Today: ECOFIN Council in Brussels. International Court of Justice in The Hague opens provisional measures in case brought by Yugoslavia against 10 NATO countries. EU trade ministers in Berlin. UN civilian police advisers arrive in East Timor. Clinton meets representatives of gun lobby, clergy, entertainment on youth violence.
Tomorrow: WHO releases World Health Report 1999. EU Energy Council meets in Brussels. King Abdullah of Jordan in Germany. Former dictator of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier in Paris court over his residency in France.
Wednesday: Ministers from US and EU meet in Berlin to discuss trade and banana war. Chirac in Moscow.
Thursday: EU-China summit in Beijing. Iranian President begins tour of Middle East. Duma begins debating Yeltsin impeachment charges. Houses of Italian parliament meet for presidential election.
Friday: Mission to Mir launched.
Saturday: APEC finance ministers in Malaysia. Presidential election in Slovakia. New electoral bloc, "Russia's Patriots", launched.
Sunday: Copenhagen hosts Baltic Sea Conference. Spanish PM in Moscow.
Ireland
Today: First Kosovan refugees arrive in Ireland. The President receives International Women's Forum members.
Wednesday: European Movement public discussion on "Our Parliament and Our Voice in Europe" at 7 p.m., Dublin Castle Conference Centre, with EP candidates for Dublin. Thursday: Similar European Movement meeting at Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork, at 8 p.m. Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in Dublin to launch book on poverty in Ireland.
Friday: "Mock European Parliament" elections website for schools launched.