Pranab Mukherjee
India-China talks
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee visits China for talks with counterpart Yang Jiechi (Chinese news agency Xinhua).
Abdullah Gul
Turkey-Japan diplomacy
Turkish President Abdullah Gul visits Japan for talks with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (Japan's largest news agency Kyodo).
Kevin Rudd
Japan visit
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visits Japan for talks with counterpart Yasuo Fukuda (Japan's largest news agency Kyodo).
Yu Myung-hwan
Asian regional talks
Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura holds talks with South Korean and Chinese counterparts Yu Myung-hwan and Yang Jiechi on regional and international issues, including North Korea's nuclear programme (South Korean news agency Yonhap).
Jonas Gahr Store
Border talks
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store in Murmansk and Kirkines to discuss border cooperation (Russian news agency Interfax).
Jacques Chirac
Russia Day
President Dmitriy Medvedev presents Russian State Prizes for 2007 on Russia Day, a national holiday. Prize-winners include former French President Jacques Chirac, who is honoured for his humanitarian activities (Russian news agency ITAR-TASS).
Ivan Gasparovic
Slovakia Poland relations
Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic visits Poland for talks with counterpart Donald Tusk (Polish news agency PAP).
Yang Jiechi
Afghanistan funds
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi tours Europe, taking in Spain, Slovenia, Italy and the European Union headquarters in Brussels. He is expected to attend a Paris conference aimed at raising funds for Afghanistan (Chinese news agency Xinhua).
Nicolas Sarkozy
Franco-German talks
Informal summit between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Straubing, Bavaria. The meeting has been resheduled following after being postponed from March 3. The Elysee Palace attributed the postponement to "scheduling reasons", rather than any disagreement over France's Mediterranean Union project (French news agency AFP).
George Bush
European Tour
US President George Bush tours Europe, visiting Slovenia for the EU-US summit, before making stops in Germany, Italy, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom (BBC Monitoring).
Umaru Yar' Adua
Fund raiser?
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua visits France in search of closer bilateral relations and investment for Nigeria's electricity and rail networks (French news agency AFP).
Nouri al-Maliki
Maliki diplomacy
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visits Jordan for talks with King Abdallah and counterpart Nadir al-Dhahabi (Dubai-based Iraqi private Al-Sharqiyah TV).
