Today: Clinton addresses national Palestinian conference. ASEAN summit begins in Hanoi. European Parliament meets in Strasbourg.
EU Agriculture Council meets in Brussels. German foreign minister Joscha Fischer begins visits to Athens, The Hague, Brussels, Helsinki, Stockholm, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Dublin (on Thursday), Lisbon, Copenhagen, and Luxembourg. Presidential election in Guinea.
Summit meeting on Democratic Republic of Congo in Lusaka. Trial of five defendants in alleged Cuban spy ring begins in Miami.
Nato-Russia Permanent Joint Council meets. Justice ministers of France and Germany meet. Parliamentary organisation of Islamic countries meets in Tehran. International Contact Group conference on Bosnia opens in Madrid. Tanzanian president meet Japanese PM in Tokyo. Officials from NASA visit Ukraine.
Tomorrow: Endeavour returns to Earth. EU Energy Council meets. Russian State Duma begins discussion of START-II arms reduction treaty. General Confederation of Greek Labour holds 24-hour strike. Russian deputy first prime minister visits IMF in Washington. House of Lords debates original ruling over Gen Pinochet. Mexican foreign minister visits US. Japanese PM visits Vietnam. US defence secretary visits Germany.
Wednesday: New hearings into dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagornyy-Karabakh enclave in Paris. Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party presents economic proposals. European Parliament's Sakharov prize for freedom of thought presented.
Mexican Congress begins extraordinary session on budget. French PM visits Canada.
Thursday: Canada-EU summit in Canada. EU fisheries council meets in Brussels. OAU summit in Ouagadougou. President of Belarus visits Yeltsin in Moscow. Bundesbank council meets in Frankfurt.
Mandate of UN mission in Western Sahara expires. President of Croatia visits Russia. Chinese vice-president visits Vietnam. NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels.
Friday: EU-US summit. Current sitting of US Congress ends. Deadline under Wye Agreement for Israel to withdraw from further 5 per cent of West Bank. Chinese president addresses Communist Party meeting in Beijing. Third anniversary of Dayton Agreement.
Saturday: Jailed chairman of Malaysia's People's Coalition for Democracy appears before police in Kuala Lumpur. Results in auction shares in Russian gas monopoly Gazprom announced.
Sunday: Ramadan begins. Run-off election for city assembly of St Petersburg. New governor of Taiwan takes office. President of Turkmenistan holds question and answer session with Turkmen residents on national television. China and India resume talks on border dispute.
Thursday: Visit of German Foreign Minister to Dublin.
Irish events of a world news interest for this column must be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, by the Friday before Monday's publication.