21.   However, the duo have other engagements.

22.   In Paris they visited various cultural and educational establishments, and had engagements with French politicans, on a strictly non-political basis.

23.   Among those missing will be South African President Nelson Mandela, who says he has other engagements.

24.   Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji will be unable to attend the ceremony because he has other engagements, the report said.

25.   Earlier Ramos-Horta, the exiled spokesman of the anti-Indonesian resistance in East Timor, said he would not attend the mass because he had another engagement.