Today: Emergency meeting of OPEC Economic Commission. Leaders of 12 African countries in Kampala. Chinese president makes speech on China-Taiwan relations. EU-Russia Co-operation Council meets in Brussels. Slovakian president in US. EU General Affairs Council. Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly.
Tomorrow: Clinton's State of the Union address. Russian foreign minister visits Spain. World Bank releases Poverty Reduction and the World Bank report.
Wednesday: Portuguese PM begins central European trip in Austria. European Parliament sits in Brussels. EU-Italy meeting in Brussels.
Thursday: Presidential election in Slovakia. EU Justice and Home Affairs Council in Birmingham. EU economic affairs commissioner visits Switzerland. Annual meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos.
Saturday: Venice Commission and South African Constitutional Court hold conference in Cape Town.
Sunday: Technical evaluation meetings concerning UN weapons inspections in Iraq begin. Parliamentary and presidential elections in Costa Rica.
Ireland
Today: Andrews launches Amsterdam Treaty White Paper.
Tuesday: Democratic Left publishes bill on asylum seekers.
Wednesday: Joint Oireachtas Committees on European and Foreign Affairs meet.
Friday: Three-day VSI "Voices from the South" film festival at the IFC, Dublin, begins. Saturday's events include a workshop on "The Global Economy - a fair deal for the world's workers?" with international speakers, 2.30 p.m. Saturday: Christian Concern for Freedom of Conscience march to Mexican embassy in solidarity with persecuted evangelists: from AIB Bank Centre, Ballsbridge, at 3 p.m.
Irish events should be received by David Shanks, For- eign Desk, on the Friday before publication