Today: EU Agriculture Council meets in Brussels. ACP ministerial meeting in Brussels. Algerian foreign minister addresses UN General Assembly. Yugoslavian parliament holds emergency session on Kosovo. UN Secretary-General Annan meets Iraqi deputy PM in New York. UN Security Council meets. Meeting of Duma commission investigating impeachment charges against Yeltsin. Former mayor of Taba, in Rwanda, appears before hearing at international criminal tribunal in Arusha. Officials from South Korea, China, Japan and US meet in New York. NATO Secretary-General begins tour of Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Tomorrow: Spanish PM meets leader of Basque National Party. Sudanese foreign minister addresses UN General Assembly. South Korean strike begins. Vaclav Havel visits European Commission.
Wednesday: Slovenian PM and Belarus foreign minister address UN General Assembly. President of Moldova meets leader of breakaway Dnestr region. Algerian government meets representatives of opposition parties. European Commission negotiations with ACP countries. Bulgarian president visits Netherlands. Vietnamese foreign minister visits US. EU agriculture commissioner visits Slovenia.
Thursday: Jordanian foreign minister addresses UN General Assembly. Campaign begins for mayoral election in Bucharest. Greek defence minister visit Cyprus. Senior officials from six-nation Contact Group meet in London. Demonstrations in Nigeria. EU Transport Council meets in Luxembourg.
Friday: President of Ecuador and Albanian PM address UN General Assembly. Pope John Paul II visits Croatia.
Saturday: Parliamentary election in Australia. G7 finance ministers meet in Washington. Day of German Unity. Parliamentary election in Latvia. EU industry council meets in Klagenfurt, Austria.
Sunday: Second day of parliamentary election in Latvia.
Ireland
Wednesday: Political director of WEU, Alyson Bailes, addresses Institute of European Affairs seminar on "The Future European Security Architecture: Ireland's Choices."
Benefit for Genetic Concern - "genet-EEK! Beat the Biohazard! - at the Red Box, Harcourt Street, Dublin from 8 p.m. to 2.30 a.m. ila People's Liberal Judean Front.
Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.