Embassy Row

Diplomatic traffic

Foreign visitors in Washington this week include:

Today

• President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania, who meets with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. He also meets with members of Congress and leaders of the local Baltic-American community. Tomorrow he holds a 10 a.m. press conference at the National Press Club.

• Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, who discusses democracy in the Western Hemisphere at a dinner sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership.

Tomorrow

• Vice President Eduardo Stein of Guatemala, who addresses the Inter-American Dialogue. He is accompanied by Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann.

• Peter Hain, Britain’s secretary of state for Northern Ireland.

• Salah al-Bandar, secretary-general of the London-based Gulf Center for Democratic Development, and Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. They participate in a panel discussion on political reforms in Bahrain at the American Enterprise Institute.

• Paulo Vieira da Cunha of the Brazilian Central Bank, who discusses Brazil’s economy in a forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

• Soli Ozel, a political science professor at Turkey’s Bilgi University, who participates in a panel discussion on developments in Turkey in a forum at the Brookings Institution.

Wednesday

• Erastus Mwencha, secretary-general of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa; Ajay Vashee, president of the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions; and Philip Kiriro, president of the East African Farmers’ Federation. They speak at a forum sponsored by the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Thursday

• President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, who addresses the Liberia Private Sector Investment Forum, hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa. Friday, she speaks at 11:30 a.m. at a luncheon at the National Press Club. She is accompanied by Richard Tolbert, chairman of the National Investment Commission; Antoinette Sayeh, minister of finance; Olubanke King-Akerele, minister of commerce; Eugene Shannon, minister of lands, mines and energy; Luseni Dunzo, acting minister of public works; Christopher Toe, minister of agriculture; and Jeremiah Sulunteh, minister of transportation.

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