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As Requested. Your Special Guests Appear on the Last Page. Several Have Declined. Protocol Will Send You a Note on Seating Arran ROUTING SLIP FICHE DE TRANSMISSION TO.- The Sed«&ry-<Seneral A: FROM: Corinne Momal-Vanian /P.y DE: <^- Room No. - No tie Bureau Extension - Poste Date S a802A i-Q')'\i ns/na./9nrK FOR ACTION POUR SUITE A DONNER FOR APPROVAL POUR APPROBATION FOR SIGNATURE POUR SIGNATURE FOR COMMENTS POUR OBSERVATIONS MAY WE DISCUSS? POURRIONS -NOUS EN PARLER? YOUR ATTENTION VOTRE ATTENTION AS DISCUSSED COMME CONVENU AS REQUESTED SUITE A VOTRE DEMANDE NOTE AND RETURN NOTER ET RETOURNER FOR INFORMATION POUR INFORMATION As requested. Your special guests appear on the last page. Several have declined. Protocol will send you a note on seating arrangements for the lunch as soon as they have a final list of participants (probably over the weekend). Thank you. COM.6 (12-78) No. 3 O -' V * Protocol and Liaison -—-•---•"— - 8 September 2005 Guest list for the luncheon hosted by the Secretary-General in honour of the Heads of State and Government attending the 2005 World Summit of the General Assembly on Wednesday, 14 September 2004 - 1:15 pm - North Lounge yes Host: The Secretary-General Co-Chairpersons presiding over the High-level Plenary Meeting yes Gabon: H.E. El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (HS) yes Sweden: H.E. Mr. Goran Persson (HG) yes Deputy Secretary-General: Ms. Louise Frechette President of the fifty-ninth session of the General Asssembly yes Mr. Jean Ping (Gabon) President of the sixtieth session of the General Asssembly yes Mr. Jan K. Eliasson ( Sweden) yes Pres. of the Sec. Council: H.E. Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (HS - Philippines) yes Pres. ofECOSOC: H.E. Mr. Munir Akram (PR of Pakistan) Guests of honour Heads of State yes Albania: H.E. Mr. Alfred Moisiu (HS) INTERPRETER yes Algeria: H.E. Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika (HS) yes Argentina: H.E. Mr. Nestor Carlos Kirchner (HS) INTERPRETER no Austria: H.E. Mr. Heinz Fischer (HS) arrives 14.9. @ 2:45 pm Belarus: H.E. Mr. Alyaksandr Lukashenka (HS) yes Benin: H.E. Mr. Mathieu Kerekou (HS) no Bolivia: H.E. Mr. Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze (HS) INTERPRETER arrives 15.9.05 yes Bosnia + Herzegovina: H.E. Mr. Ivo Miro Jovic (HS) INTERPRETER yes Botswana: H.E. Mr. Festus G. Mogae (HS) yes Brazil: H.E. Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (HS) INTERPRETER yes Brunei Darussalam: His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah (HS) yes Bulgaria: H.E. Mr. Georgi Parvanov (HS) INTERPRETER yes Burundi: H.E. Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza (HS) INTERPRETER yes Cameroon: H.E. Mr. Paul Biya (HS) yes Cape Verde: H.E. Mr. Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires (HS) i yes Central Afr. Rep.: H.E. General (Army) FranQois Bozize (HS) [,_ yes Chile: H.E. Mr. Ricardo Lagos Escobar (HS) i'J '"^ yes China: H.E. Mr. Hu Jintao (HS) INTERPRETED yes H.E. Mr. Li Zhaoxing (FM) L Heads of State [continued] 14.09.05 no Colombia: H.E. Mr. Alvaro Uribe Velez (HS) arrives 15.9. yes Comoros: H.E. Colonel Azali Assoumani (HS) yes Congo: H.E. Mr. Denis Sassou Nguesso (HS) no Cote d'lvoire: H.E. Mr. Laurent Gbagbo (HS) not coming anymore yes Croatia: H.E. Mr. Stjepan Mesic (HS) yes Cyprus: H.E. Mr. Tassos Papadopoulos (HS) yes Djibouti: H.E. Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh (HS) yes Dom. Rep.: H.E. Mr. Leonel Fernandez Reyna (HS) yes Ecuador: H.E. Mr. Alfredo Palacio (HS) El Salvador: H.E. Mr. Elias Antonio Saca Gonzalez (HS) INTERPRETER arrives 15.9. yes Eq. Guinea: H.E. Mr. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (HS) Eritrea: H.E. is not coming anymore yes Estonia: H.E. Mr. Arnold Ruiitel (HS) INTERPRETER yes Finland: Her Excellency Ms. Tarja Halonen (HS) yes France: H.E. Mr. Jacques Chirac (HS) yes H.E. Mr. Philippe Douste-Blazy (FM) INTERPRETER yes Gambia: H.E. Al Hadji Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh (HS) yes Georgia: H.E. Mr. Mikheil Saakashvili (HS) yes Ghana: H.E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor (HS) Guyana: H.E. Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo (HS) yes Honduras: H.E. Mr. Ricardo Maduro Joest (HS) yes Hungary: H.E. Mr. Laszlo Solyom (HS) yes Indonesia: H.E. Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (HS) Iran (Islamic Rep. of): H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (HS) yes Iraq: H.E. Mr. Jalal Talabani (HS) yes Jordan: His Majesty King Abdullah n Bin Al Hussein (HS) yes Kenya: H.E. The Hon. Mwai Kibaki (HS) yes Kiribati: H.E. Mr. Anote Tong (HS) yes Kyrgyzstan: H.E. Mr. Kurmanbek Bakiev (HS) INTERPRETER yes Latvia: Her Excellency Mrs. Vaira Vike-Freiberga (HS) yes Lebanon: H.E. Mr. Emile Lahoud (HS) yes Liberia: H.E. Mr. Charles Gyude Bryant (HS) yes Lithuania: H.E. Mr. Valdas Adamkus (HS) yes Madagascar: H.E. Mr. Marc Ravalomanana (HS) yes Malawi: H.E. Mr. Bingu Wa Mutharika (HS) yes Maldives: H.E. Mr. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (HS) yes Mali: H.E. Mr. Amadou Toumani Toure (HS) yes Marshall Islands: H.E. Mr. Kessai Note (HS) Heads of State [continued] 14.09.05 Mauritania: H.E. Mr. FM - yes yes Mexico: H.E. Mr. Vicente Fox (HS) no Micronesia: H.E. Mr. Joseph Urusemal (HS) arrives 14.9. after luncheon yes Monaco: His Serene Highness Prince Albert n (HS) yes Mongolia: H.E. Mr. Nambar Enkhbayar (HS) yes Mozambique: H.E. Mr. Armando Emilio Guebuza (HS) yes Namibia: H.E. Mr. Hifikepunye Pohamba (HS) yes Nauru: H.E. The Hon. Ludwig Scotty, MP (HS) yes Nepal: His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (HS) yes Nigeria:H.E. Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo (HS) yes Pakistan: H.E. General Pervez Musharraf (HS) yes Palau: H.E. Mr. Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. (HS) no Panama: H.E. Mr. Martin Torrijos (HS) arrives 14.9. in the evening yes Paraguay: H.E. Mr. Nicanor Duarte Frutos (HS yes Peru: H.E. Mr. Alejandro Toledo Manrique (HS) no Poland: H.E. Mr. Aleksandr Kwasniewski (HS) arrives 14.9. in the afternoon yes Portugal: H.E. Mr. Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio (HS) yes Qatar: His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (HS) yes Republic of Korea: H.E. Mr. Roh Moo-hyun (HS) INTERPRETER yes Republic of Moldova: H.E. Mr. Vladimir Voronin (HS) Romania: H.E. Mr. Traian Basescu (HS) yes Russian Federation: H.E. Mr. Vladimir V. Putin (HS) yes H.E. Mr. Sergey V. Lavrov (FM) yes Rwanda: H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame (HS) yes San Marino: H.E. Ms Fausta Simona Morganti (Captain Regent-HS) yes H.E. Mr. Cesare Antonio Gasperoni (Captain Regent-HS) Interpreter yes Sao Tome + Principe: H.E. Mr. Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes (HS) Senegal: H.E. Mr. Abdoulaye Wade (HS) no Seychelles: H.E. Mr. James A. Michel (HS) arrives after luncheon Sierra Leone: H.E. Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (HS) yes Slovakia: H.E. Mr. Ivan Gasparovic (HS) INTERPRETER yes Slovenia: H.E. Mr. Janez Drnovsek (HS) yes South Africa: H.E. Mr. Thabo Mbeki (HS) yes Spain: His Majesty King Juan Carlos I (HS) yes Sri Lanka: Her Excellency The Hon Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (HS) Sudan: H.E. Mr. Omer Hassan A. Al-Bashir (HS) yes Suriname: H.E. Mr. Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan (HS) Swaziland: His Majesty King Mswati HI (HS) Heads of State [continued] 14.09.05 yes Switzerland: H.E. Mr. Samuel Schmid (HS) yes Tajikistan: H.E. Mr. Emomali Rakhmonov (HS) INTERPRETER yes TFYR Macedonia: H.E. Mr. Branko Crvenkovski (HS) Timor-Leste: H.E. Mr. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao (HS) Togo: H.E. Mr. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe (HS) yes Uganda: H.E. Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (HS) yes Ukraine: H.E. Mr. Victor Yushchenko (HS) INTERPRETER yes UR Tanzania: H.E. Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa (HS) yes USA: H.E. Mr. George W. Bush (HS) yes H.E. Ms. Condoleeza Rice (FM) Uruguay: H.E. Mr. Tabare Vazquez (HS) arrives 14.9. in the afternoon yes Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep. of): H.E. Mr. Hugo Chavez Frias (HS) yes Zambia: H.E. Mr. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (HS) yes Zimbabwe: H.E. Mr. Robert G. Mugabe (HS) Vice-Presidents yes Afghanistan: H.E. Mr. Ahmad Zia Massoud (First VP) Angola: VP no Costa Rica: Her Excellency Mrs. Lineth Taborio (First VP) arrives 14.9.05 after luncheon Cuba: yes Viet Nam: Her Excellency Ms. Truong My Hoa (W) INTERPRETER Crown Princes yes Bahrain: His Highness Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa (Crown Prince) yes Luxembourg: His Royal Highness The Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg (Crown Prince) yes Saudi Arabia: His Royal Highness Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud (Crown Prince)INTERPRETER Heads of Government yes Andorra: H.E. Mr. Albert Pintat Santolaria (HG) yes Antigua + Barbuda: H.E. The Hon. Winston Baldwin Spencer (HG) yes Armenia: H.E. Mr. Andranik Margaryan (HG) INTERPRETER yes Australia: H.E. The Hon. John Howard, MP (HG) yes Bangladesh: Her Excellency Begum Khaleda Zia (HG) yes Barbados: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Owen S. Arthur, MP (HG) yes Belgium: H.E. Mr. Guy Verhofstadt (HG) yes Belize: H.E. The Hon. Said W. Musa (HG) yes Cambodia: H.E. Mr. Samdech Hun Sen (HG) yes Canada: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Paul Martin (HG) Heads of Government [continued] 14.09.05 yes Czech Republic: H.E. Mr. Jifi Paroubek (HG) INTERRETER yes Denmark: H.E. Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen (HG) Dominica: H.E. The Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit (HG) yes Ethiopia: H.E. Mr. Meles Zenawi (HG) no Fiji: H.E. The Hon. Laisenia Qarase (HG) arrives 14.9. in the evening yes Greece: H.E. Mr. Kostas Karamanlis (HG) yes Grenada: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Keith C. Mitchell (HG) yes Guinea: H.E. Mr. Cellou Dalein Diallo (HG) yes Guinea-Bissau: H.E.
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