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List of Dignitaries Attending Pope's Funeral


ALBANIA: President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Fatos Nano.

ARGENTINA: Vice President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa.

AUSTRIA: President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel,Parliament Speaker Andreas Khol.

BELGIUM: King Albert II, Queen Paola, Prime Minister Guy
Verhofstadt.

BRAZIL: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

BRITAIN: Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair.

BULGARIA: President Georgi Parvanov.

CANADA: Prime Minister Paul Martin.

CHILE: Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker.

COLOMBIA: Vice President Francisco Santos.

COSTA RICA: President Abel Pacheco.

CZECH REPUBLIC: President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: First lady Margarita Cedeno and Ambassador to the Vatican Carlos Rafael Marion-Landais.

EL SALVADOR: First lady Ana Ligia Mixco de Saca, Foreign
Minister Francisco Lainez.

ESTONIA: President Arnold Ruutel.

FINLAND: Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.

FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette.

GERMANY: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Horst Koehler.

GUATEMALA: President Oscar Berger and his wife, Foreign Minister Jorge Briz and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.

HAITI: Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue.

HUNGARY: President Ferenc Madl, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.

INDIA: Vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

IRELAND: President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.

LATVIA: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

LEBANON: President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami.

LIECHTENSTEIN: Prince Hans-Adam II, Princess Marie, Prince Nicholas.

LITHUANIA: President Valdas Adamkus.

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

NICARAGUA: President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera, Ambassador to the Vatican Armando Luna.

PANAMA: First lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos.

POLAND: President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his wife, Prime Minister Marek Belka, former President Lech Walesa.

PORTUGAL: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, President Jorge Sampaio.

ROMANIA: Romanian President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu.

RUSSIA: Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov; Metropolitan Kirill, foreign minister for the Russian Orthodox Church.

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova.

SLOVAKIA: President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky.
SPAIN: Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia.

SWITZERLAND: President Samuel Schmid.

SYRIA: President Bashar Assad.

UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

UNITED STATES: President George Bush and his wife, Laura.

URUGUAY: First lady Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez.

VENEZUELA: Foreign Relations Minister Ali Rodriguez, Planning Minister Jorge Giordanni.

(FOX news also reporting that Presidents George HW Bush and Clinton will also attend)



3,315 posted on 04/04/2005 4:15:30 PM PDT by Velveeta ("The litmus test is whether or not a person can bring a spoon to their mouth" G. Felos)
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To: Velveeta

I wonder what Tom Clancy would say about this list?

Reads like the precursor of a novel.


3,331 posted on 04/04/2005 7:01:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Velveeta

Add two more Presidents traveling with ours:

Bush and Clinton


3,366 posted on 04/05/2005 11:41:11 AM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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