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LIST OF POLITICAL DELEGATIONS AT THE 2008 OLYMPICS AND PARALYMPICS EVENTS
08.08.2008 - 17.09.2008 Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai African Union – Commission President Alpha Oumar Konaré Algeria – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Albania – Prime Minister Sali Berisha and wife, Sport Minister Yili Pango Andorra – Head of Government Albert Pintat Santolària and wifeAngola – President José Eduardo dos Santos and wifeArab League – Ministerial Envoy Samir Hosny Armenia – President Serzh Sargsyan ASEAN – Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan Australia – Governor General Michael Jeffrey , Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and wife Thérèse Rein Austria – Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer Azerbaijan – President Ilham Aliyev and wife Mehriban Aliyeva Bahamas – Governor General Arthur Foulkes Bahrain – Crown Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa Bangladesh – Chief of Army Staff, General Moeen U Ahmed Belarus – President Alexander Lukashenko Belgium – The Duke of Brabant and Prime Minister Yves Leterme Bhutan – King Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Bosnia and Herzegovina – President Haris Silajdzic Brazil – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Brunei – Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Foreign Minister Lim Jock Seng Bulgaria – President Georgi Parvanov Burundi – President Pierre Nkurunziza Cambodia – King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen Cameroon – Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni Canada – Foreign Minister David Emerson , Minister of State Helena Guergis , and Premier of British Columbia Province Gordon Campbell Chad – Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas China (host) – President Hu Jintao and wife Liu Yongqing , Premier Wen Jiabao and wife Zhang Peili , Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing , State Councillor Dai Bingguo , Vice President Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan , former president Jiang Zemin , former premiers Li Peng and Zhu Rongji , Future Prime Minister Li Keqiang and all prominent Chinese politiciansCGF – Federal Secretary Louise Martin Chinese Taipei – Former Minister of the Interior Wu Po-hsiung , former Vice President Lien Chan , former Governor of Taiwan Province James Soong CIS – Secretary General Sergei Lebedev Democratic Republic of the Congo – President Joseph Kabila Congo – President Denis Sassou Nguesso Cook Islands – Head of State Sir Frederick Goodwin and wifeCroatia – President Stjepan Mesić and spouseCuba – Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel Cyprus – President Demetris Christofias and wifeCzech Republic – Former President Vaclav Havel Denmark – Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark , Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen Djibouti – Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Equatorial Guinea – Prime Minister Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo European Union – Union’s High Commissioner Louis Michel Estonia – Vice President Toomas Henrik Ilves Ethiopia – Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Fiji – Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama and wifeFinland – Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen France – President Nicolas Sarkozy and son Louis, foreign minister Bernard Accoyer , and former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin Gabon – President Omar Bongo Gambia – President Yahya Jammeh Germany – President Horst Kohler and wife, and former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder Georgia – Former President Eduard Shevardnadze Ghana – President John Agyekum Kufuor Greece – Foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis , Michael Liapis, former King Constantine II and his wife, Anne-Marie Guam – Governor Felix Camacho [ 1] Guinea – Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré Guinea-Bissau – Sports Minister Adiato Djaló Nandigna Hong Kong – Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang and Financial Secretary John Tsang Hungary – President Laszlo Solyom and wife, former President Pal Schmitt Iceland – President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson India – President of the Indian National Congress (INC) Sonia Gandhi , General Secretary of the INC Rahul Gandhi , and Chief Election Commissioner M. S. Gill Indonesia – Vice President Boediono and predecessor Jusuf Kalla International Olympic Committee – President Jacques Rogge , former President Juan Antonio Samaranch , Vice President Thomas Bach , LOC President Liu Qi , and all members of the committee (such as FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his predecessor Joao Havelange , and IAAF president Lamine Diack )International Paralympic Committee – President Sir Philip Craven , former President Robert Steadward , Vice President Andrew Parsons and all members of the committeeIran - President Mahmood Ahmadinejad , Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Iraq – President Jalal Talabani Ireland – Sports Minister Martin Cullen Israel – President Shimon Peres and spouseItaly – Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini Jordan – King Abdullah II and Queen Rania , Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour Japan – Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and wifeKazakhstan – President Nursultan Nazarbayev and wifeKenya – Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka Kosovo – Prime Minister Hashim Thaci North Korea – Chairman of the Presidium Supreme Assembly Kim Yong Nam South Korea – President Lee Myung-bak and wife, Prime Minister Han Seung-soo Kyrgyzstan – President Kurmanbek Bakiyev Laos – President Choummaly Sayasone and wifeLatvia – President Valdis Zatlers and wife, Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis Lebanon – Prime Minister Saad Hariri and spouseLesotho – Prime Minister Tom Thabane Liberia – Vice President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Libya – Head of State Muammar Gaddafi Liechtenstein – Prime Minister Otmar Hasler Lithuania – President Algirdas Brazauskas , Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas Luxembourg – Grand Duke Henri , Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Premier Jean-Claude Juncker Macau – President Fernando Chui Macedonia – Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski Madagascar – President Marc Ravalomanana and wifeMarshall Islands – Head of State Christopher Loeak Mauritania – President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Malaysia – King King Mizan Zainal Abidin and Queen Nur Zahirah Malawi – President Joyce Banda and former Chief Justice Richard Banda Mali – President Amadou Toumani Touré and wifeMauritius – President Anerood Jugnauth and wifeMexico – Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino Federated States of Micronesia – President Manny Mori Moldova – President Vladimir Voronin Morocco – Prince Moulay Rachid Monaco – Head of State Albert II, Prince of Monaco , and his partner Charlene Wittstock Mongolia – President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and wife, Prime Minister Sanj Bayar Montenegro – President Filip Vujanović and wife SvetlanaMozambique – President Armando Guebuza Myanmar – President Thein Sein Namibia – Former President Sam Nujoma Nepal – Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Netherlands – The Prince of Orange and his wife Princess Máxima , and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende New Zealand – Governor General Anand Satyanand and wifeNicaragua – President Daniel Ortega and wifeNiger – President Mahamadou Issoufou Nigeria – President Goodluck Jonathan Norway – King Harald V and Queen Sonja Palestine – Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Pakistan – Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani Palau – President Johnson Toribiong Papua New Guinea – Deputy Premier Peter O’Neill Philippines – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and husband Jose Miguel Arroyo Poland – Marshal of the Sejm (Senate President) Bogdan Borusewicz Portugal – President Aníbal Cavaco Silva Qatar – Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani Republika Srpska – President Dragan Covic Romania – President Traian Băsescu and wifeRussia – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Rwanda – President Paul Kagame and wifeSamoa – Head of State Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi and wifeSan Marino – Captain Regents Rosa Zafferani and her husband, and Federico Pedini Amati and his wifeSaudi Arabia – Prince Bandar bin Sultan Senegal – Vice President Macky Sall Serbia – President Boris Tadić and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić Seychelles – President James Alix Michel Singapore – President S. R. Nathan and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew Slovakia – President Ivan Gašparovič and wifeSlovenia – Sports Minister Milan Zver Solomon Islands – Prime Minister Allan Kemakeza South Africa – President Thabo Mbeki and First Lady Zanele Mbeki Spain – Prince Felipe VI and Princess Letizia of Asturias , and Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos Sri Lanka – President Mahinda Rajapaksa and wife ShiranthiSudan – President Omar al-Bashir Sweden – King Carl XVI Gustaf , Queen Silvia , Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth Switzerland – President Pascal Couchepin and wife BrigitteSyria – President Bashar al-Assad Tajikistan – President Emomalii Rahmon Thailand – Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej Timor-Leste – President José Ramos-Horta Togo – President Faure Gnassingbé Tonga – Crown Prince ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho and wifeTurkmenistan – President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Turkey – Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay United Arab Emirates – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Ukraine – President Viktor Yushchenko UNESCO - High Commissioner Audrey Azoulay United Nations – General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto and Sports Commissioner Adolf Ogi United Kingdom – Princess Royal Anne , Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister Tony Blair United States – President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush , Former President George H. W. Bush and wife Barbara Bush , Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao , Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg Uzbekistan – President Islam Karimov Vanuatu – President Kalkot Mataskelekele , Prime Minister Ham Lini and their wivesVenezuela – Vice President Nicolas Maduro Vietnam – President Nguyễn Minh Triết and spouseYemen – Deputy Premier Khaled Bahah Zambia – President Rupiah Banda Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe 
Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai
African Union – Commission President Alpha Oumar Konaré
Algeria – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Albania – Prime Minister Sali Berisha and wife, Sport Minister Yili Pango
Andorra – Head of Government Albert Pintat Santolària and wife
Angola – President José Eduardo dos Santos and wife
Arab League – Ministerial Envoy Samir Hosny
Armenia – President Serzh Sargsyan
ASEAN – Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan
Australia – Governor General Michael Jeffrey, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and wife Thérèse Rein
Austria – Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer
Azerbaijan – President Ilham Aliyev and wife Mehriban Aliyeva
Bahamas – Governor General Arthur Foulkes
Bahrain – Crown Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa
Bangladesh – Chief of Army Staff, General Moeen U Ahmed
Belarus – President Alexander Lukashenko
Belgium – The Duke of Brabant and Prime Minister Yves Leterme
Bhutan – King Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck
Bosnia and Herzegovina – President Haris Silajdzic
Brazil – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Brunei – Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Foreign Minister Lim Jock Seng
Bulgaria – President Georgi Parvanov
Burundi – President Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia – King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen
Cameroon – Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni
Canada – Foreign Minister David Emerson, Minister of State Helena Guergis, and Premier of British Columbia Province Gordon Campbell
Chad – Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas
China (host) – President Hu Jintao and wife Liu Yongqing, Premier Wen Jiabao and wife Zhang Peili, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, State Councillor Dai Bingguo, Vice President Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan, former president Jiang Zemin, former premiers Li Peng and Zhu Rongji, Future Prime Minister Li Keqiang and all prominent Chinese politicians
CGF – Federal Secretary Louise Martin
Chinese Taipei – Former Minister of the Interior Wu Po-hsiung, former Vice President Lien Chan, former Governor of Taiwan Province James Soong
CIS – Secretary General Sergei Lebedev
Democratic Republic of the Congo – President Joseph Kabila
Congo – President Denis Sassou Nguesso
Cook Islands – Head of State Sir Frederick Goodwin and wife
Croatia – President Stjepan Mesić and spouse
Cuba – Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel
Cyprus – President Demetris Christofias and wife
Czech Republic – Former President Vaclav Havel
Denmark – Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen
Djibouti – Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita
Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
Equatorial Guinea – Prime Minister Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
European Union – Union’s High Commissioner Louis Michel
Estonia – Vice President Toomas Henrik Ilves
Ethiopia – Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
Fiji – Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama and wife
Finland – Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
France – President Nicolas Sarkozy and son Louis, foreign minister Bernard Accoyer, and former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Gabon – President Omar Bongo
Gambia – President Yahya Jammeh
Germany – President Horst Kohler and wife, and former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
Georgia – Former President Eduard Shevardnadze
Ghana – President John Agyekum Kufuor
Greece – Foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis, Michael Liapis, former King Constantine II and his wife, Anne-Marie
Guam – Governor Felix Camacho[1]
Guinea – Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré
Guinea-Bissau – Sports Minister Adiato Djaló Nandigna
Hong Kong – Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang and Financial Secretary John Tsang
Hungary – President Laszlo Solyom and wife, former President Pal Schmitt
Iceland – President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
India – President of the Indian National Congress (INC) Sonia Gandhi, General Secretary of the INC Rahul Gandhi, and Chief Election Commissioner M. S. Gill
Indonesia – Vice President Boediono and predecessor Jusuf Kalla
International Olympic Committee – President Jacques Rogge, former President Juan Antonio Samaranch, Vice President Thomas Bach, LOC President Liu Qi, and all members of the committee (such as FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his predecessor Joao Havelange, and IAAF president Lamine Diack)
International Paralympic Committee – President Sir Philip Craven, former President Robert Steadward, Vice President Andrew Parsons and all members of the committee
Iran - President Mahmood Ahmadinejad, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani
Iraq – President Jalal Talabani
Ireland – Sports Minister Martin Cullen
Israel – President Shimon Peres and spouse
Italy – Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini
Jordan – King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour
Japan – Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and wife
Kazakhstan – President Nursultan Nazarbayev and wife
Kenya – Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka
Kosovo – Prime Minister Hashim Thaci
North Korea – Chairman of the Presidium Supreme Assembly Kim Yong Nam
South Korea – President Lee Myung-bak and wife, Prime Minister Han Seung-soo
Kyrgyzstan – President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Laos – President Choummaly Sayasone and wife
Latvia – President Valdis Zatlers and wife, Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis
Lebanon – Prime Minister Saad Hariri and spouse
Lesotho – Prime Minister Tom Thabane
Liberia – Vice President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya – Head of State Muammar Gaddafi
Liechtenstein – Prime Minister Otmar Hasler
Lithuania – President Algirdas Brazauskas, Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas
Luxembourg – Grand Duke Henri, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Premier Jean-Claude Juncker
Macau – President Fernando Chui
Macedonia – Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
Madagascar – President Marc Ravalomanana and wife
Marshall Islands – Head of State Christopher Loeak
Mauritania – President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Malaysia – King King Mizan Zainal Abidin and Queen Nur Zahirah
Malawi – President Joyce Banda and former Chief Justice Richard Banda
Mali – President Amadou Toumani Touré and wife
Mauritius – President Anerood Jugnauth and wife
Mexico – Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino
Federated States of Micronesia – President Manny Mori
Moldova – President Vladimir Voronin
Morocco – Prince Moulay Rachid
Monaco – Head of State Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and his partner Charlene Wittstock
Mongolia – President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and wife, Prime Minister Sanj Bayar
Montenegro – President Filip Vujanović and wife Svetlana
Mozambique – President Armando Guebuza
Myanmar – President Thein Sein
Namibia – Former President Sam Nujoma
Nepal – Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Netherlands – The Prince of Orange and his wife Princess Máxima, and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
New Zealand – Governor General Anand Satyanand and wife
Nicaragua – President Daniel Ortega and wife
Niger – President Mahamadou Issoufou
Nigeria – President Goodluck Jonathan
Norway – King Harald V and Queen Sonja
Palestine – Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
Pakistan – Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
Palau – President Johnson Toribiong
Papua New Guinea – Deputy Premier Peter O’Neill
Philippines – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and husband Jose Miguel Arroyo
Poland – Marshal of the Sejm (Senate President) Bogdan Borusewicz
Portugal – President Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Qatar – Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani
Republika Srpska – President Dragan Covic
Romania – President Traian Băsescu and wife
Russia – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Rwanda – President Paul Kagame and wife
Samoa – Head of State Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi and wife
San Marino – Captain Regents Rosa Zafferani and her husband, and Federico Pedini Amati and his wife
Saudi Arabia – Prince Bandar bin Sultan
Senegal – Vice President Macky Sall
Serbia – President Boris Tadić and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić
Seychelles – President James Alix Michel
Singapore – President S. R. Nathan and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
Slovakia – President Ivan Gašparovič and wife
Slovenia – Sports Minister Milan Zver
Solomon Islands – Prime Minister Allan Kemakeza
South Africa – President Thabo Mbeki and First Lady Zanele Mbeki
Spain – Prince Felipe VI and Princess Letizia of Asturias, and Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos
Sri Lanka – President Mahinda Rajapaksa and wife Shiranthi
Sudan – President Omar al-Bashir
Sweden – King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
Switzerland – President Pascal Couchepin and wife Brigitte
Syria – President Bashar al-Assad
Tajikistan – President Emomalii Rahmon
Thailand – Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej
Timor-Leste – President José Ramos-Horta
Togo – President Faure Gnassingbé
Tonga – Crown Prince ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho and wife
Turkmenistan – President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Turkey – Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay
United Arab Emirates – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Ukraine – President Viktor Yushchenko
UNESCO - High Commissioner Audrey Azoulay
United Nations – General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto and Sports Commissioner Adolf Ogi
United Kingdom – Princess Royal Anne, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister Tony Blair
United States – President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush, Former President George H. W. Bush and wife Barbara Bush, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg
Uzbekistan – President Islam Karimov
Vanuatu – President Kalkot Mataskelekele, Prime Minister Ham Lini and their wives
Venezuela – Vice President Nicolas Maduro
Vietnam – President Nguyễn Minh Triết and spouse
Yemen – Deputy Premier Khaled Bahah
Zambia – President Rupiah Banda
Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe