The World this Week

Today: Animal feed experts meet in Brussels. EU consumers council meets in Brussels

Today: Animal feed experts meet in Brussels. EU consumers council meets in Brussels. Final status talks on Israeli-Palestinian conflict begin in Ramallah. Pope visits Georgia. Court near Auschwitz rules on attempts by local governor to plant crosses on grounds of former Nazi extermination camp. Argentine president-elect meets Chirac and Blair in Paris. Finnish president hosts meeting for presidents of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Cornerstone laid of controversial mosque near site of Church of the Annunciation. Socialist International Congress opens in Paris.

Tomorrow: EU external relations commissioner visits Washington. Opposition Alliance for Change stages demonstrations as Yugoslav parliament reopens. Indonesia's new president travels to Salt Lake City for eye treatment. Canadian PM visits Nigeria.

Wednesday: European Commissioner for enlargement visits Slovakia. Schroder hosts meeting with PMs of Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Slovenian foreign minister visits China. Protest by Brazil's Land-less People's Movement. OSCE visits Ingushetia. War crimes trial of former mayor begins at International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Annan in Japan.

Thursday: Foreign ministers from EU and Russia meet in Helsinki. EU development ministers meet in Brussels. NATO meeting in Amsterdam. Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect faces arraignment at Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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Friday: EU employment and social affairs council meets in Brussels. UNESCO general conference meets in Paris.

Saturday: Clinton arrives in Greece.

Sunday: Annan in China. Vietnamese council elections. Second round of Macedonian presidential election. Mohammed Obacha, son of late Nigerian dictator, goes on trial in Lagos.

Ireland

Today: "True Colours": start of fortnight of events on the inclusion of refugees, asylum-seekers and ethnic minorities, including Travellers, into Irish society. RIA lecture on treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in war and torture victims by Prof Gretty Mirdal of the University of Copenhagen. (Phone: 353.1.6762570) Thursday: Oireachtas committee on European affairs at 2 p.m.

Irish events should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.