21.   Pakistan and Denmark signed an accord Friday to strengthen bilateral economic ties, the Danish foreign ministry announced.

22.   Ousted Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani is due to arrive here on Monday to hold talks with Iranian officials, the foreign ministry announced.

23.   Sweden Friday ordered out an employee of the Russian trade delegation in Stockholm whom it suspected of espionage, the justice ministry announced.

24.   The Chinese government has ordered six days of official mourning for patriarch Deng Xiaoping, the foreign ministry announced Thursday.

25.   The French consulate in Guangzhou, shut down by Beijing after Paris sold warplanes to Taiwan, will reopen in April, the foreign ministry announced here on Tuesday.