSALEM - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Israel and the Palstinian Territories for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22

** ANKARA - President of the European Council Herman Von Rompuy to visit Turkey.

** ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition to hold meeting to decide whether to attend U.S - and Russian-backed conference in Geneva on resolving Syrian war.

OTTAWA - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty appears before Senate committee.

KINSHASA, GOMA, KIGALI, ENTEBBE - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to visit Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to focus on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-racked eastern border region.

ADDIS ABADA - African Foreign Ministers meet ahead of African Union Summit.

ISLAMABAD - Chinese premier Li Keqiang visits Pakistan, a crucial strategic ally for China in the region, at the invitation of President Asif Ali Zardari. Both leaders are expected to hold talks followed by a news conference.

JERUSALEM - British Foreign Secretary William Hague meets Israeli leadership.

** ASTANA - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to preside at the Foreign Investors Council.

** AMMAN - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordan Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh will hold a joint news conference in Amman.

CAYMAN ISLANDS - Parliamentary election.

BRUSSELS - European Council.

GLOBAL - International Day for Biological Diversity.

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THURSDAY, MAY 23

ROME - Italy Prime Minister Enrico Letta, French Economy Minister Pierre Moscovici will speak at conference in Rome.

ISTANBUL - Syria's opposition coalition will meet to decide whether to participate in a U.S. and Russian-sponsored conference to try to end the Syrian civil war.

MOSCOW - Defence Minister of Russia Sergei Borisovich Ivanov holds conference on European security.

TOKYO - Singapore President Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, ADB President Takehiko Nakao and World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati, will discuss political and economic future of the region at a two-day international conference in Tokyo.

LONDON, England - Amnesty International launches its State of the World's Human Rights 2013 report.

PODGORICA - Summit of Southeastern Europe business and political leaders in Montenegro, including representatives of Telenor Srbija, Fiat, Gazprom's Serbian venture, European Investment Bank, EBRD, prime ministers of Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro. Slovenian, Croatian and Macedonian prime ministers to be confirmed.

NIJMEGEN, Netherlands - Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel receives an Honorary Doctorate from the Radboud University Nijmegen.

HAGUE - President of European Council Herman Van Rompuy will meet Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

WASHINGTON - Senate Environment Committee expected to vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy.

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FRIDAY, MAY 24

DEAD SEA, Jordan - World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2013 (to May 26).

FORT WORTH, TX - The 14th Van Cliburn International PianoCompetition, the most prestigious classical piano contest in the world (to June 9).

JUBA - Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti and Security and Intelligence Organ General Director Gen. Mohamed Atta will visit South Sudan.

** MUMBAI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to give a speech at the Silver Jubilee Fuction of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

LONDONDERRY, Ireland - Rotary Club of Londonderry Global Peace Forum (to May 26).

PARIS - Paris court to hear drunk driving case against French actor Gerard Depardieu.

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SATURDAY, MAY 25

BERLIN - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Berlin, holds talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at event of Christian Democratic Employees' Association - 1000 GMT.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - African Union summit in Addis Ababa. The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary celebration of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and a little more than a decade since the formation of the African Union, which seeks to promote "an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in global arena". Heads of State declared the year 2013 the Year of Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance and will gather in Addis Ababa.

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SUNDAY, MAY 26

EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Parliamentary election.

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MONDAY, MAY 27

BRUSSELS - Meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC).

TOKYO - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected visit to Japan (to May 30).

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TUESDAY, MAY 28

PARIS - Duchess of Cornwall Camilla will visit Paris.

NAROBI - First Somali Reconstruction and Investment Conference and Exhibition (to May 29).

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THURSDAY, MAY 30

DUBLIN - EU Informal Meeting of the Financial Services Committee.

VILNIUS - European Parliament President Martin Schulz to visit Lithuania.

BUDAPEST - Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban to speak at the National Interest in the Focus conference.

BRUSSELS - European Council meeting.

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FRIDAY, MAY 31

SINGAPORE - Defence Ministers from U.S. and Asia Pacific meet in IISS Asia Securtiy Summit. Prime Minist

er of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung will deliver the keynote Opening Dinner address at the Shangri-La Dialogue 2013.

GLOBAL - World No Tobacco Day.

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JUNE (UNDATED)

QATAR - Parlimentary elections.

LEBANON - Parliamentary elections.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 1

KATHMANDU - 11th anniversary of Nepal King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family assassinated by Crown Prince in royal family massacre.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 2

ROME - 152nd anniversary of the unification of Italy.

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MONDAY, JUNE 3

COPENHAGEN - 21st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (to June 7).

VIENNA - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting (to June 7).

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TUESDAY, JUNE 4

HONG KONG - Tens of thousands attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.

CHILE - 2nd anniversary of Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5

GLOBAL - World Environment Day.

SYDNEY - Sydney Film Festival (to June 16).

MYANMAR - World Economic Forum on East Asia 2013 (to June 7).

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THURSDAY, JUNE 6

ST. PETERSBURG - G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting (to June 7).

SEOUL - South Korea marks the 58th anniversary of Memorial Day.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 7

** CALIFORNIA - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping (to June 8).

ST. PETERSBURG - G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting (FINAL DAY).

SANTIAGO - 8th European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC) Summit (to June 8).

MONTREAL, Canada - Formula 1 Grand Prix Canada (to June 9). Link: http://www.formula1.com/races/calendar_preview.html

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SATURDAY, JUNE 8

CAIRO - Retrial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak expected to resume. Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib el-Adli, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison last June for failing to stop the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power in 2011.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 11

PANAMA CITY - The 65th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission and the associated meetings of its Scientific Committee and other sub-groups (to July 6).

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

LONDON - 2013 London Sukuk Summit.

GLOBAL - World Day Against Child Labour ILO .

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THURSDAY, JUNE 13

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Civil 20 Summit (to June 14).

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FRIDAY, JUNE 14

IRAN - Presidential elections.

GLOBAL - World Blood Donor Day.

GAZA - 6th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah.

ALANYA, Turkey - European Triathlon Championships 2013 (to June 16).

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SATURDAY, JUNE 15

PRISTINA - Kosovo marks 5th anniversary of its constitution.

GLOBAL - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD).

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MONDAY, JUNE 17

LONDON - G8 Summit.

PARIS - 50th Paris International Air Show (to June 23).

GLOBAL - United Nation's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 18

LONDON - G8 Summit (Final Day).

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Youth 20 Summit (to June 21).

BERLIN - U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Berlin and meet Chancellor Angela Merkel.

NAIROBI - 123rd Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - International Economic Forum (to June 21).

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THURSDAY, JUNE 20

GLOBAL - World Refugee Day.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Business 20 Summit (to June 21).

LUXEMBOURG - Eurogroup meeting.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 23

TUNISIA - Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

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MONDAY, JUNE 24

BERLIN - 65th anniversary of beginning of The Berlin Blockade. Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organise a massive airlift.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25

LOS ANGELES - Fourth death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - G20 Sherpas' Meeting (to July 26).

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26

MONGOLIA - Presidential elections.

GLOBAL - International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 27

BRUSSELS - European Council (to June 28).

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century (to June 29).