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FACTBOX: Names of participants in Annapolis meeting

Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:23pm EST

(Reuters) - The following is a list of attendees at the U.S.-hosted Middle East conference on Tuesday in Annapolis, Maryland, as provided to the State Department by participating countries and organizations:

1. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

2. Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas

3. U.S. President George W. Bush

4. EU Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner

5. EU Foreign policy chief Javier Solana

6. Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado, representing Portugal as holder of rotating EU presidency

7. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

8. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

9. Quartet Middle East Envoy Tony Blair

10. Algeria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mourad Medelci

11. Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al- Khalifa

12. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit

13. Jordanian Foreign Minister Salaheddin al-Bashir

14. Lebanon's Minister of Culture, Tareq Mitri

15. Morocco's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taieb Fassi Fihri

16. Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmad Abdullah al-Mahmood

17. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal

18. Sudan's Ambassador John Ukec Lueth

19. Syrian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fayssal Mekdad

20. Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdelwahab Abdallah

21. Yemen's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Expatriate Affairs, Abubakr al-Qirbi

22. Arab League Secretary General, Amr Moussa

23. Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Bernier

24. China's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yang Jiechi

25. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner

26. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

27. Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Massimo D'Alema

28. Japan's Special Envoy for the Middle East, Tatsuo Arima

29. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband

30. Brazil's Minister of Foreign Relations Celso Amorim

31. Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Per Stig Moller

32. Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis

33. Indian Minister of Science and Technology and Ocean Development Kapil Sibal

34. Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hassan Wirajuda

35. Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar

36. Mauritania Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mohamed Saleck Ould Mohamed Lemine

37. Mexico, Under Secretary Lourdes Aranda

38. Netherlands' Minister for European Affairs, Frans Timmermans

39. Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere

40. OIC Secretary General Ekemelddin Ihsanoglu

41. Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah

42. Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan

43. Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radek Sikorski

44. Senegal's Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio

45. Slovenia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dimitrij Rupel

46. South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

47. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos

48. Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt

49. Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan

50. United Arab Emirates, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan

51. Vatican (Holy See) Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Special Envoy Pietro Parolin

52. Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik

Observers

1. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn

2. World Bank president Robert Zoellick

(Reporting by Sue Pleming and Arshad Mohammed, editing by Jackie Frank)


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