8.30am The President receives Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Situation, on a courtesy call at San Anton Palace.

9.30am The President receives Christos Stylianides, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, on a courtesy call at San Anton Palace.

11am The President delivers the opening speech at the 33rd Session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly at Intercontinental Malta, St Julian’s.

4pm The President departs Malta for Brussels where she has been invited to deliver a keynote speech at a meeting on ‘Maternal Health: Refugees and other Vulnerable Women’, organised by Women Political Leaders Global Forum at the European Parliament, and a speech at a meeting of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.

Tuesday

8.40am The President delivers her keynote speech at the meeting on ‘Maternal Health: Refugees and other Vulnerable Women’ at the European Parliament, Brussels.

8.50am The President participates in a round table discussion during the meeting on ‘Maternal Health: Refugees and other Vulnerable Women’.

9.40am The President attends a case-study session during the  meeting on ‘Maternal Health: Refugees and other Vulnerable Women’ in Brussels.

11.30am The President delivers a speech at a meeting of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality at the European Parliament, Brussels.

Wednesday

9.40am The President is presented with credentials by Brazilian Ambassador Antoni de Aguiar Patriota at the Palace, Valletta.

10.20am The President is presented with credentials by Colombian Ambassador Juan Mesa Zuleta at the Palace, Valletta.

11am The President is presented with credentials by Indonesian Ambassador Dra. R.A. Esti Andayani at the Palace, Valletta.

11.30am The President meets Prime Minister Joseph Muscat at the Palace, Valletta.

3.30pm The President receives Turkish Ambassador Reha Keskintepe on a courtesy call at San Anton Palace.

4.30pm The President receives Fr Joe Mallia, OFM, on a courtesy call and is presented with a copy of his publication In-Nisġa ta’ Ħajti at San Anton Palace.

7pm The President and Mr Preca host a reception in honour of the newly accredited ambassadors at San Anton Palace.

9pm The President attends a musical evening organised on the 50th anniversary of the Mnarja Philharmonic Society in Nadur.

Thursday

3pm The President meets representatives of Malta Libraries at San Anton Palace.

4pm The President meets Rev. Kim Hurst, Minister of St Andrew’s Scots Church, and Ms Mary Gaerty, director of Green Skip Services Ltd, at San Anton Palace.

7pm The President presides over the ceremony to award blood donors, organised by the National Blood Transfusion Service, with the collaboration of the Office of the President, at the Palace, Valletta.

Friday

11am The President presides over the ‘Pope John XXIII ceremony’, organised by The Peace Lab, at the Palace, Valletta.

5.30pm The President presides over the closing cere­mony of The President’s Secret Garden, orga­nised by The President’s Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society, at San Anton Palace.

7.15pm The President delivers a speech at a reception organised on the national day of the UK at San Pawl tat-Tarġa.

8.10pm The President delivers a speech at Caritas in Żebbuġ.

Saturday

11am The President presides over the State opening of Parliament in Valletta.

1pm The President receives representatives from the European Social Services Conference on a courtesy call at San Anton Palace.

8.30pm The President delivers a speech at a reception organised on the feast of St John the Baptist, patron saint of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, in Valletta.

Sunday

9am The President receives First Counsellor Dott.ssa Laura Calissoni Colnaghi and Counsellor Dott. Georg von Opel, accompanied by Prince Augusto Ruffo di Ca­labria, Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Malta, on a courtesy call at San Anton Palace.

10.30am The President unveils a monument on the 175th anniversary of the arrival of the statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Żurrieq.

7.55pm The President departs Malta for Rome, where she will be taking part in the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society.

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