11.   Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres had been due to visit Asmara in November, but the trip was cancelled following the assassination of his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin.

12.   That visit has been cancelled following objections from China.

13.   The German race was cancelled following the accident.

14.   The Kremlin said Thursday that a trip to Chechnya by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin had been cancelled following pro-independence comments by a separatist leader there.