Embassy Row

Meeting with Muslims

American Muslims offered condolences to British Ambassador David Manning and called the London bombings “barbaric crimes.”

Mr. Manning told them the bombings should not be linked to Islam, which he described as a religion of “peace, reconciliation and tolerance.”

Representatives of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations met with Mr. Manning on Friday at the British Embassy.

CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed signed the book of condolences and called the attacks “barbaric crimes that can never be justified of excused.”

Diplomatic traffic

Foreign visitors in Washington this week include:

Today

• Tarik Samarah, a Bosnian photographer whose pictures of Srebrenica, the scene of a Serbian massacre 10 years ago, will be displayed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum beginning at 2 p.m.

Tomorrow

• Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, who meets with President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and addresses the business council of the United States and Association of Southeast Asian Nations. On Wednesday, he meets Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Mr. Lee is accompanied by Foreign Minister George Yeo, Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean and Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

• Jorge Taiana, deputy minister for foreign affairs of Argentina. He addresses the Inter-American Dialogue on preparations for the Summit of the Americas in Argentina in November.

Wednesday

• Carlos Heredia, an adviser to the governor of the Mexican state of Michoacan and a former member of the Mexican Congress. He addresses the Inter-American Dialogue about next year’s presidential election in Mexico.

• Abdoulie Janneh, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations and director of the U.N. Development Program’s Regional Bureau for Africa, who discusses the status of democracy in Africa at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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