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Dignitaries Set to Attend Pope's Funeral
Associated Press
Friday, April 8, 2005
Dignitaries planning to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral Friday:
ALBANIA: President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Fatos Nano
ALGERIA: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
ANGOLA: President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
ARAB LEAGUE: Secretary-General Amr Moussa
ARGENTINA: Vice President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa
ARMENIA: Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, Catholicos Karekin II
AUSTRALIA: Governor General Michael Jeffery
AUSTRIA: President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel,
Parliament Speaker Andreas Khol
AZERBAIJAN: Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
BANGLADESH: Food and Disaster Management Minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf
BELGIUM: King Albert II and Queen Paola, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
BOLIVIA: President Carlos Mesa
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Chaiman of Presidency Borislav Paravac
BRAZIL: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
BRITAIN: Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams
BULGARIA: President Georgi Parvanov
CANADA: Prime Minister Paul Martin
CHILE: Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker
COLOMBIA: Vice President Francisco Santos and his wife, Maria Victoria.
CONGO: President Joseph Kabila
COSTA RICA: President Abel Pacheco
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Secretary General Terry Davis, Daniel Rotfeld,
chairman of committee of ministers, Rene van der Linden, chairman of
Parliamentary Assembly, Giovanni di Stasi, chairman council's body
overseeing local authorities
CROATIA: President Stipe Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
CUBA: National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon, Caridad Diego, head
of religious affairs for Communist Party
CZECH REPUBLIC: President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda
DENMARK: Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, Prime Minister Anders Fogh
Rasmussen
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: First lady Margarita Cedeno, Secretary of Education
Alejandrina German
ECUADOR: President Lucio Gutierrez
EL SALVADOR: Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez, first lady Ana Ligia
Mixco de Saca, Interior Minister Rene Figueroa
EGYPT: Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni
ESTONIA: President Arnold Ruutel, former President Lennart Meri
ETHIOPIA: Abune Paulos, head of the Orthodox church
EUROPEAN UNION: European Parliament President Josep Borrell, European
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and his wife, Commission Vice
President Franco Frattini, External Relations Commissioner Benita
Ferrero-Waldner, Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Huebner
FINLAND: Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop
Jukka Paarma, Russian Orthodox Archbishop Leo
FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette
GREECE: President Karolos Papoulias, Greek Orthodox Church leader
Archbishop Christodoulos
GERMANY: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Horst Koehler
GUATEMALA: President Oscar Berger and first lady Wendy de Berger,
Foreign Minister Jorge Briz, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu
HAITI: Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue
HONDURAS: President Ricardo Maduro
HUNGARY: President Ferenc Madl and his wife, Dalma, Prime Minister
Ferenc Gyurcsany, Parliamentary Speaker Katalin Szili, former Prime
Minister Viktor Orban
INDIA: Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
INDONESIA: Religious Minister Alwi Shihab
IRAN: President Mohammad Khatami
IRELAND: President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, Deputy
Prime Minister Mary Harney
ISRAEL: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, Haifa Chief Rabbi Shear-Yishuv Cohen
ITALY: President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
JAPAN: Former Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi
JORDAN: King Abdullah II
KENYA: Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Makwere
KUWAIT: Sheik Jaber Al Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah
LATVIA: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga
LEBANON: President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami, Maronite
Christian patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, Armenian Orthodox leader
Catholicos Aram II.
LESOTHO: King Letsie III, Foreign Minister Monyane Moleleki
LIECHTENSTEIN: Prince Hans-Adam II, Princess Marie and Prince Nicholas
LITHUANIA: President Valdas Adamkus
LUXEMBOURG: Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Prime
Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
MACEDONIA: President Branko Crvenkovski
MEXICO: President Vicente Fox
MONACO: Patrick Leclercq, chief of government
MYANMAR: Ambassador Khin Maung Aye, Archbishop Charles Bo
NATO: Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
NETHERLANDS: Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
NEW ZEALAND: Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright
NICARAGUA: President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera
NIGERIA: President Olusegun Obasanjo
NORWAY: Queen Sonja, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik
PAKISTAN: Minister for Religious Affairs Mohammed Ijaz-ul Haq
PANAMA: President Martin Torrijos and his wife, Vivian
PARAGUAY: Foreign Minister Leila Rachid
PHILIPPINES: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
POLAND: President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his wife, Prime Minister
Marek Belka, Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld, former President Lech Walesa
PORTUGAL: President Jorge Sampaio and first lady Maria Jose Ritta,
Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral, former President Gen. Antonio
Ramalho Eanes
ROMANIA: President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Popescu
Tariceanu, Metropolitan Daniel of Romanian Orthodox Church
RUSSIA: Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Russian Orthox Church foreign
minister Metropolitan Kirill
RWANDA: Foreign Minister Charles Murigande
SENEGAL: President Abdoulaye Wade
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: Serbia-Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic,
Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, Serbian President Boris Tadic,
Montenegro President Filip Vujanovic, Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova,
Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi and Kosov parliament head Nexhat Daci
SLOVAKIA: President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol
Hrusovsky, Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan
SOUTH AFRICA: Deputy President Jacob Zuma, former President Nelson Mandela
SOUTH KOREA: Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan
SPAIN: King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero
SRI LANKA: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse
SWEDEN: King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, Prime Minister Goeran Persson
SWITZERLAND: President Samuel Schmid
SYRIA: President Bashar Assad
TANZANIA: Minister for Cooperative Development George Kahama
TAIWAN: President Chen Shui-bian, Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun, imam Ma
Shiao-chi
THAILAND: Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai
TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, State Minister Mehmet
Aydin, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Patriarch Mesrob II
UKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan
UNITED STATES: President Bush and his wife, Laura, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton,
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
URUGUAY: First Lady Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez
VENEZUELA: Foreign Relations Minister Ali Rodriguez, Planning Minister
Jorge Giordanni
ZIMBABWE: President Robert Mugabe
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050407/ap/d89aqb780.html
Associated Press
Friday, April 8, 2005
Dignitaries planning to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral Friday:
ALBANIA: President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Fatos Nano
ALGERIA: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
ANGOLA: President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
ARAB LEAGUE: Secretary-General Amr Moussa
ARGENTINA: Vice President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa
ARMENIA: Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, Catholicos Karekin II
AUSTRALIA: Governor General Michael Jeffery
AUSTRIA: President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel,
Parliament Speaker Andreas Khol
AZERBAIJAN: Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
BANGLADESH: Food and Disaster Management Minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf
BELGIUM: King Albert II and Queen Paola, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
BOLIVIA: President Carlos Mesa
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Chaiman of Presidency Borislav Paravac
BRAZIL: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
BRITAIN: Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams
BULGARIA: President Georgi Parvanov
CANADA: Prime Minister Paul Martin
CHILE: Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker
COLOMBIA: Vice President Francisco Santos and his wife, Maria Victoria.
CONGO: President Joseph Kabila
COSTA RICA: President Abel Pacheco
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Secretary General Terry Davis, Daniel Rotfeld,
chairman of committee of ministers, Rene van der Linden, chairman of
Parliamentary Assembly, Giovanni di Stasi, chairman council's body
overseeing local authorities
CROATIA: President Stipe Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
CUBA: National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon, Caridad Diego, head
of religious affairs for Communist Party
CZECH REPUBLIC: President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda
DENMARK: Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, Prime Minister Anders Fogh
Rasmussen
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: First lady Margarita Cedeno, Secretary of Education
Alejandrina German
ECUADOR: President Lucio Gutierrez
EL SALVADOR: Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez, first lady Ana Ligia
Mixco de Saca, Interior Minister Rene Figueroa
EGYPT: Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni
ESTONIA: President Arnold Ruutel, former President Lennart Meri
ETHIOPIA: Abune Paulos, head of the Orthodox church
EUROPEAN UNION: European Parliament President Josep Borrell, European
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and his wife, Commission Vice
President Franco Frattini, External Relations Commissioner Benita
Ferrero-Waldner, Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Huebner
FINLAND: Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop
Jukka Paarma, Russian Orthodox Archbishop Leo
FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette
GREECE: President Karolos Papoulias, Greek Orthodox Church leader
Archbishop Christodoulos
GERMANY: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Horst Koehler
GUATEMALA: President Oscar Berger and first lady Wendy de Berger,
Foreign Minister Jorge Briz, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu
HAITI: Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue
HONDURAS: President Ricardo Maduro
HUNGARY: President Ferenc Madl and his wife, Dalma, Prime Minister
Ferenc Gyurcsany, Parliamentary Speaker Katalin Szili, former Prime
Minister Viktor Orban
INDIA: Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
INDONESIA: Religious Minister Alwi Shihab
IRAN: President Mohammad Khatami
IRELAND: President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, Deputy
Prime Minister Mary Harney
ISRAEL: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, Haifa Chief Rabbi Shear-Yishuv Cohen
ITALY: President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
JAPAN: Former Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi
JORDAN: King Abdullah II
KENYA: Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Makwere
KUWAIT: Sheik Jaber Al Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah
LATVIA: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga
LEBANON: President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami, Maronite
Christian patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, Armenian Orthodox leader
Catholicos Aram II.
LESOTHO: King Letsie III, Foreign Minister Monyane Moleleki
LIECHTENSTEIN: Prince Hans-Adam II, Princess Marie and Prince Nicholas
LITHUANIA: President Valdas Adamkus
LUXEMBOURG: Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Prime
Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
MACEDONIA: President Branko Crvenkovski
MEXICO: President Vicente Fox
MONACO: Patrick Leclercq, chief of government
MYANMAR: Ambassador Khin Maung Aye, Archbishop Charles Bo
NATO: Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
NETHERLANDS: Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
NEW ZEALAND: Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright
NICARAGUA: President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera
NIGERIA: President Olusegun Obasanjo
NORWAY: Queen Sonja, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik
PAKISTAN: Minister for Religious Affairs Mohammed Ijaz-ul Haq
PANAMA: President Martin Torrijos and his wife, Vivian
PARAGUAY: Foreign Minister Leila Rachid
PHILIPPINES: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
POLAND: President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his wife, Prime Minister
Marek Belka, Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld, former President Lech Walesa
PORTUGAL: President Jorge Sampaio and first lady Maria Jose Ritta,
Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral, former President Gen. Antonio
Ramalho Eanes
ROMANIA: President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Popescu
Tariceanu, Metropolitan Daniel of Romanian Orthodox Church
RUSSIA: Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Russian Orthox Church foreign
minister Metropolitan Kirill
RWANDA: Foreign Minister Charles Murigande
SENEGAL: President Abdoulaye Wade
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: Serbia-Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic,
Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, Serbian President Boris Tadic,
Montenegro President Filip Vujanovic, Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova,
Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi and Kosov parliament head Nexhat Daci
SLOVAKIA: President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol
Hrusovsky, Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan
SOUTH AFRICA: Deputy President Jacob Zuma, former President Nelson Mandela
SOUTH KOREA: Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan
SPAIN: King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero
SRI LANKA: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse
SWEDEN: King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, Prime Minister Goeran Persson
SWITZERLAND: President Samuel Schmid
SYRIA: President Bashar Assad
TANZANIA: Minister for Cooperative Development George Kahama
TAIWAN: President Chen Shui-bian, Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun, imam Ma
Shiao-chi
THAILAND: Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai
TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, State Minister Mehmet
Aydin, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Patriarch Mesrob II
UKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan
UNITED STATES: President Bush and his wife, Laura, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton,
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
URUGUAY: First Lady Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez
VENEZUELA: Foreign Relations Minister Ali Rodriguez, Planning Minister
Jorge Giordanni
ZIMBABWE: President Robert Mugabe
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