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Heads of state meet
EU heads of state and government summit in Brussels (EU website).
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China-Taiwan Talks
Formal talks between China and Taiwan resume in Beijing for first time in ten years. This follows the inauguration on May 20 of Kuomintang's Ma Ying-jeou as president of Taiwan and talks in Beijing on May 28 between Kuomintang chairman Wu Poh-hsiung and Chinese President Hu Jintao (Taiwanese Central News Agency).
Kevin Rudd
Rudd Visit
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visits Indonesia for talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The meeting is expected to focus on free-trade talks and defence and security (Regional sources).
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
China Tour
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits China. He will travel to Chongqing, one of the areas hit by the May 12 earthquake (Chinese Foreign Ministry website, German newspaper Die Welt).
Heinz Fischer
Business trip
Austrian President Heinz Fischer visits Turkey accompanied by a business delegation. He is expected to hold talks with counterpart Abdullah Gul and attend the Turkish-Austrian Business Council meeting in the central province of Kayseri (Turkish news agency Anatolia).
Xi Jinping
First outing
Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping visits North Korea for talks on topics including Pyongyang's nuclear programme. The visit is Jinping's first foreign trip since his appointment in March (Chinese news agency Xinhua).
Javier Solana
EU incentives
EU foreign-policy chief Javier Solana visits Iran to present package of incentives for Tehran to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme(Regional sources).
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
NATO visit
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer tours Ukraine, taking in Kiev, Dnipropetrivsk, Lviv and Kharkiv (Ukrainian news agency UNIAN).
Angela Merkel
Germany Ukraine Relations
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Ukraine (Ukrainian news agency UNIAN)
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Future of Cyprus
Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyianni visits Cyprus meeting with counterpart Markos Kiprianou and President Dhimitrios Khristofias. Both foreign ministers are expected to give speeches on "the European future of a reunified Cyprus" (Greek Cypriot news agency CNA).
George Bush
Long goodbye?
Having already visited Germany and Slovenia, US President George Bush continues his tour of Europe, moving on to France and then the United Kingdom.
Condolezza Rice
Three-way talks
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Israel and West Bank in another effort to give impetus to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. She holds a three-way meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmad Quray (Regional sources).
Francois Fillon
Nuclear deal
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon visits Algeria to sign a framework agreement on cooperation in nuclear power (French news agency AFP).
Sergey Stanishev
US visit
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev visits Washington to meet with US Prsident George W. Bush. Talks will focus on cooperation in defence, security, economy and investment (Bulgarian national news agency BTA).
Nicolas Sarkozy
Visegrad Four
Prime ministers of the Visegrad Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) meet in the Czech Republic. French President Nicolas Sarkozy will also be attending. France assumes EU's rotating presidency in second half of 2008, followed by Czech Republic in first half of 2009 (Czech news agency CTK).
