The World This Week

Today: IAEA general assembly. Sixth South Pacific Conference on Nature Conservation in Micronesia

Today: IAEA general assembly. Sixth South Pacific Conference on Nature Conservation in Micronesia. Egyptian foreign minister speaks at UN General Assembly. Yeltsin holds meeting over debts to nuclear power centre. Special cabinet meeting in Japan. Gorbachev speaks in Paris. Russian foreign minister in Canada.

Tomorrow: French Catholic Church makes statement about "attitude of bishops of France during the war". Three largest French trade unions hold strike. Tajikistan president addresses general assembly. IMF meets to review the Thai economy. Turkish PM in Germany. Representatives from UN and UNITA meet in Andulo. Deadline for applicants to Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. Ruling New Korea Party of South Korea meets for national convention. US AG Janet Reno in Ottawa. WEDNESDAY: Cuban and Syrian foreign ministers address UN General Assembly. Islamic Salvation Army declares cease-fire from today. Gibraltar opens representative office in Brussels. New chairman of US joint chiefs-of-staff takes office. European Parliament meets in Brussels. NATO defence ministers meet informally. Russian PM in The Hague.

Thursday: EU Treaty of Amsterdam signed. EU Telecoms Council meets. Pope in Brazil. Albanian PM speaks at general assembly. Israeli foreign minister meets Palestinian negotiator. Bundesbank council meets in Frankfurt. Chirac and Italian PM meet in Chambery.

Friday: Omani foreign minister addresses General Assembly. Indian PM presented with petition to save tigers by a 16year-old English girl. Czech Republic-NATO accession talks resume. Experts examining financial affairs of Italian PM Romano Prodi report findings to court. Defence ministers of eight south-east European countries and US meet in Sofia. EU internal market ministers meet in Luxembourg. Vanuatu PM in US.

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Saturday: Sotheby's New York auctions almost complete Tyrannosaurus fossil. Rally outside Cape Canaveral and in Darmstadt calling for cancellation of Cassini space mission. France and Germany begin military exercises in Gabon.

Sunday: Blair in Moscow. Run-off election for Serbian presidency. Presidential election in Montenegro. Israeli president Ezer Weizman in US. Tehrik-eInsaf party in Pakistan led by Imran Khan holds party congress. Indian PM in South Africa. All-African Conference of Churches in Addis Ababa. US Secretary of Commerce in China. - (Future Events News Service) 99143933

Ireland

Friday: Taoiseach, Minister for Finance and Chef de Cabinet of President Jacques Santer address European Movement national conference on "Agenda 2000 - Implications For Ireland" in the Davenport Hotel, Dublin. (phone (01) 671-4300)

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