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List of officials confirmed for Auschwitz commemoration

Agence France Presse — English
January 26, 2005 Wednesday 3:37 AM GMT

List of officials confirmed for Auschwitz commemoration

WARSAW Jan 26

Survivors of the Auschwitz death camp and Red Army soldiers who
prised the camp from the Nazis will gather Thursday at the site in
southern Poland, along with officials from around the world, to mark
the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.

There follows a list of officials the Polish presidency has confirmed
will attend the commemorative events at the camp on January 27:

Albania: Prime Minister Fatos Nano

Armenia: Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan

Austria: President Heinz Fischer

Azerbaijan: Parliamentary Speaker Murtuz Alasgarov

Belgium: King Albert II, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt

Belarus: Council of the Republic Chairman Gennady Novitsky

Bosnia-Hercegovina: Chairman of the Presidency Borislav Paravac

Britain: Foreign Minister Jack Straw, Prince Edward

Bulgaria: President Georgy Parvanov

Canada: Governor General Adrienne Clarkson

Cyprus: President Tassos Papadopoulos

Croatia: President Stipe Mesic

Denmark: Prince Joachim

Estonia: President Arnold Ruutel

Finland: Parliamentary Speaker Paavo Lipponen

France: President Jacques Chirac, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier

Germany: President Horst Koehler

Greece: President Konstantinos Stefanopoulos

Spain: Senate President Francisco Javier Rojo Garcia

Hungary: President Ferenc Madl

Ireland: President Mary McAleese

Israel: President Moshe Katzav

Italy: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

Kazakhstan: Senate Chairman Nourtay Abikayev

Lithuania: Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas

Luxemburg: Grand Duke Henri

Latvia: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga

Macedonia: Deputy Foreign Minister Fuad Hasanovic

Netherlands: Queen Beatrix, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende

Norway: Crown Prince Haakon, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik

Portugal: Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes

Czech Republic: President Vaclav Klaus

Romania: President Traian Basescu

Russia: President Vladimir Putin

Serbia and Montenegro: President Svetozar Marovic

Slovakia: President Ivan Gasparovic

Slovenia: President Janez Drnovsek

Sweden: Crown Princess Viktoria, Parliamentary Speaker Bjorn von
Sydow

Switzerland: President Samuel Schmid

Turkey: Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul

Ukraine: President Viktor Yushchenko

United States: Vice President Dick Cheney

Vatican: Mgr Jean-Marie Lustiger

European Union: Commission President Manuel Barroso, Parliamentary
President Joseph Borell Fontelles

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