Note to the Secretary-General Luncheon hosted by you on the occasion of thdfBpecial Session on Children Thursday. 20 Septerrf Guests You will recall your decision to have a different format for this lunch i.e., to include Heads of State/Government, Vice Presidents and Crown Princes with their spouses, as well as top level leaders of civil society and private sector. I am enclosing Protocol's proposed list for your approval. This means that no other Head of Delegation will be invited, which is following the format used for the Millennium Summit lunch. Protocol has been explaining to delegations that Ministers and other Heads of Delegations will be offered a lunch by you the following week for the General Debate. Nevertheless, it is the first time that you are including dignitaries from civil society and the private sector to a lunch of Heads of State/Government. The list of 45 to 50 people from the civil society and private sector has been carefully constructed with UNICEF and Protocol. This means that given the total number of Heads of State/Government and spouses expected (probably close to 150), we will not be able to include the spouses of other non-government people. Cases such as Melinda Gates, Grafa Machel and Julie Belafonte are justified in their own right. We may need to include an exception, in case you wish to invite your Messenger for Peace Mohammed Ali, (he needs his daughter's assistance to move around). This will also mean that we will need to keep the number of UN Senior Staff to a minimum, also without spouses. We will need to keep some slots for heads of organizations such as WHO, World Bank and OAU, etc., in case they confirm their participation. Protocol can accommodate a maximum of 240 people, although they would prefer the total number to be kept at 220. Speakers You have invited Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates (letters to confirm this are being sent out) to be keynote speakers at the lunch. It is proposed that a Master of Ceremonies conducts the event introducing each speaker (Mandela followed by Gates) and inviting you to close with your remarks. Would you approve this order and would you want maybe Shashi Tharoor to officiate as Master of Ceremonies? MartaMat 17 August 2001 cc: Mr. Riza Mr. Stoby Ms. Younes Protocol and Liaison 17 August 2001 Guest list for the luncheon hosted by the Secretary-General in honour of the Heads of State and Government attending the twenty-seventh special session of the General Assembly on Children on Thursday, 20 September 2001 - 1:15 pm - North Lounge yes Hosts: The Secretary-General and Mrs. Nane Annan Guests of honour Heads of State yes Albania: H.E. Mr. Rexhep Meidani and Mrs. Lidra Meidani (HS + spouse) Algeria: H.E. Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika (HS) Azerbaijan: H.E. Mr. Heydar Alirza ogly Aliyev (HS) yes Bahrain: Her Highness Shaikha Sabika Bent Ibrahim Al-Khalifa (First Lady - Head of delegation) Benin: H.E. Mr. Mathieu Kerekou and spouse (HS) yes Bolivia: H.E. Mr. Jorge Quiroga Ramirez and Mrs. Ginger de Quiroga Ramirez (HS + spouse) Botswana: H.E. Mr. Festus G. Mogae and spouse (HS) Bulgaria: H.E. Mr. Petar Stoyanov and spouse (HS) Burkina Faso: H.E. Mr. Blaise Compaore and spouse (HS) Burundi: H.E. Major Pierre Buyoya and spouse (HS) Cameroon: H.E. Mr. Paul Biya and spouse (HS) Chile: Mrs. Luisa Duran de Lagos (First Lady - Head of delegation) Colombia: H.E. Mr. Andres Pastrana Arango and spouse (HS) Comoros: H.E. Colonel Azali Assoumani and spouse (HS) Congo: H.E. Mr. Denis Sassou Nguesso and spouse (HS) yes Costa Rica: H.E. Mr. Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria and Mrs. Lorena Clare de Rodriguez (HS+spouse) Cote d'lvoire: H.E. Mr. Laurent Gbagbo and spouse (HS) yes Croatia: H.E. Mr. Stjepan Mesic and Mrs. Milka Mesic (HS + spouse) yes Egypt: Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak (First Lady - Head of delegation) El Salvador: H.E. Mr. Francisco Guillermo Flores Perez and spouse (HS) Eq. Guinea: H.E. Mr. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and spouse (HS) yes Finland: Her Excellency Ms. Tarja Halonen and Mr. Pentti Arajarvi (HS + spouse) France: H.E. Mr. Jacques Chirac and spouse (HS) Gabon: H.E. El Hadj Omar Bongo and spouse (HS) yes Gambia: H.E. Al Hadji Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh and Mrs. Zineb Yahya Jammeh (HS + spouse) Georgia: H.E. Mr. Eduard A. Shevardnadze and spouse (HS) Ghana: H.E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor and spouse (HS) yes Guatemala: H.E. Mr. Alfonso Portillo Cabrera and Mrs. Evelyn de Portillo (HS + spouse) Haiti: H.E. Mr. Jean Bertrand Aristide and spouse (HS) Honduras: H.E. Mr. Carlos Roberto Flores Facusse and spouse (HS) Jordan: His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein and spouse (HS) Heads of State [continued] yes Kenya: H.E. The Hon. Daniel T. arap Moi, CGH (HS) Lebanon: H.E. Mr. Emile Lahoud and spouse (HS) yes Lesotho: His Majesty King Letsie III (HS) Maldives: H.E. Mr. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and spouse (HS) Mali: H.E. Mr. Alpha Oumar Konare and spouse (HS) Mexico: H.E. Mr. Vicente Fox and spouse (HS) Morocco: His Majesty King Mohammed VI (HS) Mozambique: H.E. Mr. Joaquim Alberto Chissano and spouse (HS) Nigeria: H.E. Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo and spouse (HS) yes Pakistan: H.E. General Pervez Musharraf and Mrs. Sehba Musharraf (HS + spouse) Panama: Her Excellency Mrs. Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodriguez (HS) no Rep. of Korea: H.E. Mr. Kim Dae-jung and spouse (HS) (They arrive in NY on 20.9.01 in the afternoon) yes Romania: H.E. Mr. Ion Iliescu (HS) Rwanda: H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame and spouse (HS) Saint Lucia: Her Excellency Ms. Calliopa Pearlette Louisy (Governor-General) Senegal: H.E. Mr. Abdoulaye Wade and spouse (HS) yes Sierra Leone: H.E. Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (HS) Slovenia: H.E. Mr. Milan Kucan and spouse (HS) South Africa: H.E. Mr. Thabo Mbeki and spouse (HS) Sri Lanka: Her Excellency The Hon. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (HS) Sudan: H.E. Lt. General Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir and spouse (HS) Suriname: H.E. Mr. Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan and spouse (HS) Swaziland: His Majesty King Mswati III and spouse (HS) TFYR of Macedonia: H.E. Mr. Boris Trajkovski and spouse (HS) Uganda: H.E. Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and spouse (HS) Ukraine: H.E. Mr. Leonid D. Kuchma and spouse (HS) UR of Tanzania: H.E. Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa and spouse (HS) yes Venezuela: Mrs. Marisabel Rodriguez de Chavez (First Lady - President is arriving 20.9.01 late evening) Yugoslavia: H.E. Mr. Vojislav Kostunica and spouse (HS) Zimbabwe: H.E. Mr. Robert G. Mugabe and spouse (HS) Vice-Presidents Uruguay: yes Viet Nam: Her Excellency Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh (VP) Crown Princes yes Bhutan: His Royal Highness Dasho Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck yes Monaco: His Serene Highness Crown Prince Albert of Monaco Heads of Government Andorra: H.E. Mr. Marc Forne Molne and spouse (HG) Antigua and Barbuda: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Lester B. Bird and spouse (HG) Austria: H.E. Dr. Wolfgang Schussel and spouse (HG) Canada: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien and spouse (HG) Djibouti: H.E. Mr. Barkat Gourad Hamadou and spouse (HG) Jamaica: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Percival James Patterson, PC, QC (HG) Liechtenstein: H.E. Mr. Otmar Hasler and spouse (HG) Mauritius: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Sir Anerood Jugnauth, PC, KCMG, QC (HG) yes Mongolia: H.E. Mr. Nambar Enkhbayar and Mrs. Tsolmon Enkhbayar HG + spouse) Nepal: H.E. The Rt. Hon. Sher Bahadur Deuba (HG) yes Niger: H.E. Mr. Hama Amadou (HG) Portugal: H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres and spouse (HG) Saint Kitts+Nevis: H.E. The Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas (HG) Sweden: H.E. Mr. Goran Persson and spouse (HG) Trinidad and Tobago: H.E. The Hon. Basdeo Panday and spouse (HG) Tuvalu: H.E. The Hon. Faimalaga Luka (HG) President of the GA: H.E. Mr. Han Seung-soo (Republic of Korea) Deputy Secretary-General: Ms. Louise Frechette Pres. of the Security Council: France* Pres. of ECOSOC: H.E. Mr. Martin Belinga-Eboutou (Cameroon) Goodwill Ambassadors (6) Mr. Harry Belafonte and Mrs. Julie Belafonte Mr. Roger Moore Mr. Peter Ustinov Mr. Mohammad Ali and his daughter * already included Corporate Leaders (maximum 8) Mr. Bill Gates and Mrs. Melinda Gates Mr. John Pepper (Chairman, Procter and Gamble) (Attendance to UNGASS to be confirmed) Mr. Steven Hilton (President, The Hilton Foundation) Mr. John Morgridge (Chairman, Cisco Systems) Mr. Tim Wirth (President, United Nations Foundation) Mr. Eduardo Gonzales Castillo (CEO, Bancafe) Mr. Jorma Ollila (Chairman and CEO, Nokia Corporation) (Attendance to UNGASS to be confirmed) Mr. Juergen Dormann (CEO Aventis) (Attendance to UNGASS to be confirmed) Mr. Thomas Wellauer (CEO, Credit Suisse) (Attendance to UNGASS to be confirmed) Mr. Azim Premjie (CEO Wipro, India) (Attendance to UNGASS to be confirmed) Leaders in Civil Society (4^> Mr. Nelson Mandela and Mrs. Graca Machel His Royal Highness Prince Talal Ben Abdul Aziz (President, Arab Gulf Programme for the United Nations) Mr. Belisario Betancur (former President of Colombia) or Ms. Angeles Mastretta (Mexico) Inter-Parliamentary Union Mrs. Najma Heptulla (President) Non-Governmental Organizations (9) Mr. Mike Aaronson (International Save the Children Alliance) Mr. John Greensmith (Plan International) Mr. Dean Hirsch (World Vision International) Mr. David Morrison (Netaid) Dr. Fazle Hasen Abed (Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) Mr. Richard D. King (President, Rotary International) Mr. Alex A. "Bo" Shafer, Jr. (International President, Kiwanis International) Ms. Rita Venkatasawmy (Centre d'Education des Enfants Mauriciens (CEDEM), Mauritius) Ms.