Today: UK Home Secretary delivers verdict on extradition case of Pinochet. Duma holds emergency session on Kosovo. Ministerial meeting between EU and ASEAN countries in Berlin. Council of Europe and OSCE meeting in Vienna. EU Transport Council meets in Brussels. European Parliament economic and monetary affairs committee in Brussels. Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly meets in Rome.
Tomorrow: European Commission releases spring economic forecast figures. Yeltsin may make state of the nation address.
Wednesday: Yemeni Vice-President visits China. Romanian Foreign Minister expected in China.
Thursday: People's Patriotic Union of Russia organises picketing of NATO member-states embassies in Moscow. Council of Europe's human rights group meets in Strasbourg. South African parliament hears case against ANC chairman of safety and security committee.
Friday: CIS summit in Moscow. Duma debates ratification of START-II strategic arms reduction treaty.
Saturday: India's Insat2E satellite launched by European Ariane Rocket.
Sunday: Local elections in Belarus.
Ireland
Today: Taoiseach opens European Movement national conference on "Examining Partnership for Peace", at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. (Phone: 01-6714300). Wednesday: ANC MP Dr Robert Davies addresses the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Development Co-operation as part of his lobbying on EU agricultural trade. Thursday: "Hungary and the EU" discussion with Imre Boros, Hungarian Minister without Portfolio, at the Institute of European Affairs at 11 a.m. Friday: AFrI and Pax Christi Good Friday Stations of the Cross, reflecting on Ireland's relationship to NATO's Partnership for Peace.
Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.