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Papal Funeral: List of Dignitaries(AP) -- Here is a list of dignitaries who attended Pope John Paul II's funeral: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 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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