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200 Years of U.S.-Russian Diplomatic Relations: Keynote Address
Mon, September 24th, 2007
Washington, D.C.
IMGXYZ773IMGZYX Celebrating 200 Years of U.S.-Russian diplomatic relations and honoring former Russian and American ambassadors to Washington and Moscow, the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton, Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, delivered the keynote address.
Eleven former and the two current ambassadors were in attendance:
H.E. William J. Burns, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow;
H.E. Yuri V. Ushakov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States;
Ambassador Alexander A. Bessmertnykh, President of the Russian Foreign Policy Association;
Ambassador James F. Collins, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment;
Ambassador Yuri V. Dubinin, Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations;
Ambassador Arthur A. Hartman, member of the International Advisory Council at APCO Worldwide;
Ambassador Victor G. Komplektov, Professor at the Moscow Humanitarian University;
Ambassador Vladimir P. Lukin, Ombudsman for Human Rights of Russia;
Ambassador Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Princeton University;
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, Vice Chairman of Hills & Company;
Ambassador Robert Strauss, Founding Partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld;
H.E. Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to Korea;
Ambassador Yuli M. Vorontsov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of AIG Financial Services in Moscow
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Event Speaker
Lee Hamilton