Arafat's funeral: List of world leaders and dignitaries to attend

CAIRO - Egypt will host a military funeral for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday before he is buried in the West Bank, officials said.


The following is an updated list of world leaders and dignitaries who are expected to attend the funeral:

NEW ZEALAND - NZ Ambassador to Turkey Jan Henderson


AFGHANISTAN - Vice President Hedayat Amin Arsala

ALGERIA - President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

ARAB LEAGUE - Secretary-General Amr Moussa

AUSTRIA - Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach

BANGLADESH - President Iajuddin Ahmed

BELGIUM - Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, Development and Foreign Aid Minister Armand De Decker

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Prime Minister Adnan Terzic

BRAZIL - Cabinet Chief Jose Dirceu

BULGARIA - Vice President Angel Marin

CANADA - Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew

CHINA - Vice Premier Hui Liangyu

CROATIA - Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul

CYPRUS - Foreign Minister George Iakovou, Presidential envoy Vassos Lyssarides

CZECH REPUBLIC - Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda

DENMARK - Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller

EGYPT - President Hosni Mubarak

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Development and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner-designate Louis Michel

EUROPEAN UNION - Foreign policy chief Javier Solana

FINLAND - Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja

FRANCE - Foreign Minister Michel Barnier

GERMANY - Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer

GREECE - Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis

HUNGARY - Foreign Minister Ferenc Somogyi

INDIA - Minister of State for External Affairs Edappakath Ahamed

INDONESIA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

IRAN - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi

IRAQ - Vice President Rowsch Shways

IRELAND - Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern

ITALY - Speaker of the Senate, Marcello Pera, Agriculture Minister Giovanni Alemanno and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Alfredo Mantica

JORDAN - King Abdullah

KUWAIT - Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah

LEBANON - President Gen. Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud

LUXEMBOURG - Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jean Asselborn

MOROCCO - Prince Moulay Rachid, King Mohammed's younger brother

NETHERLANDS - Foreign Minister Bernard Bot

NORWAY - Foreign Minister Jan Petersen

PAKISTAN - Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz

POLAND - Senate Speaker Longin Pastusiak, Deputy Foreign Minister Boguslaw Zaleski

PORTUGAL - Foreign Minister Antonio Monteiro

ROMANIA - Presidential adviser Simona Miculescu

RUSSIA - State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov

SLOVAKIA - Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan

SLOVENIA - Foreign Minister Ivo Vajgl

SOMALIA - President Abdullahi Yusuf

SOUTH AFRICA - President Thabo Mbeki

SOUTH KOREA - Former Foreign Minister Yoon Young-Kwan

SPAIN - Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos

SUDAN - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir

SWEDEN - Prime Minister Goran Persson

SWITZERLAND - Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey

TANZANIA - Vice-President Mohammed Ali Shein

TUNISIA - President Zine el-Abdine Ben Ali

TURKEY - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Speaker of the Federal National Council Mohammed Saeed al Kindi, Minister of Supreme Council Affairs Sheikh Fahim bin Sultan al-Qassimi, Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan and his brother Sheikh Dhiyab, both are brothers of President Sheikh Khalifa

UNITED KINGDOM - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw

UNITED NATIONS - Special representative for the Middle East peace process Terje Roed-Larsen

UNITED STATES - Assistant Secretary of State William Burns

YEMEN - President Ali Abdullah Saleh

ZIMBABWE - President Robert Mugabe


- REUTERS