List of dignitaries planning to attending Victory in Europe Day ceremonies
in Moscow

.c The Associated Press

Dignitaries who attended Victory in Europe Day ceremonies in Moscow:

ALBANIA: President Alfred Moisiu

ARMENIA: President Robert Kocharian

AUSTRALIA: Governor General Michael Jeffery

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Chaiman of Presidency Borislav Paravac

BRITAIN: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott

BULGARIA: President Georgi Parvanov

CANADA: Governor General Adrienne Clarkson

CHINA: President Hu Jintao

CROATIA: President Stipe Mesic

CYPRUS: President Tassos Papadopoulos

CZECH REPUBLIC: President Vaclav Klaus

DENMARK: Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen

EUROPEAN COMMISSION: President Jose Manuel Barroso

FINLAND: President Tarja Halonen

FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac

GERMANY: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder

GREECE: President Karolos Papoulias

HUNGARY: President Ferenc Madl

ICELAND: Prime Minister Halldor Asgrimsson

INDIA: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

IRELAND: Prime Minister Bertie Ahern

ISRAEL: President Moshe Katsav

ITALY: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

JAPAN: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi

KAZAKHSTAN: President Nursultan Nazarbayev

KYRGYZSTAN: Acting President Kurmanbek Bakiyev

LATVIA: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga

LUXEMBOURG: Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker

MACEDONIA: President Branko Crvenkovski

MALTA: Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi

MONGOLIA: President Natsagiin Bagabandi

NETHERLANDS: Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende

NEW ZEALAND: Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright

NORTH KOREA: Ri Jong San, vice marshal of the North’s Korean People’s Army

NORWAY: Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik

POLAND: President Aleksander Kwasniewski

PORTUGAL: Prime Minister Jose Socrates

ROMANIA: President Traian Basescu,

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: President Svetozar Marovic

SLOVAKIA: President Ivan Gasparovic

SLOVENIA: President Janez Drnovsek

SOUTH KOREA: President Roh Moo-hyun

SPAIN: Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

SWEDEN: Prime Minister Goran Persson

SWITZERLAND: President Samuel Schmid

TAJIKISTAN: President Emomali Rakhmonov

TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

TURKMENISTAN: President Saparmurat Niyazov

UKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko

UNESCO: Director-General Koichiro Matsuura.

UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan

UNITED STATES: President George W. Bush

UZBEKISTAN: President Islam Karimov

Former heads of state

CYPRUS: President Glafcos Clerides

POLAND: Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski

ROMANIA: Former King Michael

05/09/05 12:05 EDT