BBC Monitoring Weekly Prospects for 18 - 29 Jun 2003.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

MIDDLE EAST & N Africa

-18

EGYPT: Arab conference to prepare for world summit of information and communication coinciding with the seventh ordinary session of the Arab League's assembly for communication and information (Yemeni news agency Saba web site)

-19

ALGERIA: International trade fair continues (Algerian news agency APS)

-19

IRAN: Uzbek President Islam Karimov holds talks with Iranian President Khatami and Afghan President Karzai in Tehran; discussing the construction of a road to link Uzbekistan to the Gulf (Uzbek UzReport.com web site)

20

JORDAN: Arab League Secretary-General Amr Musa to discuss Mideast with Jordanian officials (Egyptian news agency MENA)

20

ISRAEL/WEST BANK AND GAZA: US Secretary of State Colin Powell visits for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, before going to Ramallah for talks with the Palestinians (Israel radio Voice of Israel)

20-22

EGYPT: European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy visits for talks with Foreign Trade Minister Yusuf Butrus Ghali on Egypt's agricultural and industrial exports to the EU and economic repercussions of Iraq war (Egyptian news agency MENA)

21

EGYPT: Trial continues in the case of the Al-Tahrir Party; 26 defendants are charged with …