The following world figures have confirmed attendance at Shimon Peres’ funeral in Jerusalem on Friday:
United States:
— U.S President Barack Obama
— Former U.S. President Bill Clinton
— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
Palestinian Authority:
— Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
— Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
— Palestinian intelligence chief Majid Faraj
—Cabinet minister Hussein Sheikh
—Palestinian adviser on Israeli affairs, Mohammed al-Madani
Canada:
— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
— Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
— Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
— Canada’s opposition interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose
Germany:
— German President Joachim Gauck
United Kingdom:
— British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
— Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
— Britain’s Prince Charles
France:
— French President Francois Hollande
European Union
— European Council President Donald Tusk
Spain:
Spanish King Felipe VI
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo
Netherlands:
— Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
Russia:
— Speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, Valentina Matviyenko.
Cyprus:
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades
Poland:
— Poland’s President Andrzej Duda
Romania:
— President Klaus Iohannis
NATO:
— NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
Sweden:
— Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven
Finland:
— Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila
Latvia:
— Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis
Lithuania:
— Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite
Estonia
— Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas
Norway
— Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende
Denmark
— Denmark’s Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen
Japan
— Japanese lawmaker and former Defense Secretary Gen Nakatani
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