Today: EU-Japan summit in Tokyo. Council of Europe signs accord on prohibition of human cloning. Legal challenge to euro in Germany's supreme court. European Parliament begins session. EU Fisheries Council may meet in Brussels. Russian PM visits Turkmenistan. French foreign minister in Middle East. Border talks between Ecuador and Peru in Brasilia.
Tomorrow: European Parliament debates single currency implications for consumers. European Trade Union Confederation conference in Brussels on "Trade unions, EMU and the Amsterdam Treaty".
Wednesday: European Parliament hears presentation by British Foreign Secretary. Delegation from Patriotic Union of Kurdistan visits Ankara for talks to Turkish government. Council of Europe committee of ministers meets in Strasbourg. Canadian PM in Brazil.
Thursday: European Parliament debates drug laws. Indian and Pakistani PMs visit Bangladesh. Cook in US. Mandate for UN Transitional Administration in Eastern Slavonia ends. Commission charged with deciding what to do with remains of Russian Tzar Nikolas II presents findings to Yeltsin. EU trade commissioner in US.
Friday: European Parliament debates structural funds. Cook in Canada. Serbian parties meet in Belgrade to discuss Kosovo. Trial of Bosnian Croat Vlatko Kupreskic begins in The Hague. Presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania meet Clinton in Washington.
Saturday: Canadian PM in Argentina. Clinton questioned in camera over behaviour towards Paula Jones. Global March Against Child Labour begins in Manila. Peace talks between Papua New Guinea and Bougainville rebels resume in New Zealand.
Sunday: French Communists hold demonstration against single currency. UN special representative for human rights issues in Cambodia arrives in Phnom Penh. Albright expected to visit Palestinian self-rule areas. - (Future Events News Service)
Ireland Tomorrow: "Human Rights Without Borders": Galway One World Centre celebrates 50th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights with meeting in West County Hotel, Ennis, on immigration control.
Wednesday: Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Affairs discusses EMU, Amsterdam Treaty, and enlargement. Foreign affairs committee discusses Northern Ireland. Saturday: Rally at noon at the Department of Foreign Affairs "in solidarity with the Algerian people". (Phone Brendan Butler: 01.8405469)
Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.