| December 12-13 | Erlan Idrisov, Foreign Minister, Kazakhstan |
| December 7 | Stephen Sestanovich, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for the CIS, U.S. Department of State |
| November 15 | Sumio Edamura, Special Assistant to Japanese Foreign Minister |
| October 25 | Johannes Lynn, Vice-President, World Bank |
| October 19 | Pino Arlacchi, Deputy UN
Secretary-General, UNDCP Chairman |
| October 19 | Benita Ferrero-Waldner, OSCE chairwoman, Austrian Foreign Minister |
| October 16 | Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President, Turkey |
| October 12-13 | Leonid Kuchma, President, Ukraine |
| October 2 | Ismail Cem, Foreign Minister, Turkey |
| September 27 | General Tommy Franks, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command |
| September 14-15 | Hasan Bin Talal, Prince, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
| September 15 | Amangeldy Muraliev, Prime Minister, Kyrgyzstan |
| September 13-14 | Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General, UNSECO |
| September 12 | David Green, Director-General, British Council |
| September 11-12 | Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister, Ukraine |
| August 21 | Tsuhomu Hata, Chairman, Democratic Party, Japan (former PM) |
| August 12 | Minora Murofushi, Chairman, Itochu Corporation, Japan |
| July 18 | Marc Danzon, Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe |
| July 13 | Francesco Ricci Bitti, President, International Tennis Federation
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| July 12-13 | Stephen Sestanovich, Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State for NIS states; Theodore Warner, Assistant Secretary of Defense; William Taylor, Acting Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to NIS states
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| July 8 | Alain Richard, Defense Minister, France |
| July 5-6 | George Robertson, NATO Secretary-General |
| June 19 | Kimio Fujita, President, Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) |
| June 2 | Benita-Maria Ferrero-Waldner, OSCE Chairman-In-Office and Austrian Foreign Minister |
| May 18-19 | Vladimir Putin, President, Russian Federation |
| May 14-17 | General Anthony Zinni, Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command |
| April 20-21 | Askar Akaev, President of Kyrgyzstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of Kazakstan, Emomali Rakhmonov, President of Tajikistan |
| April 16-19 | Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State |
| April 10 | Sergei Yastrzhembsky, Special Envoy of the Russian President |
| April 8 | Louis Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), USA |
| March 29 | George Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), USA |
| March 17 | Sergey Ivanov, Secretary of Security Council, Ilya Klebanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Leonid Drachevskiy, Minister for the CIS, Russian Federation |
| March 3 | Chingiz Aytmatov, famous Kyrgyz writer and the President of the Assembly of the Cultures of the Peoples of Central Asia |
| February 7-11 | Ronald Cambre, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Wayne Murdy, President, Newmont Mining Corporation |
| January 27-29 | Jean-Pierre Rosso, Chief Executive Officer, Case New Holland Corporation |
