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- List of VIP Guests and Dignitaries
- 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
- Beijing Olympic Stadium, Beijing, China
- 08 August 2008
International organizations:
African Union – Commission President Alpha Oumar Konare
ASEAN – Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan
CIS – Secretary General Sergei Lebedev
European Union – High Commissioner Louis Michel
International Olympic Committee – President Jacques Rogge, former President Juan Antonio Samaranch, Vice President Thomas Bach, LOC President Liu Qi, and members of the committee (such as FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his predecessor Joao Havelange, and IAAF president Lamine Diack)
UNESCO - High Commissioner Audrey Azoulay
United Nations – General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto and Sports Commissioner Adolf Ogi
Host nation:
China – President Hu Jintao and his wife Liu Yongqing, Premier Wen Jiabao and his wife Zhang Peili and his cabinet, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Vice President Xi Jinping, former president Jiang Zemin, former premiers Li Peng and Zhu Rongji, Future Prime Minister Li Keqiang as well as all members of the Politburo Standing Committee
Foreign dignitaries:
Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai
Albania – Prime Minister Sali Berisha and wife
Algeria – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Andorra – Head of Government Albert Pintat Santolària and wife
Angola – President José Eduardo dos Santos and wife
Armenia – President Serzh Sargsyan
Australia – 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
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
Canada – Foreign Minister David Emerson, Minister of State Helena Guergis, and Premier of British Columbia Province Gordon Campbell
Chad – Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas
Chinese Taipei – Former Minister of the Interior Wu Po-hsiung, former Vice President Lien Chan, former Governor of Taiwan Province James Soong
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 – The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark
Djibouti – Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita
Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic – President Leonel Fernandez
Ecuador – Vice President Lenin Moreno
Equatorial Guinea – President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Estonia – Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
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, President of the National Assembly Bernard Accoyer, and former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Gabon – President Omar Bongo
Gambia – President Yahya Jammeh
Germany – Former 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
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
Iran - President Mahmood Ahmadinejad and 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
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 Kim Yoon-ok
Kyrgyzstan – President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Laos – President Choummaly Sayasone and wife
Latvia – President Valdis Zatlers and wife
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 Valdas Adamkus
Luxembourg – Grand Duke Henri, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Premier Jean-Claude Juncker
Macau – President Fernando Chui
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 and former President Ernesto Zedillo
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
Montenegro – President Filip Vujanović and wife Svetlana
Mozambique – President Armando Guebuza
Myanmar – President Thein Sein
Namibia – Former President Sam Nujoma
Netherlands – The Prince of Orange and his wife Princess Máxima, and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
New Zealand – Governor General Anand Satyanand and wife
Nigeria – Vice President Goodluck Jonathan
Nepal – Prime Minister Prachanda
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 – 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 – President Dmitry Medvedev and 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 – The Prince and Princess 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, 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 – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Ukraine – President Viktor Yushchenko
United Kingdom – Princess Royal Anne, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott 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 and Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
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 Michael Sata
Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe
- ^ Santo Tomas, Jojo (9 August 2008). "2008 Olympics get under way: Judoka Ric Blas Jr. chosen as flagbearer". Pacific Daily News. Retrieved 8 August 2008. [dead link]
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