Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be confronted in person by Tristane Banon, a French woman who has accused him of attempted rape.
Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, and Tristane Banon, a writer, will be jointly questioned so that French police can compare both their respective versions of events. The questioning is intended to help prosecutors decide whether or not to open a judicial investigation into the case.
Banon filed the complaint in July, claiming that Strauss-Kahn had tried to rape her during an interview for a book she was writing. Banon said that she was looking forward to the face-to-face meeting, to see if he could "look me straight in my eyes" and say that that she was "imagining things".
Strauss-Kahn has told French police that he did indeed make "advances" to her, but that he ceased having been rebuffed.
The meeting is likely to be in Paris next week. It will be the first time the pair have met since the alleged attack in 2003.