2005 WORLD SUMMIT GROUP PHOTO

The UN has taken to calling almost every important meeting a "summit" but in reality they have been few and far between. The last real gathering of World leaders was at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2005: L to R, Front Row: Alfred Moisiu (Albania), Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (Zambia), Benjamin William Mkapa (Tanzania), Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé (Togo), Branko Crvenkovski (Macedonia), Tony Blair (Britain), Vladimir Putin (Russia), George Bush (United States), Göran Persson (Sweden), Secretary-General Kofi Annan, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon), Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (Philippines), Hu Jintao (China), Dominique de Villepin (France), Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (Timor-Leste), Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Algeria), Mathieu Kérékou (Benin).

Second Row: Mouwaffak Al-Rubaie (Iraq), Ismail Omar Guelleh (Djibouti), Stjepan Mesi (Croatia), Colonel Azali Assoumani (Comoros), François Bozizé (Central African Republic), Paul Biya (Cameroon), Georgi Parvanov (Bulgaria), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Ivo Miro Jovic (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Jan Eliasson (General Assembly President), Louise Fréchette (Deputy Secretary-General), Jean Ping (59th General Assembly President), Festus G. Mogae (Botswana), Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah (Brunei Darussalam), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi), Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires (Cape Verde), Ricardo Lagos Escobar (Chile), Denis Sassou Nguesso (Congo,) Tassos Papadopoulos (Cyprus), Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea).

Third Row: Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (Maldives), Valdas Adamkus (Lithuania), Emile Lahoud (Lebanon), Kurmanbek Bakiev (Kyrgyzstan), Mwai Kibaki (Kenya), Jalal Talabani (Iraq), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (Indonesia), Ricardo Maduro Joest (Honduras), Mikheil Saakashvili (Georgia), Tarja Halonen (Finland), Arnold Rüütel (Estonia), Al Hadji Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh (Gambia), John Agyekum Kufuor (Ghana), László Sólyom (Hungary), Mahmud Ahmadinejad (Iran), Abdullah Bin Al Hussein (Jordan), Vaira Vike-Freiberga (Latvia), Charles Gyude Bryant (Liberia), Marc Ravalomanana (Madagascar), Amadou Toumani Touré (Mali).

Fourth Row: Fausta Simona Morganti I (San Marino), Traian Basescu (Romania), Roh Moo-hyun (Republic of Korea), Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio (Portugal), Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan), Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), Hifikepunye Pohamba (Namibia), Nambar Enkhbayar (Mongolia), Vicente Fox (Mexico), Kessai Note (Marshall Islands), Albert II (Monaco), Armando Emílio Guebuza (Mozambique), Ludwig Scotty (Nauru), Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. (Palau), Alejandro Toledo Manrique (Peru), Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (Qatar), Vladimir Voronin (Moldova), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Cesare Antonio Gasperoni II (San Marino), Abdoulaye Wade (Senegal).

Fifth Row: Owen Seymour Arthur (Barbados), John Howard (Australia), Winston Baldwin Spencer (Antigua and Barbuda), Maatia Toafa (Tuvalu,) Mari Alkatiri (Timor-Leste), Emomali Rakhmonov (Tajikistan), Mswati III (Swaziland), Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Sri Lanka), Thabo Mbeki (South Africa), Ivan Gasparovi (Slovakia), Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (Sierra Leone), Janez Drnovsek (Slovenia), Juan Carlos I (Spain), Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan (Suriname), Samuel Schmid (Switzerland), Thaksin Shinawatra (Thailand), Recep Tayyip Erdoan (Turkey), Albert Pintat Santolària (Andorra), Andranik Margaryan (Armenia), Begum Khaleda Zia (Bangladesh), Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium).

Sixth Row: Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Malaysia), BounNhang Vorachit (Laos), Percival James Patterson (Jamaica), Ariel Sharon, (Israel), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Iceland), Carlos Gomes, Jr. (Guinea-Bissau), Jií Paroubek (Czech Republic), Said W. Musa (Belize), Paul Martin (Canada), Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark), Kostas Karamanlis (Greece), Cellou Dalein Diallo (Guinea), Gérard Latortue, (Haiti), Bertie Ahern, (Iceland), Silvio Berlusconi, (Italy), Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Kuwait), Pakalitha Bethuel Mosisili (Lesotho), Lawrence Gonzi (Malta).

Seventh Row: Siosiua ‘Utoikamanu (Tonga), S. Jayakumar (Singapore), Sato Kilman (Vanuatu), Truong My Hoa (Viet Nam), Ahmad Zia Massoud (Afghanistan), José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain), Hama Amadou (Niger), Driss Jettou (Morocco), Navinchandra Ramgoolam (Mauritius), Jan Peter Balkaenende (Netherlands), Denzil Douglas (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Allan Kemakeza (Solomon Islands), Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud (Saudi Arabia), Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa (Bahrain), Jean Asselborn (Luxembourg), Laurent Dona-Fologo (Côte d’Ivoire), Knowlson Gift (Trinidad and Tobago).

Eighth Row: Ramesh Nath Pandey (Nepal), Mohamed Ould El Abed (Mauritania), Kazzymzhomart K. Tokaev (Kazakhstan), Ahmed Aboul Gheit (Egypt), Allam-Mi Ahmad (Chad), Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk (Bhutan), Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (United Arab Emirates), Abdelwaheb Abdallah (Tunisia), Frederick A. Mitchell (Bahamas), Youssouf Ouéedraogo (Burkina Faso), Raymond Ramazani Baya (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Nyan Win (Myanmar), Norman José Caldera Cardenal (Nicaragua), Elmar Maharram oglu Mammadyarov (Azerbaijan). Ninth Row: Angelo Cardinal Sodano (Holy See), Fayssal Mekdad (Syria), Roberto de Almeida (Angola), Vuk Draskovi (Serbia and Muntenegro), Rabbie L. Namaliu (Papua New Guinea), Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said (Oman), Petrus Compton, (Saint Lucia), Mustafa Osman Ismail (Sudan), Ghirmai Ghebremariam (Eritrea), Nasser Al-Kidwa (Palestine).