Diplomatic traffic
Foreign visitors in Washington this week include:
Today
• Gen. Edward Pietrzyk, Poland’s ambassador to Iraq, who addresses the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research on Poland’s decision to withdraw its military from Iraq in October.
Tomorrow
• A delegation of British Conservative members of the European Parliament with Christopher Heaton-Harris; Roger Helmer; Syed Kamall, spokesman for international trade; Neil Parish, chairman of the Agriculture Committee; and Geoffrey Van Orden, vice chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. They attend a Heritage Foundation forum on relations between the United States and the European Union.
• Kakha Bendukidze, director of the State Chancellery of Georgia, who addresses the Cato Institute on economic reforms in his country.
• Anahit Bayandour, co-chairman of the Armenian National Committee of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly and a former member of the Armenian parliament. She discusses Armenia’s presidential election in a briefing at the National Endowment for Democracy.
• Shahida Tulaganova, a documentary filmmaker from Uzbekistan, who testifies on human rights in Uzbekistan at a hearing of the congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe at 10 a.m. in Room B-318 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
Wednesday
• K.C. Chan, Hong Kong’s secretary for financial services and the treasury. He discusses Hong Kong and Chinese economic cooperation in a briefing at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Surin Pitsuwan, secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, who addresses the Council on Foreign Relations.
Thursday
• Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, chairman of the board of directors of the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association, which will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the group’s Washington office.
• Ibrahim El Houdaiby of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood; Abderazzak Makri of the Movement for the Society of Peace in Algeria; Merat Merean, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Turkish parliament and a founding member of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party; and Mohamed Yatim, deputy secretary-general of the Party of Justice and Development in Morocco. They debate whether the Turkish party is a role model for the Arab world in a forum sponsored by the Century Foundation and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
• Maura Conway of Ireland’s Dublin City University, who testifies on Internet hate crimes and hate propaganda and methods used to raise money for hate groups at a hearing of the congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe at 3 p.m. in Room 432 of the Russell Senate Office Building.
• Jorge Castaneda, Mexico’s foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, who discusses his new book, “Ex-Mex,” about Mexican immigration to the United States and his role in U.S.-Mexico negotiations on comprehensive immigration reform, in a briefing sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue and the Migration Policy Institute.
• Pavol Demes, director of the Bratislava, Slovakia, office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; and Ivan Vejvoda, a democratic opposition leader in the 1990s in Yugoslavia and now executive director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy at the Marshall Fund’s Belgrade, Serbia, office. They discuss the Serbian parliamentary elections in a briefing at the Marshall Fund’s Washington headquarters.
Friday
• Heraldo Munoz, Chile’s ambassador to the United Nations, who discusses his role in the U.N. debate over the Iraq war in a briefing at the Inter-American Dialogue.
• Call Embassy Row at 202/636-3297, fax 202/832-7278 or e-mail jmorrison @washingtontimes.com.
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