Egypt will host a military funeral for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday before he is buried in the West Bank, officials said.
The following is an updated list of world leaders and dignitaries who are expected to attend the funeral:
AFGHANISTAN - Vice President Hedayat Amin Arsala
ALGERIA - President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
ARAB LEAGUE - Secretary-General Amr Moussa
AUSTRIA - Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach
BANGLADESH - President Iajuddin Ahmed
BELGIUM - Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, Development and Foreign Aid Minister Armand De Decker
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Prime Minister Adnan Terzic
BRAZIL - Cabinet Chief Jose Dirceu
BULGARIA - Vice President Angel Marin
CANADA - Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew
CHINA - Vice Premier Hui Liangyu
CROATIA - Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul
CYPRUS - Foreign Minister George Iakovou, Presidential envoy Vassos Lyssarides
CZECH REPUBLIC - Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda
DENMARK - Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller
EGYPT - President Hosni Mubarak
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Development and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner-designate Louis Michel
EUROPEAN UNION - Foreign policy chief Javier Solana
FINLAND - Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja
FRANCE - Foreign Minister Michel Barnier
GERMANY - Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
GREECE - Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis
HUNGARY - Foreign Minister Ferenc Somogyi
INDIA - Minister of State for External Affairs Edappakath Ahamed
INDONESIA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
IRAN - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi
IRAQ - Vice President Rowsch Shways
IRELAND - Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern
ITALY - Speaker of the Senate, Marcello Pera, Agriculture Minister Giovanni Alemanno and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Alfredo Mantica
JORDAN - King Abdullah
KUWAIT - Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah
LEBANON - President Gen. Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud
LUXEMBOURG - Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jean Asselborn
MALAYSIA - Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar
MOROCCO - Prince Moulay Rachid, King Mohammed’s younger brother
NETHERLANDS - Foreign Minister Bernard Bot
NORWAY - Foreign Minister Jan Petersen
PAKISTAN - Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
POLAND - Senate Speaker Longin Pastusiak, Deputy Foreign Minister Boguslaw Zaleski
PORTUGAL - Foreign Minister Antonio Monteiro
ROMANIA - Presidential adviser Simona Miculescu
RUSSIA - State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov
SAUDI ARABIA - Crown Prince Abdullah
SLOVAKIA - Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan
SLOVENIA - Foreign Minister Ivo Vajgl
SOMALIA - President Abdullahi Yusuf
SOUTH AFRICA - President Thabo Mbeki
SOUTH KOREA - Former Foreign Minister Yoon Young-Kwan
SPAIN - Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos
SUDAN - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
SWEDEN - Prime Minister Goran Persson
SWITZERLAND - Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey
TANZANIA - Vice-President Mohammed Ali Shein
TUNISIA - President Zine el-Abdine Ben Ali
TURKEY - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Speaker of the Federal National Council Mohammed Saeed al Kindi, Minister of Supreme Council Affairs Sheikh Fahim bin Sultan al-Qassimi, Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan and his brother Sheikh Dhiyab, both are brothers of President Sheikh Khalifa
UNITED KINGDOM - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
UNITED NATIONS - Special representative for the Middle East peace process Terje Roed-Larsen
UNITED STATES - Assistant Secretary of State William Burns, Consul General in Jerusalem David Pearce
YEMEN - President Ali Abdullah Saleh
ZIMBABWE - President Robert Mugabe REUTERS
