Diplomatic traffic
Foreign visitors in Washington this week include:
Today
• John Robertson, a member of the British Parliament and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Nigeria. He discusses British support for democracy and development in Nigeria at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
• Mihaly Bayer, Hungary”s newly appointed ambassador for the development of the European gas-pipeline project, Nabucco, a rival to a Russian-led project. He will meet with administration officials and members of Congress.
• Nino Burjanadze, speaker of the parliament of the Republic of Georgia, who holds a 10 a.m. news conference at the National Press Club to discuss to discuss tensions between her country and Russia, which has given diplomatic recognition to separatist movements in Georgia.
Tomorrow
• President Martin Torrijos of Panama, who meets President Bush.
• Ambassador Tariq Fatemi, senior foreign-policy adviser to Nawaz Sharif, chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party. He discusses domestic and foreign-policy challenges of the new coalition government in a briefing at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, and Wesley Charles and Dr. Lesley Michaud of World Vision Haiti. They attend the annual forum of InterAction, a worldwide humanitarian organization.
• Sheik Marouf Rahal, a Lebanese Shi’ite Shariah judge, who participates in a panel discussion of the political crisis in Lebanon hosted by the American Islamic Congress at noon in Room 121 of the Cannon House Office Building.
• Philippe Sands of University College of London, who addresses the New America Foundation on legal issues stemming from the war on Islamic terrorism.
Wednesday
• Kodjo Djissenou, executive director of La Conscience youth and pro-democracy organization in Lome, Togo. He will discuss elections and human rights in his West African nation in a briefing at the National Endowment for Democracy.
• Ahmad El Assaad, founder and chairman of the Lebanese Option Gathering, a new Shi’ite political party dedicated to nonviolence. He addresses the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Thursday
• Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, founder and chief executive officer of Uganda’s Conservation Through Public Health; Kuntai Karmushu, coordinator for health and conservation programs of Kenya’s Il Ngwesi Group Ranch; and Emmanuel Mtiti, program director of the Greater Gombe Ecosystem Program of the Jane Goodall Institute in Kenya. They discuss population and environmental issues in East Africa at a forum sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
• Zhou Dadi, an adviser to the Chinese government on climate issues and director of the Beijing-based Energy and Climate Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He joins a panel discussion on climate issues at Carnegie headquarters.
• A delegation of professors from Canadian universities with Stephen Brooks of the University of Waterloo, B. Timothy Heinmiller of Brock University, Carolyn Jones of Ryerson University, Mark Sproule-Jones of McMaster University, Philippe LePrestre of Laval University, Ian Rowlands of the University of Waterloo and Deborah L. VanNijnatten of Wilfrid Laurier University. They address a two-day conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on U.S.-Canada issues arising from the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.
Friday
• Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of the board of directors of India’s Infosys Technologies Limited, who addresses the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
• Call Embassy Row at 202/636-3297, fax 202/832-7278 or e-mail jmorrison @washingtontimes.com.
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