Dignitaries planning to attend pope's funeral

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http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=3169512

Dignitaries who have confirmed plans to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral Friday at the Vatican:

-- UNITED STATES: President Bush and his wife, Laura; former Presidents George H.W. Bush of Houston and Bill Clinton; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

ALBANIA: President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Fatos Nano.

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

AUSTRALIA: Governor General Michael Jeffery.

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

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.

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.

COSTA RICA: President Abel Pacheco.

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: 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.

EUROPEAN UNION: European Parliament President Josep Borrell; European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and his wife, Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Huebner.

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 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, former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Parliamentary Speaker Katalin Szili, Supreme Court Chief Justice Zoltan Lomnici.

INDIA: Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

INDONESIA: Religious Minister Alwi Shihab.

IRAN: President Mohammad Khatami.

IRELAND: President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.

ISRAEL: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.

JAPAN: Former Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi.

KENYA: Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Makwere.

LATVIA: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

LEBANON: President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami, Marounite Christian patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir.

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.

MEXICO: President Vicente Fox.

MYANMAR: Ambassador Khin Maung Aye, Archbishop Charles Bo.

NETHERLANDS: Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.

NEW ZEALAND: Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright.

NICARAGUA: President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera.

NORWAY: Queen Sonja, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.

PAKISTAN: Minister for Religious Affairs Mohammed Ijaz-ul Haq.

PANAMA: First lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos.

PARAGUAY: Foreign Minister Leila Rachid.

PHILIPPINES: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

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

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

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: Serbia-Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic, Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, Serbian President Boris Tadic, Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova.

SLOVAKIA: President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky.

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: Prime Minister Goeran Persson.

SWITZERLAND: President Samuel Schmid.

SYRIA: President Bashar Assad.

TANZANIA: Minister for Cooperative Development George Kahama.

TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and State Minister Mehmet Aydin. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.

UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

URUGUAY: First Lady Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez.

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

[Catt03]

1. And Bill Clinton is going with all those Republicans?

Why?

He couldn't go on his own?