Angela Merkel
Merkel meets Medvedev
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits; she meets Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev. (BBC)
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Turkmen president visits Uzbekistan
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow visits his Uzbek counterpart. (regional sources)
Yuliya Tymoshenko
EU Visit
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko attends Ukraine-EU cooperation council in Brussels. (Regional sources)
Jalal Talabani
Iraq Turkey talks
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani visits, one week after Turkish troops ended eight-day ground offensive against Kurdish rebel PKK in northern Iraq. (Turkish media)
Donald Tusk
Bush-Tusk Talks
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk meets US President George Bush at White House. (Regional sources)
Shimon Peres
Sarkozy meets Perez
Israeli President Shimon Peres visits France.
Umar al-Bashir
Sudan President in Middle East talks
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir visits the the United Arab Emirates.
Karim Masimov
Kazakh PM in Washinton
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov will visit the US, meeting Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The talks are to focus on plans to attract US investment in Kazakh infrastructure projects. (Russian media)
Thaksin Shinawatra
Return to London?
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will ask the country's Supreme Court's permission to go to the UK on March 13.
Kevin Rudd
Rebuilding ties
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pays a visit to Papua New Guinea. It is seen as an effort to rebuild ties strained during later years of John Howard's government.(Papua New Guinea newspaper The National)
Pervez Musharraf
Staying put
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is staying at home because of "fast-changing political developments", instead of attending the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Senegal. (Pakistani private broadcaster Dawn News)
Russian flag
Security council
Seventh meeting of Russian-French council for cooperation on security, attended by Defence Minister Herve Morin and Russian counterpart Anatoliy Serdyukov. (Russian news agency Interfax)
