Leaders Gather in Jordan
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A partial list of world leaders and others who traveled to Jordan to pay respects to the king.
Arab League--Secretary-General Ahmad Esmat Abdel Meguid
Austria--President Thomas Klestil
Bahrain--Emir Sheik Isa ibn Salman Khalifa; Prime Minister Sheik Khalifa ibn Salman Khalifa
Belgium--King Albert II and Queen Paola
Britain--Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair
Canada--Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy
Cyprus--President Glafcos Clerides
Denmark--Prince Henrik and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Egypt--President Hosni Mubarak
France--President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette
Germany--Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
Greece--President Costis Stephanopoulos
India--Vice President Krishnan Kant
Ireland--President Mary McAleese
Iraq--Vice President Taha Muhyi Maruf
Israel--President Ezer Weizman; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; former Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir; Leah Rabin, widow of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon; opposition Labor Party leader Ehud Barak
Italy--President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Japan--Crown Prince Naruhito; Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
Kuwait--Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheik Saad al Abdullah al Sabah
Lebanon--Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Michel Murr
Oman--Sultan Kaboos ibn Said
Pakistan--Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Palestinian Authority--President Yasser Arafat
Russia--An ailing President Boris N. Yeltsin defied doctors to attend.
Saudi Arabia--Crown Prince Abdullah
South Africa--Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi
South Korea--Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil
Spain--King Juan Carlos I and family
Sudan--President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir
Switzerland--Defense Minister and Vice President Adolf Ogi
Turkey--President Suleyman Demirel; Foreign Minister Ismail Cem
United Nations--Secretary-General Kofi Annan
United States--President Clinton and wife Hillary Rodham Clinton will head large U.S. delegation, including former Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush; Najeeb and Doris Halaby, parents of Queen Noor
Yemen--President Ali Abdullah Saleh
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