List of delegates to the Millennium Summit

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The Millennium Summit was a meeting among several world leaders that took place from September 6 to September 8, 2000 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City in order to discuss the role of the United Nations in the turn of the 21st century. Over 150 heads of state, heads of government, crown princes, vice presidents, deputy prime ministers, and other delegates attented, making this summit the largest gathering of world leaders as of the year 2000.

The Millennium Summit was hosted by the United States and jointly presided over by President of Finland Tarja Halonen and President of Namibia Sam Nujoma.

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[edit] Delegations

Delegates to the Millennium Summit
Country Delegate Title Notes
Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani Head of state
Albania Rexhep Meidani Head of state
Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika Head of state
Andorra Marc Forné Molné Head of government
Angola João Bernardo de Miranda Minister
Antigua and Barbuda Lester Bird Head of government
Argentina Fernando de la Rúa Head of state
Armenia Robert Kocharian Head of state
Australia John Howard Head of government
Austria Thomas Klestil Head of state
Azerbaijan Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev Head of state
Bahamas Orville Turnquest Head of state
Bahrain Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah Minister
Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Head of government
Barbados Billie Miller Deputy prime minister
Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka Head of state
Belgium Guy Verhofstadt Head of government
Belize Said Musa Head of government
Benin Mathieu Kérékou Head of state
Bhutan Sangay Ngedup Head of government
Bolivia Hugo Banzer Suárez Head of state
Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic Head of state
Botswana Festus G. Mogae Head of state
Brazil Marco Maciel Vice president
Brunei Darussalam Hassanal Bolkiah Head of state
Bulgaria Petar Stoyanov Head of state
Burkina Faso Michel Kafando Chairperson of delegation
Burundi Severin Ntahomvukiye Minister
Cambodia Hun Sen Head of government
Cameroon Paul Biya Head of state
Canada Jean Chrétien Head of government
Cape Verde Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro Head of state
Central African Republic Marcel Metefara Minister
Chad Nagoum Yamassoum Head of government
Chile Ricardo Lagos Escobar Head of state
China Jiang Zemin Head of state
Colombia Andrés Pastrana Arango Head of state
Comoros Azali Assoumani Head of state
Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso Head of state
Democratic Republic of the Congo Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi Minister
Costa Rica Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría Head of state
Côte d’Ivoire Côte d’Ivoire Minister
Croatia Stjepan Mesic Head of state
Cuba Fidel Castro Ruz Head of state
Cyprus Glafcos Clerides Head of state
Czech Republic Václav Havel Head of state
Denmark Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Head of government
Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh Head of state
Dominica Roosevelt Douglas Head of government
Dominican Republic Hipólito Mejía Domínguez Head of state
Ecuador Gustavo Noboa Bejarano Head of state
Egypt Amr Moussa Minister
El Salvador Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez Head of state
Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Head of state
Eritrea Isaias Afwerki Head of state
Estonia Mart Siimann Head of government
Ethiopia Meles Zenawi Head of government
Finland Tarja Halonen Head of state Co-Chair of the Summit
France Jacques Chirac Head of state
Gabon El Hadj Omar Bongo Head of state
Gambia Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh Head of state
Georgia Eduard A. Shevardnadze Head of state
Germany Gerhard Schroeder Head of government
Ghana Jerry John Rawlings Head of state
Greece Costas Simitis Head of government
Grenada Keith Mitchell Head of government
Guatemala Alfonso Portillo Cabrera Head of state
Guinea Lamine Sidimé Head of government
Guinea Bissau Kumba Yalá Head of state
Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo Head of state
Haiti René Préval Head of state
Holy See Angelo Cardinal Sodano Highest ranking official
Honduras Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé Head of state
Hungary Ferenc Mádl Head of state
Iceland David Oddsson Head of government
India Atal Behari Vajpayee Head of government
Indonesia K. H. Abdurrahman Wahid Head of state
Iran Seyed Mohammad Khatami Head of state
Iraq Tariq Aziz Deputy prime minister
Ireland Bertie Ahern Head of government
Israel Ehud Barak Head of government
Italy Giuliano Amato Head of government
Jamaica James Patterson Head of government
Japan Yoshiro Mori Head of government
Jordan Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein Head of state
Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Head of state
Kenya Daniel arap Moi Head of state
Kiribati Teburoro Tito Head of state
Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Yong Nam Head of state Did not attend - see below
Republic of Korea Kim Dae-jung Head of state
Kuwait Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Minister
Kyrgyzstan Muratbek Imanaliyev Minister
Lao People's Democratic Republic Tariq Aziz Deputy prime minister
Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga Head of state
Lebanon Sélim Tadmoury Chairperson of delegation
Lesotho Pakalitha Mosisili Head of government
Liberia Monie Captan Minister
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Abdel Rahman Shalgham Minister
Liechtenstein Mario Frick Head of Governmet
Lithuania Valdas Adamkus Head of state
Luxembourg Mme. Lydie Polfer Deputy prime minister
Macedonia Boris Trajkovski Head of state
Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka Head of state
Malawi Bakili Muluzi Head of state
Malaysia Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar Minister
Maldives Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Head of state
Mali Alpha Oumar Konaré Head of state
Malta Edward Fenech Adami Head of government
Marshall Islands Kessai Note Head of state
Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya Head of state
Mauritius Anund P. Neewoor Chairperson of delegation
Mexico Ernesto Zedillo Head of state
Micronesia Leo A. Falcam Head of state
Republic of Moldova Petru Lucinschi Head of state
Monaco Albert II Crown prince
Mongolia Natsagiyn Bagabandi Head of state
Morocco Moulay Rachid Crown prince
Mozambique Joaquim Alberto Chissano Head of state
Myanmar Win Aung Minister
Namibia Sam Nujoma Head of state Co-Chair of the Summit
Nauru Bernard Dowiyogo Head of state
Nepal Girija Prasad Koirala Head of government
Netherlands Wim Kok Head of government
New Zealand Helen Clark Head of government
Nicaragua Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo Head of state
Niger Nassirou Sabo Minister
Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo Head of state
Norway Harald V Head of state
Oman Sayyid Faisal Bin Ali Bin Faisal Al-Said Minister
Pakistan Pervez Musharraf Head of government
Palau Hersey Kyota Chairperson of delegation
Palestine Yasser Arafat Highest ranking official
Panama Arturo Vallarino Vice president
Papua New Guinea Mekere Morauta Head of government
Paraguay Julio César Franco Vice president
Peru Alberto Fujimori Head of state
Philippines Joseph Estrada Head of state
Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski Head of state
Portugal Antonio Guterres Head of government
Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Head of state
Romania Emil Constantinescu Head of state
Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin Head of state
Rwanda Paul Kagame Head of state
Saint Lucia Kenny Anthony Head of government
Saint Kitts and Nevis Denzil Douglas Head of government
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Charles Antrobus Head of state
Samoa Tuiloma Neroni Slade Chairperson of delegation
San Marino Maria Domenica Michelotti
Gian Marco Marcucci
Heads of state
Sao Tome and Principe Miguel Trovoada Head of state
Saudi Arabia Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Crown prince
Senegal Abdoulaye Wade Head of state
Seychelles Claude Morel Chairperson of delegation
Sierra Leone Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Head of state
Singapore Goh Chok Tong Head of government
Slovakia Mikuláš Dzurinda Head of government
Slovenia Milan Kucan Head of state
Solomon Islands Jeremiah Manele Chairperson of delegation
Somalia Abdiqasim Salad Hassan Head of state
South Africa Thabo Mbeki Head of state
Spain José María Aznar Head of government
Sri Lanka Lakshman Kadirgamar Minister
Sudan Omar al-Bashir Head of state
Suriname Jules Ajodhia Vice president
Swaziland Mswati III Head of state
Sweden Göran Persson Head of government
Switzerland Adolf Ogi Highest ranking official
Syrian Arab Republic Farouk Al-Shara' Minister
United Republic of Tanzania Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Minister
Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov Head of state
Thailand Surin Pitsuwan Minister
Togo Gnassingbé Eyadéma Head of state
Tonga 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata Head of government
Trinidad and Tobago Basdeo Panday Head of government
Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Head of state
Turkey Ahmet Necdet Sezer Head of state
Turkmenistan Batyr Berdyev Minister
Tuvalu Ionatana Ionatana Head of government
Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Head of state
Ukraine Leonid Kuchma Head of state
United Arab Emirates Shaikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi Vice president
United Kingdom Tony Blair Head of government
United States William J. Clinton Head of state Host Country of the Summit
Uruguay Jorge Batlle Ibáñez Head of state
Uzbekistan Islam A. Karimov Head of state
Vanuatu Barak Sopé Head of government
Venezuela Hugo Chávez Frías Head of state
Vietnam Tran Duc Luong Head of state
Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh Head of state
Zambia Frederick Chiluba Head of state
Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe Head of state
Kofi Annan United Nations Secretary-General

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[edit] Co-chairs as Finland and Namibia

The President of Finland Tarja Halonen and the President of Namibia Sam Nujoma co-chaired the Millenium Summit. This was due to the Presidency over the General Assembly of Theo-Ben Gurirab in the fifty-fourth session and that of Harri Holkeri in the fifty-fifth session. Therefore, the Heads of state of Finland and Namibia were chosen to preside over the summit.[3]

[edit] Delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Kim Yong Nam, Head of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, cancelled his visit to the Millennium Summit after an incident at an airport in Frankfurt, Germany. He and his fellow diplomats were subjected to inspection by American Airlines officials. The diplomats claimed diplomatic immunity, which can free them from any law enforcement while visiting other countries.[4][5]

[edit] Delegation of Tuvalu

Tuvalu was admitted to the United Nations the day before the Millennium Summit began, on September 5, 2000. This country was accepted as the 189th member of the United Nations, signifying Tuvalu's major development since its independence in 1978.[6]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ List of participants at General Assembly's Millennium Summit, 6-8 September (HTML) (2000-09-05). Retrieved on February 7, 2007.
  2. ^ Millennium Summit Group Photo - List of Participants (HTM). Retrieved on February 9, 2007.
  3. ^ Nujoma, Sam. "Statement by H.E. Dr. Sam Nujoma, President of the Republic of Namibia in his capacity as co-chairman of the Millennium Summit on the occasion of the official opening of the Millennium Summit" United Nations Headquarters, New York City, New York (2000-09-06). Retrieved on 2007-02-19
  4. ^ United Nations Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2000-09-05). SG/SM/7531 - Secretary-General regrets decision by Democratic People's Republic of Korea not to attend Millennium Summit following airport incident (in English). Press release. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
  5. ^ Garrett. "North Korea complains of rude treatment, cancels trip to U.N. Millennium Summit", CNN.com, 2000-09-06. Retrieved on February 15, 2007. (in English)
  6. ^ Millennium Assembly elects Harri Holkeri (Finland) President, Admits Tuvalu as 189th United Nations Member State (English). Science Blog (2000-09-05). Retrieved on February 16, 2007.

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