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More foreign leaders have offered their condolences over the victims of an earthquake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The earthquake, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, jolted villages in Jiashi and Bachu counties in Xinjiang on Feb.24, leaving over 260 people dead and at least 2,000 others injured.
Foreign leaders who have sent their condolence messages to Chinese President Jiang Zemin by March 3 include:
The King of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk;
The King of Nepal, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev;
The Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, Haji Hassanal Bolkiah;
The President of Mongolia, Nachagyn Bagabandy;
The President of Afghan Transitional Government, Hamid Karzai;
The President of France, Jacques Rene Chirac;
The President of Germany, Johannes Rau;
The President of Portugal, Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio;
The King of Norway, Harald V;
The Queen of the Netherlands, Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard;
The President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurad Atayevich Niyazov;
The President of Slovakia, Rudolf Schuster;
The President of Bulgaria, Georgi Parvanov;
The President of Azerbaijan, Geidar Aliyevich Aliyev;
The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani;
The President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan;
The King of Bahrain, Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa;
The President of Lebanon, Emile Lahoud;
The President of Turkey, Ahmet Necdet Sezer;
The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav;
The President of Tunisia, Zine al Abidine Ben Ali;
The President of Mauritania, Mawiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya;
The President of Guinea-Bissau, Kumba Yalla;
The President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki;
The President of The Democratic Republic of Congo, Josef Kabila;
The President of Botswana, Festus Gontebanye Mogae;
The President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos Escobar;
Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Joseph Msika;
Acting President and Prime Minister of Guyana, Samuel ArchibaldAnthony Hinds;
Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid al-Maktoum;
The Prime Minister of Spain, Jose Maria Aznar;
The Crown Prince of Qatar, Sheikh Jassem bin Hamad al-Thani.
The Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Zlatko Tomcic, expressed his sympathy to Li Peng, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress.
Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji also received messages from:
The President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurad Atayevich Niyazov;
The Prime Minister of Mongolia, Nambaryn Enkhbayar;
The Prime Minister of France, Jean-Pierre Raffarin;
The Prime Minister of Romania, Adrian Nastase.
(Xinhua News Agency March 4, 2003)
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