21.   The Russian Embassy in Canberra confirmed Kiriyenko was in Australia on private business and had no official engagements.

22.   The treatment did not keep him from official royal engagements.

23.   The treatment did not affect his diary of official royal engagements.

24.   Wahid denied Thursday that he was seriously ill after doctors ordered him to rest for several days and to cancel official engagements.

25.   For Barak it will be his first official engagements abroad since being sworn in on Wednesday.

26.   He added that the prime minister, who was due to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, was keeping to his official engagements during the day.

27.   He had been arrested the previous night as he tried to talk with the princess at an official engagement.

28.   He has not taken part in any official engagements since then and the regime has actively been preparing his succession.

29.   He was to be in Britain from Thursday, with no official engagements announced.

30.   It extended to some of her public duties too, with stories of how she would stump through an official engagement showing only the barest flicker of interest.