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