More leaders, officials of foreign countries, int´l organizations mourn China´s quake victims

Source: Xinhua | 05-22-2008 10:45

BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- More foreign governments and leaders have expressed their sympathies for the victims of the deadly earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12.

Up to 20:00 Beijing time (1200 GMT) Wednesday, heads of state and government, parliamentary leaders, officials of international organizations and people from all walks of life from 115 countries visited Chinese embassies, consulates or missions to mourn the victims of the earthquake, according to a release from China's Foreign Affairs Ministry. The following are a list of them. The heads of state are:

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse;

Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete;

Tanzanian Vice-President Ali Mohammed Shein;

Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor;

Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo;

Zimbabwe's Vice President Joyce Mujuru;

Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin;

Romanian President Traian Basescu;

Cyprus' President Demetris Christofias;

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe;

Suriname's President Ronald Venetiaan;

Vanuatu's President Kalkot Mataskelekele;

Dominican President Nicholas J.O. Liverpool;

Botswana's Vice President Mompati Merafhe;

Micronesia's Vice President Alik Alik;

Zambia's Former President Kenneth David Kaunda;

French Former President Jacques Chirac. The heads of government are:

Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo;

DPRK's Deputy Prime Minister Ro Du Chol;

Somalian Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein;

Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam;

The Central African Republic's Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadera;

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha;

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan;

Tonga's Prime Minister Feleti Vaka'uta Sevele;

Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson;

Lesotho's Acting Prime Minister Archibald Lesao Lehohla;

Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit;

Peruvian Prime Minister Jorge Del Castillo;

Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad of Laos;

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica;

Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda.

Parliamentary leaders include:

Japanese President of House of Councillors Eda Satsuki;

President of Cote d'Ivoire's National Assembly Mamadou Coulibaly;

Speaker of Suriname's National Assembly Paul S.Somohardjo;

President of National Assembly of the Central African Republic Celestin Leroy Gaombalet;

President of Afghanistan's National Assembly Yunus Qanuni;

Speaker of Ethiopia's Council of People's Representatives Teshome Toga;

President of Democratic Republic of Congo's Assembly Vital Kamerhe;

President of Togo's National Assembly Abass Bonfoh;

Speaker of Lesotho's National Assembly Ntlhoi Motsamai;

Lithuania's Parliament Speaker Ceslovas Jursenas;

President of the French Senate Christian Poncelet;

Speaker of Hungary's National Assembly Szili Katalin;

President of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada;

Speaker of Hungary's National Assembly Szili Katalin;

President of Syria's People's Assembly Mahmoud Abrash;

Moroccan Parliament Speaker Mustapha Mansouri

President of Estonian Parliament Ene Ergma. Foreign officials who visited to express their condolences include:

Cyprus' Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou;

DPRK's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pak Ui Chun;

DPRK's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs kim yong il;

The Central African Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kombo Yaya;

Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa;

Russia's Vice Speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov;

Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sanjaasuren Oyuun;

Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo Yong Boon;

Thailand's Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama;

Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto Romulo;

Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Rais Yatim;

Member of Bangladesh's Council of Advisers and Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Overseas Expatriate Welfare and Employment Ministries Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury;

Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama;

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

Kenyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Moses Wetangula;

Seychelles' Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Patrick Georges Pillay;

Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation: Phandu T.C. Skelemani;

kyrgyzstan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ednan Karabayev;

Georgia's Minister for Foreign Affairs David Bakradze;

Armenia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduard Nalbandyan;

Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoer;

Micronesia's Secretary of the Department of External Affairs Asterio R. Takesy;

Barbados' Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business Christopher Sinckler;

Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere;

Madagascar's Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcel Ranjeva;

Kazakhstan's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nurlan Yermekbayev;

Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov;

Tajikistan Foreign Minister Khamrokhon Zarifi;

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski;

Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta.Other government officials who visited include:

Cote d'Ivoire's Defense Minister N'guessan Michel Amani;

DPRK's National Defense Commission (NDC) Vice Chairman Kim YongChun;

Democratic Republic of Congo's State Minister of Interior and Security Denis Kalume Numbi;

Democratic Republic of Congo's Minister of Communication and Media Emile Bongeli;

Bulgarian Health Minister Evgeniy Zhelev. Other leaders of parties and organizations include:

DPRK's Workers' Party of Korea secretaries of the secretariat Choe Tae Bok;

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Diet Affairs Committee Chairman Nikai Tohihiro;

President of the Political Office of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Farouk Kaddoumi;

President of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Vojteck Filip. Some heads of international organizations who also visited Chinese missions to voice their sympathies include:

U.N. Under-Secretary-General Sergei Alexandrovitch Ordzhonikidze;

Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna Franz Baumann;

Director-General of the World Health Organization Chan Fung Fu Chun;

Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Supachai Panitchpakdi;

Chairman of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Ssuares Toro;

Secretary General of Inter-Parliamentary Union Anders BJohnsson;

In addition, Bangladesh designated May 21 as a national mourning day for the Chinese earthquake victims, when the Bangladeshi national flags at government and foreign missions were flown at half-mast.

Editor:Liu Fang