BBC Monitoring News Diary for Sunday 4 June 2006.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Main stories at 0100 gmt

PERU: Second round runoff of presidential election; candidates are Union for Peru party's Ollanta Humala and Aprista party leader Alan Garcia Perez (Peruvian radio)

CZECH REPUBLIC: Watching developments after general election resulted in deadlock between centre-right and leftist parties (as available)

IRAQ: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expected to announce names of new interior and defence ministers in parliament; session adjourned from 29 May (Iraqi sources)

EGYPT: President Husni Mubarak meets Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Sharm al-Shaykh to discuss Olmert's plan to unilaterally redraw Israel's boundaries in the West Bank; possibly also to pave way for summit involving Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas (Egyptian news agency MENA)

Asia-Pacific

SINGAPORE: Shangri-La Dialogue meeting of defence ministers wraps up (Official website)

SOUTH KOREA: South and North Korea holding new round of economic …