Mr Koizumi said he would continue his visits, which, the government said, he made as a "private citizen".Starting overColin Powell visited Haiti for talks with the country's new leaders.
In March 2009 Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, visited Azerbaijan for talks with Mr Aliyev on potential areas of co-operation.
The shift by Pakistan came two weeks after Mr. Karzai visited Islamabad for talks with the Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.
Last week, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, head of the United States Central Command, and Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, supreme allied commander in Europe, visited Turkey for talks with its top commanders.
The strike came as Gen. Ergin Saygun, the second in command of the Turkish military, visited Baghdad for talks on the Kurdish rebel group.
The executions were carried out only days after Mr Erdogan visited Riyadh for talks with King Salman, and Iranian news reports were quick to draw a connection between the two.
Two top American officials visited Beijing for talks on the relationship last week in what a State Department spokesman had called an attempt to "get back to business as quickly as possible".
On Thursday, Senator John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the International Republican Institute and previously a sharp critic of the Brotherhood who recently visited Egypt for talks about the issue, praised the Islamists' statement as "important in helping to resolve the crisis".
See articleEnding speculation that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may try to amend the Philippine constitution to allow her to serve another term as president, her party named Gilberto Teodoro as its candidate for next year's election.A senior United Nations official, Lynn Pascoe, visited Sri Lanka for talks.
The ban does not apply to comics known as manga.A senior Chinese diplomat visited Vietnam for talks aimed at calming relations between the two neighbours, but the two sides ended up exchanging sharp views over their dispute in the South China Sea.China handed down lengthy jail sentences to three anti-corruption activists.
