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12 November 2004
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Friday
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28 Ramazan 1425
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Leaders who will attend Arafat's funeral: list
CAIRO, Nov 11: Egypt will host a military funeral for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday before he is buried in the West Bank. The following is a list of world leaders and dignitaries who are expected to attend the funeral:
AFGHANISTAN - Vice President Hedayat Amin Arsala
ALGERIA - President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
ARAB LEAGUE - Secretary-General Amr Moussa
AUSTRIA - Vice-Chancellor Hubert Gorbach
BANGLADESH - President Iajuddin Ahmed
BELGIUM -Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht
BOSNIA - Prime Minister Adnan Terzic
BRAZIL - Cabinet Chief Jose Dirceu
BULGARIA - Foreign Minister Solomon Passy
CANADA - Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew
CHINA - Vice Premier Hui Liangyu
CROATIA - Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul
DENMARK - Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller
EGYPT - President Hosni Mubarak
EUROPEAN UNION - Foreign policy chief Javier Solana
FINLAND - Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja
FRANCE - Foreign Minister Michel Barnier
GERMANY - Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
GREECE - Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis
HUNGARY - Foreign Minister Ferenc Somogyi
INDIA - Minister of State for External Affairs Edappakath Ahamed
INDONESIA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
IRAN - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi
IRAQ - Vice-President Rowsch Shways
ITALY - Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Alfredo Mantica
JORDAN - King Abdullah
LEBANON - President Gen Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud
MOROCCO - Prince Moulay Rachid, King Mohammed's younger brother
PAKISTAN - Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
POLAND - Senate Speaker Longin Pastusiak, Deputy Foreign Minister Boguslaw Zaleski
PORTUGAL - Foreign Minister Antonio Monteiro
ROMANIA - Presidential Adviser Simona Miculescu
RUSSIA - State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov
SOUTH AFRICA - President Thabo Mbeki
SPAIN - Foreign Minister Angel Moratinos
SWEDEN - Prime Minister Goran Persson
TURKEY - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Speaker of the Federal National Council Mohammed Saeed
UNITED KINGDOM - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
UNITED NATIONS - Special representative for the Middle East peace process Terje Roed-Larsen
UNITED STATES - Assistant Secretary of State William Burns
YEMEN - President Ali Abdullah Saleh
ZIMBABWE - President Robert Mugabe -Reuters
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