Embassy Row

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.

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