The World This Week

Today: Middle East peace conference in London. Peace talks between Sudanese government and SPLA open in Nairobi

Today: Middle East peace conference in London. Peace talks between Sudanese government and SPLA open in Nairobi. Serb Nebojsa Ranisavlejevic in court in Montenegro accused of war crimes against Bosnians. UN committee against torture meeting in Geneva. Jospin in New Caledonia. European People's Party conference in Berlin. Russian foreign minister in France. WEU Parliamentary Assembly meets in Madrid. EU industry commissioner in South Africa. Finland's foreign minister in Washington. Conference of parties to Convention on Biological Diversity in Bratislava.

Tomorrow: Britain hosts donor conference for Afghanistan. National Summit on Africa in Atlanta, Georgia. Team of Austrian experts arrives in Slovakia to inspect Mochovce nuclear power plant. ACP council of ministers meets in Barbados.

Wednesday: Parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. Franco-German summit opens in Avignon. Japanese deputy foreign minister in Moscow. Lebanon holds Commemoration of Martyrs Day, marking country's dead from second World War. Minister for Planning in Palestinian National Authority speaks at House of Commons in London.

Thursday: Pakistani PM in Hong Kong. EU Industry Council in Brussels. EU budget and justice commissioners visit Norway. International donor conference on Bosnia-Herzegovina begins in Brussels. ACP-EU Council in Barbados. US Secretary of Commerce leads trade delegation to Africa.

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Friday: G8 Finance and Foreign Ministers in London. IMF director addresses Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Miguel Angel Rodriguez sworn in as new President of Costa Rica. Queen Noor of Jordan speaks in London. Walesa in Britain. EBRD holds business forum in Kiev.

Saturday: Contact Group deadline for Serbian government to enter into negotiations with ethnic Albanian Kosovans. Military parade marking Victory Day and 52nd anniversary of victory in Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Red Square, Moscow.

Sunday: EU Agriculture Ministers in Newcastle. Parliamentary elections in Hungary. General election in Paraguay. Peace, security and disarmament committee of Socialist International meets in Georgia. --(Future Events News Service)

Ireland

Tomorrow: EU Social Affairs Council meets in Belfast. European Movement public meetings on Amsterdam Treaty in Camden Street, Dublin and in Drogheda - also in Ballinteer on Wednesday and Mallow on Friday (Phone: 01-6714300).

Wednesday: Russian foreign minister visits Ireland.

Friday: Global march against child labour reaches Belfast. Saturday: Liberia/Sierra Leone Solidarity Group Interfaith Service in Oak Room, Mansion House, Dublin, 2.30 p.m. Irish events for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.