June 30 morning preview

MOSCOW

* Ukraine's Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Raisa Bohatyreva will meet with Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov (10.45 a.m., ul. Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 26, tel.: 692-18-77, 692-75-25) and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev (12.45 p.m., President Hotel, ul. Bolshaya Yakimanka, 24, fax: (495)-606-41-62, e-mail: sokolov_av@gov.ru)

* Brunei's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Prince Mohamed Bolkiah will pay a visit (until July 5). He is scheduled to meet with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss trade and economic cooperation

* Russian Central Election Commission will convene to approve a plan for the second half of 2009 (10.00 a.m., Bolshoy Cherkassky Pereulok, 9, tel.: (495) 606-13-25, 606-70-76, e-mail: zapros@cikrf.ru)

* RIA Novosti will host a news conference by Russian migration officials, Are migrants a threat to Russia? (Noon, Zubovsky Bulvar, 4, tel.: (495) 645-65-24, 645-64-72)

* The Presidium of the Russian Supreme Arbitration Court will convene

* Norilsk Nickel will hold an annual shareholders' meeting (3.00 p.m., President Hotel, ul. Bolshaya Yakimanka, 24)

VELIKY NOVGOROD, northwest Russia

* Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will pay a visit

* A court will continue hearings on the 2007 bomb attack that left a crater in the tracks of the country's busiest rail line, linking Moscow and St. Petersburg and causing the Nevsky Express high-speed train to derail

BAIKONUR

* The Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. Sirius FM5 satellite will be launched

DOHA, Qatar

* A ministerial meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) will be held

TOKYO

* UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will pay a visit to meet Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso

NEW YORK

* A court will hear the General Motors bankruptcy case

* The UN Security Council will hold a session to discuss situation in Afghanistan and the UN mission in the country

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