BBC Monitoring Weekly Prospects for 18-27 February 2005.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

EUROPE

14-18

HUNGARY: International Labour Organization's (ILO) seventh regional conference in Budapest; co-sponsored by ILO, Hungary and Luxembourg; examines challenges of economic transformation and globalization in Europe and Central Asia (regional sources)

15-19

TURKEY: Chief of Romanian Ground Forces General Staff Sorin Ioan visits; holds talks with counterpart Gen Yasar Buyukanit on ways to increase their troops' inter-operability, reform and modernization (Romanian news agency Rompres)

16-18

UK/INDIA: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visiting; meets External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh, Home Minister Shivraj Patil on 18th (Indian news agency PTI)

16-19

UNITED KINGDOM: International Olympic Committee (IOC) visits London, one of the cities hoping to hold 2012 Summer Olympics (Regional sources)

16-19

CZECH/JORDAN: Czech President Vaclav Klaus visiting; goes on to Saudi Arabia (Czech news agency CTK)

16-21

AUSTRIA/INDIA: Austrian President Heinz Fischer pays state visit, first-ever visit by an Austrian president to India (Indian news agency PTI)

17-18

POLAND: …