Wen Jiabao, China's second most powerful leader, will next week lead a delegation of 200 to a trade summit with six South Pacific nations, in an unprecedented visit.

And the clearest winner, for the moment, appears to be Hafez al-Assad - sitting pretty in Damascus, receiving an unprecedented visit by the foreign ministers of the world's most powerful nations.

Albumarak had begged to be excused from the official welcome party, but she was unable to resist joining the crowd which gathered to witness this unprecedented visit.

D "My queen, are you responsible for the unprecedented visit of all these Winds to our humble monastery?"

And Mr. Alia also sought out today's unprecedented visit by the U.N. Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar.

Kirk tried to understand what that would have to do with Kabreigny's unprecedented visit.

On the one hand, the Pope made an unprecedented visit to a synagogue in 1986, embracing Jews as "our elder brothers."

In early August more than 61,000 South Korean citizens, many of whom had relatives in North Korea, applied for permission to make an unprecedented visit to the North.

In February 1972, US President Richard Nixon made an unprecedented eight-day visit to the People's Republic of China and met with Mao Zedong.

Mr. Katsav's handshakes became the talk of Israel, where the pope had made an unprecedented visit in 2000, before the second intifada broke out.