May 5, 2009
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News
By Anna Gawel
The Washington Diplomat
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Czechs Wrap Up Eventful EU Presidency
Global economic calamity, the G-20 summit, NATO’s 60th summit, the collapse of its own ruling government, a president opposed to the very bloc his country presides over, and now swine flu — it certainly hasn’t been a dull agenda for the Czech Republic as it wraps up its presidency of the European Union....Read More
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Rice Offers Her Vision of Middle East
Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by Larry Luxner
Despite the 9/11 attacks and Iraq and Afghanistan, there’s more reason to be optimistic about the Middle East today than the day George W. Bush moved into the White House — at least according to Bush’s last secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice...Read More
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Sri Lanka Closes in on Tamil Tigers
Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by Larry Luxner
In early April, Sri Lanka’s foreign secretary gathered half a dozen journalists in Washington, where he confidently declared that Asia’s longest-running ethnic war would be wrapped up in a matter of days. Nearly a month later, the fighting still rages...Read More
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Peddling for the People of Tanzania
Simon Shercliff may have left his job teaching in Tanzania for the British Foreign Service, but he never left behind his love of the African country. Today, he’s peddling from Washington to Africa to raise $25,000 to help Tanzania’s orphans — Africa, Indiana, that is...Read More
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It’s Raining Receptions
So far, April showers seem to have only brought us May showers instead of flowers, but there’s an abundance of fundraisers, balls, galas and festivals this month to brighten up the days, while benefiting worthy causes...Read More
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African Union Deputy Seeks Obama’s Ear
Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by Larry Luxner
When Erastus Mwencha came calling on Washington last week, he had plenty of issues on his plate, from economic disruption and regional energy concerns to Sudanese poverty and Somali pirates...Read More
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Hope for Ukraine from Chernobyl Wreckage
Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by Patrick Haggerty
Last week, the Embassy of Ukraine hosted an event to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history...Read More
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Lifestyle
By Gail Scott
The Washington Diplomat
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Celebrating a ‘Diplomat’s Diplomat’
Ambassador Thomas Pickering, former undersecretary of state for political affairs in the Clinton administration from 1997-2001, was honored by the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank, for being a “leading multilateralist who personifies the Stimson Center’s ethos of pragmatic idealism"...Read More
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Without a Drop of Paprika
Without a drop of Hungarian blood in him, or as Hungarians like to say — without a drop of paprika — John C. Whitehead was fêted by the Hungarian American Coalition “for his personal courage and 53 years of true generosity” to Hungary...Read More
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400 Years of Dutch-American Relations
The Netherland-American Foundation, throughout its chapters across the country, is celebrating the two countries’ common values of freedom, openness, entrepreneurship and tolerance, along with the cultural ties started by those first Dutch-American pioneers some 400 years ago...Read More
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Friedman Wins Urbino Award
Urbino, the picturesque capital of the Marche region in central Italy, has a historic past, but it's also busy creating an enlightened future with the Urbino Press Award, which is being given to Thomas Friedman this year...Read More
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