Today: European Central Bank President speaks in Paris. EU General Affairs Council meets. US Assistant Secretary of State speaks in London. Summit of Gulf Co-operation Council in Abu Dhabi.
Tomorrow: European Parliament and EU budget ministers meet. CIS leaders meet in Moscow. Australian Independent Queensland MP Peter Wellington appears in court on 47 charges of child sex offences. Annan in Paris. UNICEF releases annual "State of the World's Children" report. Human rights defenders' summit in Paris. NATO foreign ministers meet in Brussels. Summit on Democratic Republic of Congo in Lusaka. World Women's and Ecological conference in Helsinki.
Wednesday: Groups opposed to Arafat's leadership hold conference. Ukraine-NATO meeting at foreign ministerial level in Brussels. MERCOSUR summit in Rio de Janeiro. Syrian-Iranian joint committee meets in Damascus.
Thursday: Nobel Day. Belgian parliament votes on proposal to deny funding to racist parties. Former Zimbabwe president Canaan Banana sentenced for sodomy. 50th anniversary of universal declaration of human rights. ASEAN informal summit in Manila.
Friday: European Council summit opens in Vienna. Provisional date for initial hearing of Pinochet extradition case. SATURDAY: Clinton travels to Middle East. SUNDAY: Second round voting in general election in Central African Republic. Referendum in Puerto Rico on relations with US. NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council meeting.
Ireland
Today: European of the Year Award. Meeting at Australian embassy, Wilton Terrace, Dublin, on anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor: 6.30 to 7.30 p.m. "The Euro and You" meetings at 8 p.m. in Carlow (Seven Oaks Hotel) and Tralee (Institute of Technology), organised by the European Movement.
Tomorrow: Commonwealth Secretary General begins visit to Dublin. President McAleese opens Galway One World Centre seminar, "Debt - An Obstacle to Development".
Wednesday: Oireachtas foreign affairs and European affairs committees meet.
Thursday: European Movement meetings at 8 p.m. in Imperial Hotels in Dundalk and in Cork. Oireachtas committee on human rights meets.
Irish events should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.