TODAY: Islamic unity conference opens in Tehran. Opposition parties meet in Jordan over elections boycott. Meeting between government and rebels in Colombia. Foreign affairs committee of European Parliament meets in Brussels. AfricanAmerican summit in Harare. Landless People's Movement in Brazil holds demonstration. TOMORROW: EU Agriculture Council in Brussels. EU General Affairs Council meets. EU tourism commissioner appears before European Parliament budgetary control committee. UN conference on disarmament in Sapporo, Japan. Public sector workers in Russia's Maritime Territory hold demonstration. German foreign minister speaks in Brussels. First sitting of newly elected parliament in Papua New Guinea. Trade delegation from mainland China visits Taiwan. Armenian president visits Ukraine. Israeli foreign minister in Brussels. New governor for Nizhniy Novgorod inaugurated.
WEDNESDAY: ASEAN foreign ministers meet in Kuala Lumpur. Milosevic sworn in as president of Yugoslavia. Donor conference on Bosnia in Brussels. Austrian chancellor visits European Commission. Swiss banks publish names of pre1945 dormant accounts. Peace talks between Georgian government and Abkhaz representatives in Geneva. Argentinian foreign minister in UK.
THURSDAY: EU budget council meets in Brussels. Conference in Okinawa promoting UN-led development. FRIDAY: Tajik National Reconciliation Commission meets. Russian defence council meets. SATURDAY: Syrian PM in Indonesia.
SUNDAY: National Airport in Washington unveils new terminal. APEC business telecoms meeting in Tokyo. - (Future Events News Service)
Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.