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Rabin funeral guest list

November 5, 1995
Web posted at: 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT)

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel has invited 4,000 guests to Monday's funeral for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat considered coming but decided to stay away, fearing he would provoke Israelis opposed to peace agreements with Palestinians, a PLO official said.

Here is partial list of leaders who have so far confirmed their participation:

Egypt
President Hosni Mubarak, Foreign Minister Amr Moussa (This will be Mubarak's first visit to Israel since coming to power in 1981.)

Hussein Jordan
King Hussein (This will be his first trip to Jerusalem since Israel captured and annexed the Arab eastern sector of the city in 1967.)

Australia
Prime Minister Paul Keating

Britain
Prime Minister John Major, Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, Labor opposition leader Tony Blair

Canada
Prime Minister Jean Chretien

Czech Republic
Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus

France
President Jacques Chirac

Germany
Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Roman Herzog

Hungary
Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs

Italy
Prime Minister Lamberto Dini, President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Foreign Minister Susanna Agnelli.

Netherlands
Prime Minister Wim Kok, Queen Beatrix

Romania
(Names of those in the delegation not yet announced)

Kozyrev Russia
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev (President Boris Yeltsin, recovering from a heart ailment, will not attend.)

Switzerland
President Kaspar Villiger

Spain
Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez

Sweden
Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson

Turkey
Prime Minister Tansu Ciller

Clinton United States
President Bill Clinton, former presidents George Bush and Jimmy Carter. The delegation also will include Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of Defense William Perry, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others.

Rabin funeral guest list

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