Today: Gore in Japan. Hong Kong chooses deputies for Beijing National People's Congress. South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission meets. EU energy ministers meet. Mexico-EU agreements signed. Hearings into 1996 crash of TWA800 flight begin in Baltimore. EU social affairs commissioner in Poland. EU general affairs council meets.
Tomorrow: "Big four" Russian leaders meet in Moscow. Representatives of five successor states to former Yugoslavia meet in Belgium. Albright in Ethiopia. Vaclav Havel addresses joint session of Czech parliament. Peace Implementation Council for Bosnia meets in Bonn.
Wednesday: WTO general council meets in Geneva. UNESCO peace education prize presented. Albright in Uganda. EU transport council meets. Russian parliamentarians in France.
Thursday: Albright in Rwanda. Gerry Adams in London. UNICEF annual report. Elections in Chile.
Friday: Trial of "Carlos" (the Jackal) begins in Paris. European Council summit in Luxembourg. Albright in Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
Saturday: Hungary signs initial membership documents with NATO. Governing Czech Civic Democratic Party holds emergency congress in Prague. Albright in South Africa. US Defence Secretary in Egypt.
- (Future Events News Service)
Ireland
Ireland Thursday: The President, Mrs McAleese, flies to Beirut on four-day visit to Irish UN troops in Lebanon. Friday: Release of Trocaire's 1997 Development Review. Saturday: Feile Failte, street spectacle, organised as part of European Year Against Racism, Temple Bar Square, Dublin, 6 p.m.
Irish events should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, by the Friday before publication