26 foreign country leaders will attend China military parade
According to the statement issued by the foreign ministry of China, 26 foreign heads of state and government will attend the September 3rd grand military parade in Beijing. They are:
President of Russia Vladimir Putin,
General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the DPRK Kim Jong Un,
King of Cambodia Norodom Sihamoni,
President of Viet Nam Luong Cuong,
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Thongloun Sisoulith,
President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto,
Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim,
President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh,
Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif,
Prime Minister of Nepal KP Sharma Oli,
President of the Maldives Mohamed Muizzu,
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon,
President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov,
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov,
President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukshenko,
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev,
President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan,
President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian,
President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou,
President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa,
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić,
Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico,
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez,
and Acting President of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing.
At the invitation of the Chinese government, the speakers, deputy prime ministers and high-level representatives from other countries, the heads of international and regional organizations and the former statesmen will also attend the Commemoration. The speakers and deputy prime ministers include Speaker of the National Assembly of the ROK Woo Won-Shik, Speaker of the National Parliament of Timor Leste Maria Fernanda Lay, President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Jorge Rodriguez Gómez, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Gan Kim Yong, Special Envoy of the President of Egypt and Deputy Prime Minister Kamel Al-Wazir, Chairman of the Bulgaria Socialist Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria Atanas Zafirov.
The high-level representatives include Chief Adviser to the Brazilian President Celso Amorim, Representative of the Brazilian Government and Ambassador to China Marcos Galvao, Representative of the Nicaraguan Government and President’s Adviser Laureano Ortega Murillo, Representative of the Hungarian Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, Major General Haszaimi, Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces, Representative of Interim Government of Bangladesh and National Security Adviser Khalilur Rahman, Minister of War Veterans and Rights Holders of Algeria Laid Rebiga and member of the European Parliament Ondřej Dostál.
The heads of international and regional organizations include Under Secretary General of the U.N. Li Junhua, Director General of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Qu Dongyu, President of the New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff, President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Jin Liqun, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Nurlan Yermekbayev, Executive Committee Director of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Ularbek Zarlykovich Sharsheev, Secretary General of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia Kairat Sarybay, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent States Sergey Lebedev, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov, and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Bakytzhan Sagintayev.
The former statesmen include former Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama, former President of the Swiss Federation and Minister of Finance Ulrich Maurer, former Prime Minister of Belgium Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Italy Massimo D’Alema, former Prime Ministers of Romania Adrian Năstase and Viorica Dăncilă, former Prime Ministers of New Zealand Helen Clark and John Key, former Foreign Minister of Australia Robert Carr, and former Premier of the Victoria State of Australia Daniel Andrews. The foreign diplomatic envoys in China, the military attaches and the representatives of international organizations in China will also attend the Commemoration upon invitation.
