The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Friends of Slovakia (FOS), and American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFoCR) held a luncheon roundtable event entitled "Central European Energy Security Forum." The event sponsored by Friends of Slovakia and American Friends of the Czech Republic was held on May 15 and the purpose wa to provide a forum to discuss the most important energy-related issues of the Central and Eastern European region, and focus mainly on the Visegrad group countries.

Among our distinguished speakers were Douglas Hengel, Deputy Assistant Secretary from the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs of the Department of State, Ambassador Vaclav Bartuska, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security at the Czech Foreign Ministry, Wojciech Ponikiewski, Director of the Department of Foreign Economic Policy at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Slovak Ambassador to Washington, Rastislav Kacer.