Embassy Row

DIPLOMATIC TRAFFIC

Foreign visitors in Washington this week include:

Monday

• Vaclav Bartuska, the Czech Republic’s ambassador at large for energy security, who addresses the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

• Noboru Hatakeyama, chairman of the Japan Economic Foundation; Masakazu Toyoda, chairman of Japan’s Institute of Energy Economies; and Yoshihiro Watanabe, an adviser to the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. They participate in a symposium on U.S.-Japanese trade at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

• Nobuhiro Horii of Japan’s Kyushu University; Takahiko Onozuka, a special adviser at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation; and Daojiong Zha of China’s Renmin University. They discuss cooperation among the United States, Japan and China in international energy markets at the Brookings Institution.

• Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor of Nicaragua’s newsweekly Confidential, who discusses threats to democracy in Nicaragua in a briefing at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

• Francois Vaillancourt of the University of Montreal, who discusses issues facing Canada’s French-speaking Quebec province in a briefing at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Tuesday

• Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile. She is honored by the Washington Office on Latin America.

• Alexsey Bogaturov and Veniamin Popov of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations; Vladimir Lukin, a former Russian ambassador to the United States and now a member of the Russian parliament; Denis Makarov of Moscow’s State Pedagogical University; Igor Nagdasev, president of the Russian Center for Citizenship Education in St. Petersburg; Vitaly Naumkin of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Evgeny Velikhov, secretary of the Public Chamber, which monitors the Russian parliament; and Irina Zvyagelskaya, vice president of Moscow’s International Center for Strategic and Political Studies. They discuss U.S.-Russian relations in a forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Wednesday

• Andrew Shearer, director of studies at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, who discusses China’s growing economic and political power in a briefing at the Hudson Institute.

Thursday

• Alvaro Herrero of Argentina’s Association for Civil Rights and Cesar Ricaurte of Ecuador’s Andean Foundation for Media Training and Studies. They address a forum sponsored by the Center for International Media Assistance, the National Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House.

• Markus Loning, German commissioner for human rights, and Saba Vasefi, an Iranian human rights activist. They address a forum hosted by the National Security Network, the Heinrich Boll Foundation of North America and the Century Foundation.

• Adekeye Adebajo, executive director of the Center for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa. He discusses his book, “The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War,” in a briefing at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Friday

• Nabil Fahmy, a former Egyptian ambassador to the United States, and Ephraim Sneh, a former member of the Israeli parliament. They participate in a forum on the Middle East at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

• Call Embassy Row at 202/636-3297 or e-mail jmorrison@washingtontimes.com.