DRL launched "The Ambassadorial Roundtable Series" to foster partnerships between newly-confirmed U.S. Ambassadors and human rights and democracy non-governmental organizations (NGO). The DRL-hosted roundtables are frank, open, and informal discussions on the human rights, democratic governance, and civil society opportunities and challenges in the country of the Ambassador's assignment. They are a forum for the NGO community to get acquainted with the Ambassador, to brief him/her on current issues and concerns, and to share their significant in-country experience, insights, and recommendations. They also afford the Ambassador the opportunity to share with the NGOs his/her goals and objectives and to discuss how our human rights and democracy promotion efforts support the overall bilateral relationship with the country of assignment. DRL hopes that these roundtables will serve as a launching point for a sustained and robust dialogue between Ambassadors and NGO partners.
Roundtables To Date
| 2008 | |||
| November 26 | Ambassador | Marie L. Yovanovitch | Armenia |
| August 14 | Ambassador | David Pearce | Algeria |
| July 24 | Ambassador | Joseph LeBaron | Qatar |
| July 8 | Chargé d’Affaires | Maura Connelly | Syria |
April 10 | Ambassador | Deborah Jones | Kuwait |
April 2 | Ambassador | Margaret Scobey | Egypt |
March 28 | Ambassador | James Moriarty | Bangladesh |
January 25 | Ambassador | Charles Larson | Latvia |
January 24 | Ambassador | Michele Sison | Lebanon |
| 2007 | |||
| November 20 | Ambassador | William Garvelink | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| November 20 | Ambassador | Dan Mozena | Angola |
| November 9 | Ambassador | Mark Boulware | Mauritania |
| November 5 | Ambassador | James McGee | Zimbabwe |
| October 19 | Ambassador | P. Michael McKinley | Peru |
| September 13 | Ambassador | Hans Klemm | Timor-Leste |
| September 11 | Ambassador | Roderick Moore | Montenegro |
| September 7 | Ambassador | Wanda Nesbitt | Cote d'Ivoire |
| September 5 | Ambassador | Phillip Carter | Guinea |
| August 24 | Ambassador | Adam Ereli | Bahrain |
| August 16 | Ambassador | James Keith | Malaysia |
| August 8 | Ambassador | Cameron Munter | Serbia |
| August 6 | Ambassador | Janet Garvey | Cameroon |
| August 2 | Ambassador | Richard Boyd Norland | Uzbekistan |
| July 25 | Ambassador | June Carter Perry | Sierra Leone |
| July 18 | Ambassador | Nancy Powell | Nepal |
| July 9 | Ambassador | Charles English | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| July 5 | Ambassador | John Withers | Albania |
| July 3 | Ambassador | Ravic Huso | Laos |
| June 20 | Ambassador | Cameron Hume | Indonesia |
| April 13 | Ambassador | Ford Fraker | Saudi Arabia |
| 2006 | |||
| October 25 | Ambassador | Robert Godec | Tunisia |
| October 5 | Ambassador | Don Johnson | Equatorial Guinea |
| August 31 | Ambassador | Philip Goldberg | Bolivia |
| August 30 | Ambassador | Karen Stewart | Belarus |
| June 15 | Ambassador | Anne Derse | Azerbaijan |
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