The following world leaders and dignitaries are slated to attend the military funeral held today for the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat:
AFGHANISTAN – Vice President Hedayat Amin Arsala
ARAB LEAGUE – Secretary-General Amr Moussa
AUSTRIA – Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach
BANGLADESH – President Iajuddin Ahmed
BELGIUM – Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, Development and Foreign Aid
Minister Armand De Decker
BRAZIL – Cabinet Chief Jose Dirceu
BULGARIA – Foreign Minister Solomon Passy
CANADA – Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew
CHINA – Vice Premier Hui Liangyu
CYPRUS – Foreign Minister George Iakovou, Presidential envoy Vassos
Lyssarides
DENMARK – Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller
EGYPT – President Hosni Mubarak
EUROPEAN COMMISSION – Development and Humanitarian Aid
Commissioner-designate Louis Michel
EUROPEAN UNION – Foreign policy chief Javier Solana
FINLAND – Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja
FRANCE – Foreign Minister Michel Barnier
GERMANY – Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
GREECE – Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis
INDONESIA – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
IRAN – Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi
IRELAND – Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern
JORDAN – King Abdullah II
LEBANON – President General Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar
Karami, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud
LUXEMBOURG – Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jean
Asselborn
NETHERLANDS – Foreign Minister Bernard Bot
NORWAY – Foreign Minister Jan Petersen
PAKISTAN – Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
PORTUGAL – Foreign Minister Antonio Monteiro
ROMANIA – Presidential adviser Simona Miculescu
RUSSIA – State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov, Deputy Foreign Minister
Alexander Saltanov
SLOVAKIA – Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan
SLOVENIA – Foreign Minister Ivo Vajgl
SOUTH AFRICA – President Thabo Mbeki
SOUTH KOREA – Former Foreign Minister Yoon Young-Kwan
SPAIN – Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos
SWEDEN – Prime Minister Goran Persson
SWITZERLAND – Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey
TUNISIA – President Zine el-Abdine Ben Ali
TURKEY – Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Speaker of the Federal National Council
Mohammed Saeed al Kindi, Minister of Supreme Council Affairs Sheikh Fahim bin Sultan
al-Qassimi
UNITED KINGDOM – Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
UNITED STATES – Assistant Secretary of State Williams Burns
YEMEN – President Ali Abdullah Sale
