List of dignitaries at the memorial service of Nelson Mandela

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  Government representatives (light green)

This is a list of dignitaries at the state memorial service of Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa.^[1] Mr Mandela died on 5 December 2013. Many heads of state and government attended the state memorial service on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. The memorial service was one of the largest gatherings of world leaders.^[2] It was also the largest funeral in the history of South Africa, and the African continent itself.

Two UN Secretary Generals, both presidents of EU (Council and Commission), two French presidents, four United States Presidents and four UK Prime Ministers attended the funeral service. In total, more than 500 VIP dignitaries from 19 supranational organizations and approximately 190 countries had arrived for this event. Some of the dignitaries later attend the Burial ceremony on 15 December 2013 at Mandela's hometown, Qunu.

This memorial event is the largest in the world in terms of foreign leaders, surpassing the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005.

Dignitaries

Heads of state and government

South African President Jacob Zuma waiting to take the stage at the FNB Stadium

Barack and Michelle Obama seated next to Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt

President Yayi Boni of Benin greeting other dignitaries

Crowd at the stadium

Crowd at the stadium

Country	Title	Dignitary
South Africa	President	Jacob Zuma
Afghanistan	President	Hamid Karzai[3]
Albania	Prime Minister	Sali Berisha
Andorra	Prime Minister	Antoni Marti
Antigua and Barbuda	Prime Minister	Baldwin Spencer
Australia	Prime Minister	Tony Abbott
Austria	Chancellor	Werner Faymann
Bahamas	Prime Minister	Perry Christie
Bangladesh	President	Abdul Hamid
Belgium	King	Philippe
Belgium	Prime Minister	Elio Di Rupo
Belize	Prime Minister	Dean Barrow
Benin	President	Yayi Boni
Botswana	President	Ian Khama[4]
Brazil	President	Dilma Rousseff
Burundi	President	Pierre Nkurunziza
Canada	Prime Minister	Stephen Harper
Chad	President	Idriss Déby
Chile	President	Sebastián Piñera
Comoros	President	Ikililou Dhoinine
Democratic Republic of Congo	President	Joseph Kabila
Republic of the Congo	President	Denis Sassou Nguesso
Croatia	President	Ivo Josipović
Cuba	President	Raúl Castro
Czech Republic	President	Milos Zeman
Denmark	Prime Minister	Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Djibouti	President	Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Dominica	President	Eliud Williams
Dominican Republic	President	Danilo Medina
East Timor	Prime Minister	Xanana Gusmão
Egypt	Prime Minister	Hazem Al Beblawi (Acting)
Equatorial Guinea	President	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Ethiopia	Prime Minister	Hailemariam Desalegn
Finland	President	Sauli Niinistö
France/ Andorra	President/Co-Prince	François Hollande
Gabon	President	Ali Bongo Ondimba
The Gambia	President	Yahya Jammeh[5]
Germany	President	Joachim Gauck
Germany	Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Ghana	President	John Dramani Mahama
Greece	Prime Minister	Antonis Samaras
Grenada	Prime Minister	Keith Mitchell
Guinea	President	Alpha Condé
Guyana	President	Donald Ramotar
Haiti	President	Michel Martelly
	Prime Minister	Laurent Lamothe
Holy See	Prime Minister	Angelo Sodano
Hungary	Prime Minister	Viktor Orbán
Iceland	President	Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
India	President	Pranab Mukherjee[6]
Iran	President	Hassan Rouhani
Iraq	President	Jalal Talabani
Ireland	President	Michael D. Higgins[7]
Italy	Prime Minister	Enrico Letta
Ivory Coast	President	Alassane Ouattara
Jamaica	Prime Minister	Portia Simpson-Miller
Jordan	Prime Minister	Abdullah Ensour
Kenya	President	Uhuru Kenyatta
Latvia	President	Andris Berzins
Lebanon	Prime Minister	Najib Mikati
Lesotho	Prime Minister	Tom Thabane
	King	King Letsie III
Liberia	President	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liechtenstein	Prime Minister	Adrian Hasler
Luxembourg	Grand Duke	Henri
Madagascar	President	Andry Rajoelina
Malawi	President	Joyce Banda
Mali	President	Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
Malta	Prime Minister	Joseph Muscat
Mauritania	President	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Mauritius	Prime Minister	Navin Ramgoolam
Mexico	President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Montenegro	President	Filip Vujanovic
Mozambique	President	Armando Guebuza
Namibia	President	Hifikepunye Pohamba
Netherlands	King	Willem-Alexander
	Prime Minister	Mark Rutte
New Zealand	Prime Minister	John Key
Niger	President	Mahamadou Issoufou
Nigeria	President	Goodluck Jonathan
Norway	Prime Minister	Erna Solberg[8]
Pakistan	President	Mamnoon Hussain
State of Palestine	President	Mahmoud Abbas
Poland	Prime Minister	Donald Tusk
Portugal	President	Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Romania	Prime Minister	Victor Ponta[9]
Rwanda	President	Paul Kagame
Sahrawi Republic	President	Mohammed Abdelaziz
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Prime Minister	Denzil Douglas
Saint Lucia	Prime Minister	Kenny Anthony
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister	Ralph Gonsalves
Sierra Leone	President	Ernest Bai Koroma
Senegal	President	Macky Sall
Serbia	President	Tomislav Nikolić
Seychelles	President	James Michel
Slovakia	President	Ivan Gasparovic
Slovenia	President	Borut Pahor
Somalia	President	Hassan Sheikh Mohamud[citation needed]
South Korea	Prime Minister	Jung Hong-won
South Sudan	President	Salva Kiir Mayardit
Spain	Prime Minister	Mariano Rajoy[10]
Sri Lanka	President	Mahinda Rajapaksa
Sudan	President	Omar al-Bashir
Suriname	President	Dési Bouterse
Swaziland	Prime Minister	Sibusiso Dlamini
Sweden	Prime Minister	Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switzerland	President	Ueli Maurer
Syria	President	Bashar al-Assad
Tanzania	President	Jakaya Kikwete
Togo	President	Faure Gnassingbe
Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister	Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Tunisia	President	Moncef Marzouki
Uganda	President	Yoweri Museveni
United Kingdom	Prime Minister	David Cameron
United States	President	Barack Obama[11]
Uruguay	President	Jose Mujica
Venezuela	President	Nicolás Maduro
Vanuatu	Prime Minister	Ham Lini
Zambia	President	Michael Sata
Zimbabwe	President	Robert Mugabe

Other royalty

Country	Title	Dignitary
Belgium	Queen	Queen Mathilde
Denmark	Crown Prince	Prince Frederik
Japan	Crown Prince	Prince Naruhito
Jordan	Queen consort	Queen Rania
Monaco	Prince	Albert II
Monaco	Princess consort	Princess Charlene
Morocco	Prince	Prince Moulay Rachid
Norway	Crown Prince	Prince Haakon
Saudi Arabia	Prince	Prince Muqrin
Spain	Crown Prince	Prince Felipe
Sweden	Crown Princess	Princess Victoria
United Kingdom	Prince of Wales	Prince Charles
United Kingdom	Duke of Cambridge	Prince William
United Kingdom	Prince	Prince Harry

Government representatives

Country	Title	Dignitary
South Africa	Deputy President	Kgalema Motlanthe
Algeria	Speaker of the Council of the Nation	Abdelkader Bensalah
Angola	Vice President	Manuel Vicente
Antigua and Barbuda	High Commissioner	Carl Ruberts
	Ambassador
Argentina	Vice President	Amado Boudou
Barbados	Foreign Minister	Maxine McClean
Belarus	Vice Chairman of the House of Representatives	Viktor Guminsky[12]
British Virgin Islands	Foreign Minister	Orlando Smith
Bulgaria	Deputy Prime Minister
Canada	Nova Scotia Premier	Stephen McNeil
	Premier of the Yukon	Darrell Pasloski
	Alberta Premier	Alison Redford
	NDP Leader	Tom Mulcair
	Foreign Minister	John Baird
Central African Republic	Deputy Prime Minister
China	Vice President	Li Yuanchao[13]
Colombia	Vice President	Angelino Garzón
Cuba	Foreign Minister	Bruno Rodriguez
Czech Republic	Foreign Minister	Jan Kohout
Estonia	Foreign Minister	Urmas Paet[14]
Ethiopia	State Minister	Surafiel Mhreteab Abed
France	Minister of Foreign and European Affairs	Laurent Fabius[15]
	Minister of Justice	Christiane Taubira
Greece	Minister of National Defence	Dimitris Avramopoulos
Holy See	President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace	Peter Cardinal Turkson
Hungary	Deputy Prime Minister	Zsolt Semjén
India	Chairperson of the National Advisory Council	Sonia Gandhi[16]
	Minister of Commerce and Industry	Anand Sharma
	Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha	Sushma Swaraj
Iran	Vice President	Mohammad Shariatmadari
Ireland	Tánaiste	Eamon Gilmore[7]
Israel	President of the Knesset	Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
	Knesset representatives	5 Speakers
Italy	President of the Chamber of Deputies	Laura Boldrini
Lesotho	Foreign Minister	Mohlabi Tsekoa
Lithuania	Government Representative	Gitanas Nausėda
Malawi	Foreign Minister	Ephraim Chiume
Malaysia	Minister of the Federal Territories	Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor[17]
	Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water	Maximus Ongkili
Netherlands	Foreign Minister	Frans Timmermans
Nicaragua	Vice President
Poland	Foreign Minister	Radosław Sikorski
Peru	Vice President	Marisol Espinoza[citation needed]
Philippines	Vice President	Jejomar Binay[18]
Russia	Chairwoman of the Federation Council	Valentina Matviyenko
Singapore	Deputy Prime Minister	Tharman Shanmugaratnam[19]
Slovakia	Foreign Minister	Miroslav Lajcak
Sudan	Vice President	Bakri Hassan Salih
Turkey	Deputy Prime Minister	Beşir Atalay[20]
Ukraine	Foreign Minister	Leonid Kozhara
United Arab Emirates	Minister of Culture	Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan
United Kingdom	Deputy Prime Minister	Nick Clegg[21]
	Leader of the Opposition	Ed Miliband
	Mayor of London	Boris Johnson
	Speaker of the House of Commons	John Bercow
	Health Secretary	Jeremy Hunt
United States	Attorney General	Eric Holder
	National Security Advisor	Susan Rice[11]
	Senator from Texas	Ted Cruz
	United States Congress representatives	26 Congressman
US Virgin Islands	Deputy Minister	Donna Christian Christensen
Tanzania	Foreign Minister	Bernard Membe
	Representative from Chama Cha Mapinduzi	Vicky Swai
Vietnam	Chairman of the Presidential Office	Đào Việt Trung
Zambia	Vice President	Guy Scott
	Foreign Minister	Wilbur Simuusa
Zimbabwe	Deputy Prime Minister	Simbarashe Mumbengegwi

International organisations

Organisation	Title	Dignitary
Arab League	President	Samir Hosny
African Union	Chairperson of the AU Commission	Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Commonwealth of Nations	Secretary-General	Kamalesh Sharma
Council of Europe	Secretary General	Thorbjorn Jagland
European Council	President	Herman Van Rompuy
European Union	President of the European Commission	José Manuel Barroso
European Union	President of Parliament	Martin Schultz
European Union	Head of Delegation
FAO	President	José Graziano da Silva
ILO	President	Guy Ryder
International Monetary Fund	Managing Director	Christine Lagarde
International Organization for Migration	Director General	William Lacy Swing
NATO	Secretary General	Anders Fogh Rasmussen
OECD	Secretary General	José Ángel Gurría
OSCE	Secretary General	Lamberto Zannier
Southern African Development Community	Secretary General
United Nations	Secretary-General	Ban Ki-moon
United Nations	Human Rights Commissioner	Navi Pillay
UNESCO	Director General	Irina Bokova
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	President	Yuri Fedotov
World Food Programme	President	Ertharin Cousin
World Bank	President	Jim Yong Kim

Former heads of state

Country / Org	Title	Dignitary
Australia	Former Prime Minister	Paul Keating
Brazil	31st President	José Sarney
	32nd President	Fernando Collor de Mello
	34th President	Fernando Henrique Cardoso
	35th President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Canada	16th Prime Minister	Joe Clark
	18th Prime Minister	Brian Mulroney
	19th Prime Minister	Kim Campbell
	20th Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
	26th Governor General	Adrienne Clarkson
	27th Governor General	Michaëlle Jean
Colombia	30th President	Andrés Pastrana[22]
Finland	10th President	Martti Ahtisaari
	40th Prime Minister	Matti Vanhanen
France	23rd President	Nicolas Sarkozy
	164th Prime Minister	Alain Juppé
	165th Prime Minister	Lionel Jospin
Germany	13th President	Horst Kohler
Ghana	1st President (Fourth Republic)	Jerry Rawlings
Iran	5th President	Mohammad Khatami
Ireland	7th President	Mary Robinson[7]
	Former Taoiseach	Bertie Ahern
Italy	Former Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Japan	58th Prime Minister	Yasuo Fukuda
Namibia	1st President	Sam Nujoma
New Zealand	35th Prime Minister	Jim Bolger
Nigeria	1st President (Fourth Republic)	Olusegun Obasanjo
	11th Vice President	Atiku Abubakar
Norway	27th Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Poland	2nd President	Lech Wałęsa
Romania	3rd President	Emil Constantinescu
Russia	Former Soviet President	Mikhail Gorbachev
South Africa	State President / 1st Deputy President	Frederik Willem De Klerk
	2nd President	Thabo Mbeki
	3rd President	Kgalema Motlanthe
United Kingdom	former Prime Minister	John Major
	former Prime Minister	Tony Blair
	former Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
United States	39th President	Jimmy Carter[11]
	42nd President	Bill Clinton[11]
	43rd President	George W. Bush[11]
Tanzania	Former Vice President	Ali Mohamed Shein
Zambia	1st President	Kenneth Kaunda
African Union	Former President	Alpha Oumar Konare
United Nations	7th Secretary General	Kofi Annan

Other guests

Bono and his wife Ali Hewson greet President Obama at the memorial service

This section is a partial list of notable guests who attended the memorial service.

• Bono, Irish U2 vocalist and activist^[23]
• Richard Branson, British businessman, founder of Virgin Group^[23]
• Laura Bush, Former First Lady, spouse of former US President George W. Bush
• Naomi Campbell, British model^[23]
• Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former US President Bill Clinton
• Hillary Clinton, former US Secretary of State^[11] (Governmental representatives).
• Peter Gabriel, British singer^[23]
• Bill Gates, American businessman, founder and president of Microsoft^[21]
• Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist, minister, and politician
• Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State (Governmental representatives).
• Annie Lennox, British singer-songwriter^[21]
• Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player^[23]
• Charlize Theron, South African-American actress^[23]
• Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop^[21]
• Oprah Winfrey, American television personality and actress^[21]

Non-attendance

•  Germany : Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who frequently attended funerals of world leaders during his term of office, did not attend. Germany's former leaders did not usually attend world leaders's funeral.
•  Iran: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was expected to attend the service but had to cancel his visit due to the visit of his Russian counterpart in Tehran.^{[citation needed]}
•  Israel: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not attend the memorial service citing financial and security reasons.^[24]
•  Republic of China (Taiwan): The ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to not send a delegation because of the time constraint. Instead, Foreign Minister David Lin personally visited the Liaison Office of South Africa to convey condolences over the death of Mandela. In addition, the Representative of the ROC to South Africa visited the Union Buildings in Pretoria to view the remains of Mandela and pay respects on behalf of the ROC government.^[25]
•  Thailand: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was expected to attend but declined due to ongoing protests against her government.
•  Tibet: The 14th Dalai Lama was expected to attend the service but was denied a visa by the South African government.^[26]
•   The Vatican: Pope Francis was sent an invitation to attend either the memorial or state funeral.^[26] He did not attend either because it was against the tradition that Popes do not usually attend funerals of world leaders.
•  Vietnam: President Trương Tấn Sang did not attend the service due to the time constraint. The country was represented by Mr Đào Việt Trung, Chairman of the Presidential Office.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela.

• Images of the Memorial Service on Flickr
• SABC coverage of Nelson Mandela Memorial Service on YouTube