ASSASSINATION AFTERMATH : Dignitaries
More than 40 past and present world leaders will attend the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today. They include:
* President Clinton
* Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating
* Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky
* British Prime Minister John Major, Prince Charles
* Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev
* Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
* Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
* Dutch Queen Beatrix, Prime Minister Wim Kok
* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
* Estonian President Lennart Meri
* French President Jacques Chirac
* German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Roman Herzog
* Georgian leader Eduard A. Shevardnadze
* Icelandic Prime Minister David Oddsson
* Irish Prime Minister John Bruton
* Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini
* Jordan’s King Hussein
* Lithuanian Prime Minister Adolfas Slezevicius
* Moldovan President Mircea I. Snegur
* Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy
* Portuguese President Mario Soares
* Russian Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin
* Slovenian President Milan Kucan
* South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hong Koo
* Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, also representing the European Union
* Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson
* Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller
* Ukrainian President Leonid D. Kuchma
* U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher
* Former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush
* Former U.S. Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Henry A. Kissinger
* U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
* UNESCO Director General Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Source: Times wires
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