Foreign dignitaries, close friends to attend Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s state funeral
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, is accompanied by Ho Ching, right, wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, as he pays his respects to the late Lee Kuan Yew, on Saturday, March 28, 2015, in Singapore. Photo: AP
SINGAPORE — Several foreign dignitaries will be attending the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s State Funeral Service this Sunday (March 29), which will be held at the University Cultural Centre at National University of Singapore.
The full list is as follows:
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk and Queen Jetsun Pema Wangchuk
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and his wife
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov
Lao PDR’s Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong
Malaysia’s King Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah
Myanmar’s President U Thein Sein
New Zealand’s Governor-General Jerry Mateparae
Canada’s Governor-General David Johnston
Philippines’ President of the Senate Franklin Drilon
China’s Vice-President Li Yuanchao
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha with his wife
UK’s First Secretary of State and Leader of the House of Commons William Hague
US former President Bill Clinton and former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
Other attendees also include several close friends of the late Mr Lee, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee Hwa, former chairman of Sumitomo Chemical Hiromasa Yonekura with his wife, Prof Pieter-Winsemius and Ms Ankie Aeyelts Averink-Winsemius from the Netherlands and former leaders from Taiwan, Hau Pei-Tsun, Lien Chan, Vincent Siew and Su Tseng-Chang.
