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Profiles of People in Power; the World' S Government Leaders A 363573 500 Profiles of People in Power; the World' s Government Leaders Roger East and Richard J. Thomas FIRST EDITION Europa Publications Taylor Si Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK CONTENTS Photographs xv Azerbaijan 31 UN Millennium Summit Heydar Aliyev AU Inaugural Summit Artur Rasizade APEC Summit Bahamas 34 EU Enlargement Summit Dame Ivy Dumont Perry Christie Afghanistan 1 Bahrain 37 Hamid Karzai Sheikh Hamad Sheikh Khalifa Albania 4 Gen. (retd) Alfred Moisiu Bangladesh 40 Fatos Nano Iajuddin Ahmed Khaleda Zia Algeria 7 Abdelaziz Bouteflika Barbados 43 Ali Benflis Sir Clifford Husbands Owen Arthur Andorra 10 Joan Martf Alanis Belarus 46 Marc Forne Molne Aleksandr Lukashenka Gennady Novitsky Angola 12 Jose Eduardo dos Santos Belgium 49 Fernando da Piedade Albert II Guy Verhofstadt Antigua and Barbuda 15 Sir James B. Carlisle Belize 52 Lester Bird Sir Colville Young Said Musa Argentina 18 Eduardo Duhalde Benin 55 Alfredo Atanasof Gen. Mathieu Kerekou Armenia 21 Bhutan 57 Robert Kocharian Jigme Singye Wangchuk Andranik Markarian Kinzang Dorji Australia 24 Bolivia 59 Peter Hollingworth Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada John Howard Bosnia and Herzegovina 61 Austria 28 Mirko Sarovic Thomas Klestil Adnan Terzic Wolfgang Schiissel Paddy Ashdown vn Contents Botswana 65 China, People's Rep 103 Festus Mogae Jiang Zemin Zhu Rongji Brazil 67 Hu Jintao Luiz 'Lula' da Silva Fernando Henrique Cardoso China, Rep. see Taiwan Brunei 71 Sir Hassanal Bolkiah Colombia 108 Alvaro Uribe Velez Bulgaria 73 Georgi Purvanov Comoros 110 Simeon Saxecoburggotski Col. Assoumani Azali Burkina Faso 76 Congo, Dem. Rep 112 Capt. Blaise Compaore Joseph Kabila Paramanga Ernest Yonli Congo, Rep 115 Burma Denis Sassou-Nguesso see Myanmar Isidore Mvouba Burundi 79 Costa Rica 118 Maj. Pierre Buyoya Abel Pacheco de la Espriella Cambodia 81 Cote d'lvoire 120 Sihanouk Laurent Gbagbo Hun Sen Pascal Affi N"Guessan Cameroon 86 Croatia 123 Paul Biya Stipe Mesic Peter Mafany Musonge Ivica Racan Canada 89 Cuba 126 Adrienne Clarkson Fidel Castro Ruz Jean Chretien Cyprus 129 Cape Verde 93 Glafcos Clerides Pedro Pires Rauf Denkta§ Jose Maria Neves Dervis; Eroglu Central African Republic 96 Czech Republic 134 Ange-Felix Patasse Vaclav Havel Martin Ziguele Vladimir Spidla Chad 99 Denmark 138 Idriss Deby Margrethe II Haroun Kabadi Anders Fogh Rasmussen Chile 101 Djibouti 141 Ricardo Lagos Escobar Ismail Omar Guelleh Dileita Mohamed Dileita Vlll Profiles of People in Power Dominica 144 Gambia 185 Vernon Shaw Col. (retd) Yahya Jamnieh Pierre Charles Georgia 187 Dominican Republic 146 Eduard Shevardnadze Hipolito Meji'a Domfnguez Avtandil Jorbenadze East Timor 148 Germany 191 Xanana Gusmao Johannes Rau Mari Alkatiri Gerhard Schroder Ecuador 152 Ghana 196 Gustavo Noboa Bejarano John Kufuor Lucio Gutierrez Borbiia Greece 198 Egypt 155 Costas Stephanopoulos Mohammed Hosni Mubarak Costas Simitis Atif Mohammad Obeid Grenada 201 El Salvador 158 Sir Daniel Williams Francisco Flores Perez Keith Mitchell Equatorial Guinea 160 Guatemala 204 Brig.-Gen. Teodoro Obiang Alfonso Portillo Cabrera Nguema Mbasogo Guinea 206 Candido Muatetema Rivas Maj.-Gen. Lansana Conte Eritrea 163 Lamine Sidime Issaias Afewerki Guinea-Bissau 209 Estonia 165 Kumba Yalla Arnold Riiiitel Mario Pires Siim Kallas Guyana 211 Ethiopia 167 Bharrat Jagdeo Lt. Gimia Wolde Giorgis Sam Hinds Meles Zenawi Haiti 214 Fiji 170 Jean-Bertrand Aristide Ratu Josefa Iloilo Yvon Neptune Laisenia Qarase Honduras 218 Finland 174 Ricardo Maduro Tarja Halonen Hungary 220 Paavo Lipponen Ferenc Madl France 177 Peter Medgyessy Jacques Chirac Iceland 224 Jean-Pierre Raffarin Olafur Ragnar Grimsson Gabon 182 David Oddsson Omar Bongo Jean-Frangois Ntoutoume-Emane IX Contents India 227 Korea, North 276 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Kim II Sung Atal Bihari Vajpayee Kim Yong Nam Kim Jong II Indonesia 232 Hong Song Nam Megawati Sukarnoputri Korea, South 282 Iran 235 Kim Dae Jung Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Roh Moo Hyun Mohammad Khatami Kim Suk Soo Iraq 239 Kuwait 288 Saddam Hussein Sheikh Jaber Ireland 243 Sheikh Saad Mary McAleese Kyrgyzstan 291 Bertie Ahern Askar Akayev Israel 247 Nikolay Tanayev Moshe Katsav Laos 294 Ariel Sharon Gen. Khamtay Siphandone Italy 252 Bounnyang Vorachit Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Latvia 297 Silvio Berlusconi Vaira Vike-Freiberga Ivory Coast Einars Repse see C6ted"Ivoire Lebanon 300 Jamaica 257 Gen. Emile Lahoud Sir Howard Cooke Rafiq al-Hariri Percival J. Patterson Lesotho 304 Japan 260 Letsie III Akihito Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili Junichiro Koizumi Liberia 307 Jordan 264 Charles Taylor Abdullah II Libya 309 Ali Abu al-Ragheb Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi Kazakhstan 267 Mubarak al-Shamikh Nursultan Nazarbayev Liechtenstein 313 Imangali Tasmagambetov Hans-Adam II Kenya 270 Otmar Hasler Mwai Kibaki Lithuania 315 Daniel arap Moi Valdas Adamkus Kiribati 274 Rolandas Paksas Teburoro Tiito Algirdas Brazauskas Profiles of People in Power Luxembourg 320 Monaco 357 Henri Rainier III Jean-Claude Juncker Patrick Leclercq Macedonia 323 Mongolia 359 Boris Trajkovski Natsagyn Bagabandi Branko Crvenkovski Nambariyn Enkhbayar Madagascar 326 Morocco 362 Marc Ravalomanana Mohammed VI Jacques Sylla Driss Jettou Malawi 329 Mozambique 365 Bakili Muluzi Joaquim Alberto Chissano Pascoal Mocumbi Malaysia 331 Syed Sirajuddin Myanmar 368 Mahathir Mohamed Senior Gen. Than Shwe Maldives 335 Namibia 370 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Sam Nujoma Theo-Ben Gurirab Mali 337 Amadou Toil man i Toure Nauru 373 Ahmed Mohamed Ag Hamani Rene Harris Bernard Dowiyogo Malta 339 Guido de Marco Nepal 375 Eddie Fenech Adami Gyanendra Lokendra Bahadur Chand Marshall Islands 342 Kessai Note Netherlands 378 Beatrix Mauritania 344 Jan Peter Balkenende Maaouya ould Sid' Ahmed Taya Cheikh el-Avia ould Mohamed New Zealand 380 Khouna Dame Silvia Cartwright Mauritius 347 Helen Clark Karl Offmann Nicaragua 384 Sir Anerood Jugnauth Enrique Bolanos Mexico 350 Niger 386 Vicente Fox Mamadou Tandja Micronesia 352 Hama Amadou Leo Falcam Nigeria 388 Moldova 354 Gen. (retd) Olusegun Obasanjo Vladimir Voronin Norway 390 Vasile Tarlev Harald V Kjell Magne Bondevik XI Contents Oman 393 St Kitts and Nevis 438 Qaboos Sir Cuthbert Sebastian Denzil Douglas Pakistan 395 Gen. Pervez Musharraf St Lucia 441 Mir Zafarullah Jamali Dame Pearlette Louisy Kenny D. Anthony Palau 399 Tommy Remengesau St Vincent and the Grenadines 444 Frederick Ballantyne Palestine 401 Ralph Gonsalves Yassir Arafat Samoa 447 Panama 405 Malietoa Tanumafili II Mireya Moscoso Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi Papua New Guinea 407 San Marino 449 Sir Silas Atopare Giuseppe Maria Morganti Sir Michael Somare Mauro Chiaruzzi Paraguay 410 S5o Tome and Principe 451 Luis Gonzalez Macchi Fradique de Menezes Peru 412 Maria das Neves Alejandro Toledo Saudi Arabia 454 Luis Solari Fahd Philippines 416 Senegal 456 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Abdoulaye Wade Poland 419 Idrissa Seek Aleksander Kwasniewski Serbia and Montenegro Leszek Miller see Yugoslavia Portugal 422 Seychelles 459 Jorge Sampaio France Albert Rene Jose Manuel Durao Barroso Sierra Leone 461 Qatar 425 Ahmed Tejan Kabbah Sheikh Hamad Sheikh Abdullah Singapore 463 Sellapan Rama Nathan Romania 427 Goh Chok Tong Ion Diescu Adrian Nastase Slovakia 466 Rudolf Schuster Russian Federation 431 Mikulas Dzurinda Vladimir Putin Mikhail Kasyanov Slovenia 470 Janez Dmovsek Rwanda 436 Anton Rop Maj.-Gen. Paul Kagame Bernard Makuza Xll Profiles of People in Power Solomon Islands 473 Thailand 516 Sir John Lapli Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) Sir Allan Kemakeza Thaksin Shinawatra Somalia 476 Togo 519 Abdulkassim Salat Hassan Gen. Gnassingbe Eyadema Hassan Abshir Farah Koffi Sama South Africa 478 Tonga 522 Thabo Mbeki Taufa"ahau Tupou IV Ulukalala Lavaka Ata Spain 481 Juan Carlos I Trinidad and Tobago 524 Jose Maria Aznar Lopez Arthur N. Robinson Patrick Manning Sri Lanka 485 Chandrika Bandaranaike Tunisia 527 Kumaratunga Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Ranil Wickremasinghe Mohammed Ghannouchi Sudan 490 Turkey 530 Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir Ahmet Necdet Sezer Suriname 492 Abdullah GUI Ronald Venetiaan Turkmenistan 533 Jules Ajodhia Saparmurad Niyazov Swaziland 495 Tuvalu 535 Mswati III Sir Tomasi Puapua Barnabas Sibusiso Dlarnini Saufatu Sopoanga Sweden 498 Uganda 538 Carl XVI Gustaf Yoweri Museveni Goran Persson Apollo Nsibambi Switzerland 501 Ukraine 541 Pascal Couchepin Leonid Kuchma Syria 503 Viktor Yanukovyeh Bashar al-Assad United Arab Emirates 545 Mohammad Mustafa Miro Sheikh Zayed Taiwan 506 Sheikh Maktoum Chen Shui-bian United Kingdom 548 Yu Shyi-kun Elizabeth II Tajikistan 510 Tony Blair Imomali Rakhmanov United States 554 Akil Akilov George W. Bush Tanzania 513 Uruguay 558 Benjamin Mkapa Jorge Batlle Ibatiez Frederick Tluway Sumaye Xlll Contents Uzbekistan 560 Yugoslavia .579 Islam Karimov Vojislav Kostunica Utkur Sultanov Dragisa Pesic Natasa Micic Vanuatu 563 Zoran Djindic Fr John Bani Filip Vujanovic Edward Natapei Milo Djukanovic Vatican City 565 John Paul II Zambia .588 Cardinal Angelo Sodano Levy Mwanawasa Venezuela 569 Zimbabwe .590 Col. (retd) Hugo Chavez Frfas Robert Mugabe Vietnam 572 Tran Due Luong Appendix: Contact Details 595 Phan Van Khai Nong Due Manh Index: Dates of Taking Power ..623 Yemen 576 Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh Index: Personal Names 631 Abd al-Qadir Bajammal Index: Types of Regime 634 xiv.
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