VIPs to attend funeral
2004-06-10 07:47
Washington - Here is a list of the foreign dignitaries expected to attend former US president Ronald Reagan's funeral on Friday:
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Britain's Prince Charles
Irish President Mary McAleese
South African President Thabo Mbeki
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo
Romanian President Ion Iliescu
Acting Lithuanian President Arturas Paulauskas
Former Finnish President Mauno Koivisto
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano
Canadian Govenor General Adrienne Clarkson
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
Australian Govenor General Maj. Gen. Michael Jeffrey
Former Polish President Lech Walesa
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone
Slovakian President Rudolf Schuster
Grenadan Govenor General Sir Daniel Williams
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai
Former Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlueter
Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Lars Engqvist
Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Portuguese Parliament President Joao Mota Amaral
Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue
Mexican first lady Marta Sahagun
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez
- AFP