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AFGHANISTAN President Hamid Karzai

ALBANIA

President Alfred Moisiu, former presidents Sali Berisha and Rexhep Meidani, Prime Minister Fatos Nano

ARGENTINA

Vice President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa

ARMENIA

Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan

AUSTRALIA

Governor-General Michael Jeffery, who represents Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as Australia’s head of state

AUSTRIA

President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel

AZERBAIJAN

Prime Minister Artur Rasizade

BANGLADESH

Food and Disaster Management Minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf

BELGIUM

King Albert II and Queen Paola, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt

BENIN

Foreign Minister Rogatien Biaou

BOSNIA

Chairman of the state presidency, Borisav Paravac

BOLIVIA

President Carlos Mesa

BRAZIL

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

BRITAIN

Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair

BULGARIA

President Georgi Parvanov

CAMEROON

President Paul Biya, Minister of External Relations Laurent Esso

CANADA

Prime Minister Paul Martin

CHILE

Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker. President Ricardo Lagos cannot attend as his 108-year-old mother is very ill.

COLOMBIA

Vice President Francisco Santos

COSTA RICA

President Abel Pacheco, Deputy Foreign Minister Marco Vinicio Vargas

CROATIA

President Stjepan Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader

CUBA

National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon

CYPRUS

President Tassos Papadopoulos

CZECH REPUBLIC

President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda

DENMARK

Queen Margrethe II and Prince Consort Henrik, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

President Joseph Kabila, Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba

ECUADOR

President Lucio Gutierrez or Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda

EGYPT

Culture Minister Farouk Hosni

EL SALVADOR

Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez

ESTONIA

President Arnold Ruutel

EUROPEAN UNION

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Hubner, Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini and External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner. Also European Parliament president Josep Borrel

FINLAND

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen

FRANCE

President Jacques Chirac

GEORGIA

Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili

GERMANY

President Horst Koehler, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder

GREECE

President Karolos Papoulias

GUATEMALA

President Oscar Berger, Foreign Minister Jorge Briz Abularach

HONDURAS

President Ricardo Maduro

HUNGARY

President Ferenc Madl, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, opposition leader Viktor Orban

INDIA

Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

INDONESIA

Social Welfare Minister Alwi Shihab, Religious Affairs Minister Maftuh Basyuni

IRAN

President Mohammad Khatami

IRELAND

President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern

ISRAEL

President Moshe Katsav, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom

ITALY

President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

JAPAN

Former foreign minister Yoriko Kawaguchi

JORDAN

King Abdullah

KENYA

Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere, Local Government Minister Musikari Kombo

KOSOVO

President Ibrahim Rugova

LATVIA

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga

LEBANON

President Emile Lahoud (Maronite Christian), Prime Minister Omar Karami (Sunni Muslim) and parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri (Shi’ite Muslim)

LITHUANIA

President Valdas Adamkus

LUXEMBOURG

Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker

MACEDONIA

President Branko Crvenkovski

MADAGASCAR

President Marc Ravolomanana, Foreign Affairs Minister Marcel Ranjeva

MALAYSIA

Bernard Dompok, minister in charge of the civil service, Abdullah Mohamad Zin, minister in charge of religious affairs

MAURITANIA

Foreign Minister Mohamed Vall Ould Bellal

MEXICO

President Vicente Fox

MONTENEGRO

President Filip Vujanovic

MOZAMBIQUE

President Armando Guebuza

NICARAGUA

President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera

NIGERIA

President Olusegun Obasanjo

NETHERLANDS

Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende

NEW ZEALAND

Governor-General Silvia Cartwright

NORWAY

Queen Sonja, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik (King Harald is in hospital recovering from heart surgery)

PAKISTAN

Religious Affairs Minister Mohammad Ejaz ul Haq

PALESTINIANS

Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie

PANAMA

President Martin Torrijos, Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis

PARAGUAY

Vice President Luis Castiglioni and Minister of Education and Culture Blanca Ovelar

PERU

Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez, President of Peru’s Congress Antero Flores, Justice Minister Eduardo Salhuana

PHILIPPINES

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

POLAND

President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Lech Walesa and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland’s first post-communist president and prime minister

PORTUGAL

President Jorge Sampaio

ROMANIA

President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu

RUSSIA

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov

RWANDA

Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Murigande

SENEGAL

President Abdoulaye Wade

SERBIA

President Boris Tadic

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

President Svetozar Marovic

SEYCHELLES

President James Michel

SIERRA LEONE

Foday Seasay, ambassador to Germany

SINGAPORE

Deputy Prime Minister Professor S. Jayakumar

SLOVAKIA

President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky

SLOVENIA

President Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel. Rupel will represent the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

SPAIN

King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

SOUTH AFRICA

Deputy President Jacob Zuma

SOUTH KOREA

Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan

SRI LANKA

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse

SWEDEN

King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia

SYRIA

President Bashar al-Assad

TAIWAN

President Chen Shui-bian

TANZANIA

Markets and Cooperatives Minister George Kahama

TURKEY

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan

UGANDA

Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya, the most senior Catholic in its government; Henry Okello Oryem, minister of state for international affairs.

UKRAINE

President Viktor Yushchenko

UNITED NATIONS

Secretary-General Kofi Annan

UNITED STATES

President George W. Bush, former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

URUGUAY

Maria Auxiliadora Delgado, the wife of the president, and son Alvaro Vazquez

VENEZUELA

Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez

RELIGIOUS LEADERS

Metropolitan Kirill, head of external relations for the Moscow Patriarchate (Patriarch Alexiy II -- who repeatedly refused to meet the Pope -- will not attend); Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I; Spiritual head of the Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams; Chief Rabbinate Director-General Oded Viner; Greek Orthodox leader, Archbishop Christodoulos; Head of Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicos Garegin II; Turkey's Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II; Metropolitan of Abkhazia Daniel Datuashvili; Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir; Romania's Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist; Bulgaria's Orthodox Rousse Bishop Neofit and Vidin Bishop Domitian; Norwegian Bishop Finn Wagle of the Protestant state church; Swedish Lutheran archbishop, K.G. Hammar; Albanian religious leaders: Selim Muca of the (Sunni) Muslim community, Rrok Mirdita, the Catholic Archbishop, Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi of the (Shi'ite) Bektashi Muslim sect and Orthodox Archbishop Anastasios of the Orthodox community; Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abune Paulos

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