Thursday
*Theodore Skylakakis, secretary-general for international economic relations and development cooperation in the Greek Foreign Ministry. He leads a delegation that includesJohn Coustas, president and chief executive officer of the Danaos Corp.; George Constantelis, managing director of Bristol-Myers Squibb in Greece, Malta and Cyprus; and Alexandros Manos, managing director of the Piraeus Bank in Athens. They meet with U.S. counterparts at a meeting of the Economic and Commercial Cooperation Commission.
*Bill Emmott, former editor of London’s Economist magazine, who addresses the Asia Society on the power struggle among China, India and Japan.
*Ali Ansari, director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, who addresses the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
*Eliza Musaeva, former director of Memorials Chechnya office; Magomed Mutsolgov, director of the Ingush Human Rights Organization in Russia’s North Caucasus region; and Gregory Shvedov, editor of the Russian Web publication “Caucasian Knot.” They testify before the congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe at 1 p.m. in Room B-318 in the Rayburn House Office Building.
*Call Embassy Row at 202/636-3297, fax 202/832-7278 or e-mail jmorrison @washingtontimes.com.

James Morrison joined the The Washington Times in 1983 as a local reporter covering Alexandria, Va. A year later, he was assigned to open a Times bureau in Canada. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Morrison was The Washington Times reporter in London, covering Britain, Western Europe and NATO issues. After returning to Washington, he served as an assistant foreign editor ...
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