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Senator Biden's stunning list of heads of state he has met with was just brought to my attention today, and this is only a partial list (courtesy of Office of Senator Joe Biden):

Iraq: Allawi, al-Jaafari, al-Maliki, Talabani, Massoud Barzani, Nechirvan Barzani;

Israel: Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni;

Palestinian Territories: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Ahmed Qurei;

Jordan: King Hussein, King Abdullah;

Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Anwar Sadat;

Libya: Muammar Qaddafi;

Lebanon: Prime Minister Rafiq Haririm, Najib Mikati;

Bahrain: Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa;

Syria: President Bashar al-Assad;

Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ahmet Sezer, Abdullah Gul, Bulent Ecevit, Demirel;

Greece: Kostis Stephanopoulos, Kostas Karamanlis, Kostantinos Mitsotakis, Andreas Papandreou;

Cyprus: George Vassiliou, Glafcos Clerides;

Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai;

Pakistan: Asaf Ali Zardari, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif;

India: Manmohan Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee;

Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremasinghe;

Russia: Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Gromyko, Alexey Kosygin, Leonid Brezhnev;

France: Jacques Chirac, Dominique de Villepin, Fracois Mitterrand;

U.K.: Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher;

Ireland: Bertie Ahern, John Bruton, Albert Reynolds, Charles Haughey;

Germany: Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schroeder, Helmut Kohl, Helmut Schmidt;

Italy: Silvio Berlusconi, Romani Prodi, Cossiga Serbia Boris Tadic, Vojislav Kostunica, Zoran Djindjic, Slobodan Milosevic;

Yugoslavia: Josip Broz Tito;

Croatia: Franjo Tudjman Slovenia Janez Drnovsek, Ibrahim Rugova, Milan Kucan;

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Haris Silajdzic, Sulejman Tihiae, Alija Izetbegovic;

Kosovo (as an independent nation): Fatmir Sejdiu, Hashim Thaci;

Poland: Lech Walesa, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz;

Czech Republic: Vaclav Havel;

Hungary: Gyula Horn, Arpad Goncz, Viktor Orban;

Finland: Paavo Lipponen;

Romania: Ion Iliescu;

Georgia: Mikheil Saakashvili, Eduard Shevardnadze;

Kazakhstan: Nursultan Nazarbayev;

Ukraine: Viktor Yushchenko;

Canada: Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney;

NATO: George Robertson, Javier Solana, Manfred Woerner, Peter Carrington;

China: Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji;

Hong Kong: Tung Chee Hwa;

Taiwan: Chen Shui-Bian;

Korea: Kim Dae Jung;

Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, Lee Hsien Loong;

Indonesia: Megawati Sukarnoputri, Bambang Yudhoyono;

Australia: John Howard, Paul Keating;

Philippines: Gloria Arroyo, Fidel Ramos;

Vietnam: Phan Van Kai;

East Timor: Ramos Horta;

Tibet: The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso;

Colombia: Alvaro Uribe, Andres Pastrana, Cesar Gaviria;

Mexico: Vincente Fox, Ernesto Zedillo;

Bolivia: Jaime Paz Zamora;

South Africa: Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela;

Liberia: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf;

Lesotho: Leabua Jonathan;

United Nations: Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros Ghali;

Vatican City: Pope John Paul II;

Slovakia: Rudolf Schuster; and

Turkmenistan: Saparmurat Niyazov.

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