BBC Monitoring Weekly Prospects for 28 May - 11 June 2003.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

MIDDLE EAST

23-9

GULF: Egypt Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular and Egyptian Expatriates' Affairs ambassador Faruq Ghunaym on a Gulf tour. Will visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Qatar and Yemen. (Egyptian news agency MENA)

26-29

ISRAEL/JORDAN: Bulgarian foreign minister begins 3 day official visit to meet Israeli leaders, open Bulgarian-Jordanian business conference on joint participation in the reconstruction of Iraq (Bulgarian news agency BTA)

28

IRAN: Anniversary of election of the first Majlis (parliament) in 1980 after the Iranian revolution; taking place amidst talk of possible mass resignation of reformist Majlis deputies. MPs meet Ayatollah Khamene'i tomorrow, after 135 of them signed a letter warning him of threat to country's "territorial integrity" and urging him to remove obstacles to reform (Europe-based Iranian web site Gooya, Iranian Students News Agency ISNA and Iranian web site Baztab)

28

IRAN: Foreign ministers of 50 member states of the …