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Monarchs, Presidents to Join Faithful at Pope Funeral
Yahoo News ^ | April 7, 2005

Posted on 04/07/2005 12:43:08 PM PDT by NYer

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Kings, queens and heads of state and government will join pilgrims for the funeral of Pope John Paul on Friday in what is expected to be the biggest gathering at the Vatican in its history.

President Bush will head the delegation from the United States, the White House said. Britain's Prince Charles postponed his wedding for a day in order to attend.

The following is a list of some of the dignitaries who have said they will attend:

AFGHANISTAN - President Hamid Karzai

ALBANIA - President Alfred Moisiu, former presidents Sali Berisha and Rexhep Meidani, Prime Minister Fatos Nano

ARGENTINA - Vice President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa

ARMENIA - Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan

AUSTRALIA - Governor-General Michael Jeffery, who represents Britain's Queen Elizabeth as Australia's head of state

AUSTRIA - President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel

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

BENIN - Foreign Minister Rogatien Biaou

BOSNIA - Chairman of the state presidency, Borisav Paravac

BOLIVIA - President Carlos Mesa

BRAZIL - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

BRITAIN - Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair

 

BULGARIA - President Georgi Parvanov

CAMEROON - President Paul Biya, Minister of External Relations Laurent Esso

CANADA - Prime Minister Paul Martin

CHILE - Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker. President Ricardo Lagos cannot attend as his 108-year-old mother is very ill.

COLOMBIA - Vice President Francisco Santos

COSTA RICA - President Abel Pacheco, Deputy Foreign Minister Marco Vinicio Vargas

CROATIA - President Stjepan Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader

CUBA - National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon

CYPRUS - President Tassos Papadopoulos

CZECH REPUBLIC - President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda

DENMARK - Queen Margrethe II and Prince Consort Henrik, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - President Joseph Kabila, Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba

ECUADOR - President Lucio Gutierrez or Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda

EGYPT - Culture Minister Farouk Hosni

EL SALVADOR - Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez

ESTONIA - President Arnold Ruutel

EUROPEAN UNION - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Hubner, Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini and External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner. Also European Parliament president Josep Borrel

FINLAND - Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen

FRANCE - President Jacques Chirac

GEORGIA - Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili

GERMANY - President Horst Koehler, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder

GREECE - President Karolos Papoulias

GUATEMALA- President Oscar Berger, Foreign Minister Jorge Briz Abularach

HONDURAS - President Ricardo Maduro

HUNGARY - President Ferenc Madl, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, opposition leader Viktor Orban

INDIA - Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

INDONESIA - Social Welfare Minister Alwi Shihab, Religious Affairs Minister Maftuh Basyuni

IRAN - President Mohammad Khatami

IRELAND - President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern

ISRAEL - President Moshe Katsav, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom

ITALY - President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

JAPAN - Former foreign minister Yoriko Kawaguchi

JORDAN - King Abdullah

KENYA - Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere, Local Government Minister Musikari Kombo

KOSOVO - President Ibrahim Rugova

LATVIA - President Vaira Vike-Freiberga

LEBANON - President Emile Lahoud (Maronite Christian), Prime Minister Omar Karami (Sunni Muslim) and parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri (Shi'ite Muslim)

LITHUANIA - President Valdas Adamkus

LUXEMBOURG - Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker

MACEDONIA - President Branko Crvenkovski

MADAGASCAR - President Marc Ravolomanana, Foreign Affairs Minister Marcel Ranjeva

MALAYSIA - Bernard Dompok, minister in charge of the civil service, Abdullah Mohamad Zin, minister in charge of religious affairs

MAURITANIA - Foreign Minister Mohamed Vall Ould Bellal

MEXICO - President Vicente Fox

MONTENEGRO - President Filip Vujanovic

MOZAMBIQUE - President Armando Guebuza

NICARAGUA - President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera

NIGERIA - President Olusegun Obasanjo

NETHERLANDS - Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende

NEW ZEALAND - Governor-General Silvia Cartwright

NORWAY - Queen Sonja, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik (King Harald is in hospital recovering from heart surgery)

PAKISTAN - Religious Affairs Minister Mohammad Ejaz ul Haq

PALESTINIANS - Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie

PANAMA - President Martin Torrijos, Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis

PARAGUAY - Vice President Luis Castiglioni and Minister of Education and Culture Blanca Ovelar

PERU - Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez, President of Peru's Congress Antero Flores, Justice Minister Eduardo Salhuana

PHILIPPINES - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

POLAND - President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Lech Walesa and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist president and prime minister

PORTUGAL - President Jorge Sampaio

ROMANIA - President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu

RUSSIA - Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov

RWANDA - Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Murigande

SENEGAL - President Abdoulaye Wade

SERBIA - President Boris Tadic

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO - President Svetozar Marovic

SEYCHELLES - President James Michel

SIERRA LEONE - Foday Seasay, ambassador to Germany

SINGAPORE - Deputy Prime Minister Professor S. Jayakumar

SLOVAKIA - President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky

SLOVENIA - President Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel. Rupel will represent the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

SPAIN - King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

SOUTH AFRICA - Deputy President Jacob Zuma

SOUTH KOREA - Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan

SRI LANKA - Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse

SWEDEN - King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia

SYRIA - President Bashar al-Assad

TAIWAN - President Chen Shui-bian

TANZANIA - Markets and Cooperatives Minister George Kahama

TURKEY - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan

UGANDA - Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya, the most senior Catholic in its government; Henry Okello Oryem, minister of state for international affairs.

UKRAINE - President Viktor Yushchenko

UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan

UNITED STATES - President Bush, former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

URUGUAY - Maria Auxiliadora Delgado, the wife of the president, and son Alvaro Vazquez

VENEZUELA - Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez

RELIGIOUS LEADERS:

Metropolitan Kirill, head of external relations for the Moscow Patriarchate. (Patriarch Alexiy II -- who repeatedly refused to meet the Pope -- will not attend)

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I

Spiritual head of the Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams

Chief Rabbinate Director-General Oded Viner

Greek Orthodox leader, Archbishop Christodoulos

Head of Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicos Garegin II

Turkey's Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II

Metropolitan of Abkhazia Daniel Datuashvili

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir

Romania's Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist

Bulgaria's Orthodox Rousse Bishop Neofit and Vidin Bishop Domitian

Norwegian Bishop Finn Wagle of the Protestant state church

Swedish Lutheran archbishop, K.G. Hammar

Albanian religious leaders: Selim Muca of the (Sunni) Muslim community, Rrok Mirdita, the Catholic Archbishop, Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi of the (Shi'ite) Bektashi Muslim sect and Orthodox Archbishop Anastasios of the Orthodox community.

Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abune Paulos


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First Lady Laura Bush (L), U.S. President George W. Bush and former presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice pay homage to Pope John Paul II, viewing the late pontiff's body in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica April 6, 2005. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano/Pool
1 posted on 04/07/2005 12:43:09 PM PDT by NYer
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U.S. President George W. Bush stands with his father, former president George Bush (R), while paying homage to Pope John Paul II, in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica, April 6, 2005. Bush went to the huge basilica as soon as he arrived in Italy and will be the first U.S. president to attend a pope's funeral on Friday. They knelt to pray in pews beside the body for about three minutes as the faithful who had queued for hours kept streaming past the bier and a choir sang Gregorian chants. REUTERS/Danilo Schiavella/POOL

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2 posted on 04/07/2005 12:44:51 PM PDT by NYer ("America needs much prayer, lest it lose its soul." John Paul II)
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To: NYer

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3 posted on 04/07/2005 12:46:34 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests, left, and Franciscan brothers attend a Requiem Mass for Pope John Paul II at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the burial place of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, April 6, 2005. Clergymen from many Christian faiths attended the mass led by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, in memory of Pope John Paul II who died Saturday at the age of 84. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool )

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4 posted on 04/07/2005 12:52:29 PM PDT by NYer ("America needs much prayer, lest it lose its soul." John Paul II)
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Someone should ask Osama bin Laden to represent the Taliban, and then when he shows up, nab him!


5 posted on 04/07/2005 12:53:19 PM PDT by Lou L
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To: NYer

Wow, what a list! I'm very nervous about this.


6 posted on 04/07/2005 1:02:01 PM PDT by adaven
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Patriarch Teoctist of Roumania will be there, and that makes me very happy. As Patriarch of the Orthodox Roumanians he had a good and warm relationship with Pope John Paul II.


7 posted on 04/07/2005 1:16:10 PM PDT by Siobhan († John Paul the Great, Apostle of the Gospel of Life, pray for us. †)
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To: NYer

Earlier in the day, the US Congressional delegation arrived---Dodd, Biden, Kerry (on crutches), Teddy.....and several others too liberal to mention.


8 posted on 04/07/2005 1:44:50 PM PDT by Liz (One of it's most compelling tenets is Catholicism's acknowledgement of individual free will.)
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To: NYer; The Mayor

Pataki was interviewed on CNN crowing about his Catholicity, announcing he and Libby are attending b/c it's "important" (gag).


9 posted on 04/07/2005 1:48:13 PM PDT by Liz (One of it's most compelling tenets is Catholicism's acknowledgement of individual free will.)
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That's some list of Who's Who!

What a security nightmare!!


10 posted on 04/07/2005 1:49:45 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: Liz

Those Senators should be seated way in the back of the basilica...behind a pillar and blocked from camera view.


11 posted on 04/07/2005 1:51:46 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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From CNN's website:

CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour together with anchors Anderson Cooper and Bill Hemmer lead CNN's historic coverage from Vatican City. Also reporting from Rome will be Rome Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci, CNN International anchors Jonathan Mann and Richard Quest and correspondents Jim Bittermann and Jennifer Eccleston.

I don't want "coverage" of eight talking heads. If anyone knows where to get a chatter-free viewing/tape of the event...

12 posted on 04/07/2005 2:09:50 PM PDT by newsworthy
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-Dodd, Biden, Kerry (on crutches), Teddy.....and several others too liberal to mention.

Kerry on crutches? Enquiring minds....

Are these senators part of the "official" delegation? I understood that the official delegation was 5, and that is why Carter did not go. Any info?
13 posted on 04/07/2005 2:12:06 PM PDT by baseballmom
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To: newsworthy
and Jennifer Eccleston.

Ah yes, "Miss Shock and Awe."

14 posted on 04/07/2005 2:13:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
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To: newsworthy

If CSpan covers it, that's a great way to watch - no noise.j

Also, EWTN, the Catholic world channel. I don't know if they'll talk over it - they did talk over the music the other day when moving the Pope's body from the chapel to the St. Peter's.


15 posted on 04/07/2005 2:14:13 PM PDT by baseballmom
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To: baseballmom
...CSpan...EWTN

Thanks---I'll check online.

...they did talk over the music the other day when moving the Pope's body from the chapel to the St. Peter's.

So contemptuous of the viewer and of the event itself...

16 posted on 04/07/2005 2:30:20 PM PDT by newsworthy
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To: baseballmom

C-Span is covering the funeral and is doing a replay at 8 pm EST tomorrow night.

It will be nice to just hear the music and prayers and not commentary :)


17 posted on 04/07/2005 2:31:54 PM PDT by Okies love Dubya 2 (I came looking for you, and now you come looking for me. I thank you." Pope John Paul II)
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To: baseballmom

They are a part of the Congressional delegation which is separate from the delegation the President is leading.


18 posted on 04/07/2005 2:50:09 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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The headline mentions monarchs, but there are only a few listed in the dignitaries section. How about King Juan Carlos and other Catholic monarchs who aren't heads-of-state? The reporters really didn't do their homework.


19 posted on 04/07/2005 3:50:40 PM PDT by ELS
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OK, can I retract my previous post? ;-) In my defense, I'll say that I haven't gotten much sleep this week.


20 posted on 04/07/2005 3:52:38 PM PDT by ELS
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