Ban Ki-moon
East Timor trip
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits East Timor to meet leaders including Foreign Minister Zacarias da Costa. (East Timor Foreign Ministry)
Bridge
Thailand-Malaysia link opens
The second bridge linking Thailand's Narathiwat and Malaysia's Kelantan to be officially opened by Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. (Bernama)
Bernard Kouchner
Donors conference
A Middle East donors' conference will take place in Paris. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said his aim is to collect funds to establish a Palestinian state. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov has said international Quartet will hold ministerial meeting on sidelines. (AFP)
Kim Jang-soo
Defence ministers meet
South Korean Defence Minister Kim Jang-soo visits France to meet counterpart Herve Morin. (Yonhap)
Abdullah Gul
State visit
Turkish President Abdullah Gul visits Kazakhstan. (Anatolia)
Missile experts
Budapest talking shop
US and Russian missile policy experts meet in Budapest. The US State Department has said talks will cover "proposals for US-Russia missile defence cooperation as well as radar cooperation to jointly monitor ballistic missile threats launched out of Middle East". (BBC Monitoring)
Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi
Madrid meeting
Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi visits Spain. He will conduct a private tour of Andalucía, then hold meetings with King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Madrid. (Efe)
Sergey Lavrov
Talking territory
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Riga to exchange ratification documents on the countries' agreement on state borders. (Interfax)
Iranian flag
Expert level talks
US and Iranian officials are set to hold new round of talks on Iraq's security at expert level. (Al-Sharqiyah TV)
Pilgrim
Final days of Hajj
Final three days of Hajj, Muslim annual holy pilgrimage, in Mecca. (Regional sources)
IAEA
Egypt trip
The IAEA delegation visits Egypt to discuss the peaceful use of nuclear energy following Egyptian announcement of nuclear energy plant plans. (MENA)
Pakistan flag
Tehran meeting
After failing to give final touches to the draft of Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline, the countries will hold another meeting on the project in Tehran next week. (Daily Times)
Wu Dawei
Korea trip
China's Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei will visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to discuss the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
Costas Karamanlis
Official visit
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will pay an official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (ANA)
