List of national leaders
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This is a
List of national leaders, showing
heads of state and
heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; it should be noted that often a leader is both in
presidential systems or dictatorships. Some states have semi-presidential systems where the head of government role is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and the head of state.
| Country | Head of state | Head of government
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| Afghanistan | Hamid Karzai
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| Albania | Alfred Moisiu | Fatos Nano
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| Algeria | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | Ahmed Ouyahia
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| Andorra | Joan Enric Vives Sic?ia (represented by Nemesi Marqu? Oste)
and Jacques Chirac (represented by Fr??ic de Saint-Sernin) | Angola | Jos?Eduardo dos Santos | Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos
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| Antigua and Barbuda | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir James Carlisle | Lester Bird
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| Argentina | N?tor Kirchner
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| Armenia | Robert Kocharyan | Andranik Markaryan
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| Australia | Elizabeth II, represented by Michael Jeffery | John Howard
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| Austria | Thomas Klestil | Wolfgang Sch?sel
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| Azerbaijan | Ilham Aliyev | Artur Rasizade
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| Bahamas | Elizabeth II, represented by Dame Ivy Dumont | Perry Christie
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| Bahrain | Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah | Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah
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| Bangladesh | Iajuddin Ahmed | Khaleda Zia
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| Barbados | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir Clifford Husbands | Owen Arthur
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| Belarus | Alexander Lukashenko | Sergey Sidorsky
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| Belgium | Albert II | Guy Verhofstadt
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| Belize | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir Colville Young | Said Musa
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| Benin | Mathieu K??ou
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| Bhutan | Jigme Singye Wangchuck | Lyonpo Jigme Thinley
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| Bolivia | Carlos Mesa
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Dragan Covic | Adnan Terzic
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| Botswana | Festus Mogae
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| Brazil | Lu? In?io Lula da Silva
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| Brunei | Hassanal Bolkiah
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| Bulgaria | Georgi Purvanov | Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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| Burkina Faso | Ernest Paramanga Yonli
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| Burundi | Domitien Ndayizeye
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| Cambodia | Norodom Sihanouk | Hun Sen
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| Cameroon | Paul Biya | Peter Mafany Musonge
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| Canada | Elizabeth II, represented by Adrienne Clarkson | Paul Martin
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| Cape Verde | Pedro Pires | Jos?Maria Neves
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| Central African Republic | C?estin Gaombalet
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| Chad | Idriss D?y | Moussa Faki
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| Chile | Ricardo Lagos
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| China (PRC) | Hu Jintao | Wen Jiabao
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| Colombia | ?varo Uribe
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| Comoros | Azali Assoumani
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| Congo (Brazzaville) | Denis Sassou-Nguesso
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| Congo (Kinshasa) | Joseph Kabila
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| Costa Rica | Abel Pacheco
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| C?e d'Ivoire | Laurent Gbagbo | Seydou Diarra
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| Croatia | Stjepan Mesic | Ivo Sanader
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| Cuba | Fidel Castro
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| Cyprus | Tassos Papadopoulos
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| Czech Republic | V?lav Klaus | Vladim? ?pidla
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| Denmark | Margrethe II | Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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| Djibouti | Ismael Omar Guelleh | Dileita Mohamed Dileita
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| Dominica | Nicholas Liverpool | Roosevelt Skerrit
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| Dominican Republic | Hip?ito Mej?
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| East Timor | Xanana Gusm? | Mari Alkatiri
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| Ecuador | Lucio Guti?rez
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| Egypt | Hosni Mubarak | Atef Ebeid
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| El Salvador | Francisco Flores
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| Equatorial Guinea | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | C?dido Muatetema Rivas
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| Eritrea | Isaias Afewerki
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| Estonia | Arnold R?tel | Juhan Parts
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| Ethiopia | Girma Wolde-Giorgis | Meles Zenawi
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| Fiji | Josefa Iloilo | Laisenia Qarase
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| Finland | Tarja Halonen | Matti Vanhanen
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| France | Jacques Chirac | Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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| Gabon | Omar Bongo | Jean-Fran?is Ntoutoume Emane
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| Gambia | Yahya Jammeh
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| Georgia | Nino Burdzhanadze
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| Germany | Johannes Rau | Gerhard Schr?er
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| Ghana | John Kufuor
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| Greece | Costis Stephanopoulos | Costas Simitis
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| Grenada | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir Daniel Williams | Keith Mitchell
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| Guatemala | ?car Berger
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| Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Henrique Rosa | Guyana | Bharrat Jagdeo | Sam Hinds
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| Haiti | Jean-Bertrand Aristide | Yvon Neptune
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| Honduras | Ricardo Maduro
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| Hungary | Ferenc M?l | P?er Medgyessy
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| Iceland | ?afur Ragnar Gr?sson | Dav? Oddsson
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| India | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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| Indonesia | Megawati Sukarnoputri
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| Iran | Ali Khamenei (Rahbar - "leader"); Mohammad Khatami (president)
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| Iraq | Paul Bremer (civil administrator) and Adnan Pachachi (Iraqi Governing Council president)
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| Ireland | Mary McAleese | Bertie Ahern
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| Israel | Moshe Katsav | Ariel Sharon
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| Italy | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | Silvio Berlusconi
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| Jamaica | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir Howard Cooke | Percival Patterson
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| Japan | Akihito | Junichiro Koizumi
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| Jordan | Abdullah II | Faisal al-Fayez
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| Kazakhstan | Nursultan Nazarbayev | Daniyal Akhmetov
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| Kenya | Mwai Kibaki
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| Kiribati | Anote Tong
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| Korea (DPRK) | Kim Yong Nam ("Head of State for Foreign Affairs");
Kim Jong Il (highest administrative authority) | Pak Pong Ju
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| Korea (ROK) | Roh Moo-hyun | Goh Kun
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| Kuwait | Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah | Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah
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| Kyrgyzstan | Askar Akayev | Nikolai Tanayev
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| Laos | Khamtai Siphandon | Boungnang Vorachith
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| Latvia | Vaira Vike-Freiberga | Einars Repse
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| Lebanon | ?ile Lahoud | Rafiq Hariri
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| Lesotho | Letsie III | Pakalitha Mosisili
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| Liberia | Gyude Bryant
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| Libya | Mu'ammar Al Qathafi (de facto);
Zentani Muhammad az-Zentani (de jure) | Shukri Ghanem
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| Liechtenstein | Hans-Adam II | Otmar Hasler
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| Lithuania | Rolandas Paksas | Algirdas Brazauskas
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| Luxembourg | Henri | Jean-Claude Juncker
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| Republic of Macedonia | Boris Trajkovski | Branko Crvenkovski
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| Madagascar | Marc Ravalomanana | Jacques Sylla
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| Malawi | Bakili Muluzi
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| Malaysia | Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Maldives | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
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| Mali | Ahmed Mohamed Ag Hamani
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| Malta | Guido de Marco | Eddie Fenech Adami
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| Marshall Islands | Kessai Note
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| Mauritania | Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | Sghair Ould M'bareck
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| Mauritius | Anerood Jugnauth | Paul B?enger
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| Mexico | Vicente Fox
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| Micronesia | Joseph Urusemal
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| Moldova | Vladimir Voronin | Vasile Tarlev
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| Monaco | Rainier III | Patrick Leclercq
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| Mongolia | Natsagiyn Bagabandi | Nambaryn Enhbayar
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| Morocco | Mohammed VI | Driss Jettou
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| Mozambique | Joaquim Chissano | Pascoal Mocumbi
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| Myanmar | Than Shwe | Khin Nyunt
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| Namibia | Sam Nujoma | Theo-Ben Gurirab
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| Nauru | Ren?Harris
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| Nepal | Gyanendra | Surya Bahadur Thapa
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| Netherlands | Beatrix | Jan Peter Balkenende
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| New Zealand | Elizabeth II, represented by Dame Silvia Cartwright | Helen Clark
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| Nicaragua | Enrique Bola?s
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| Niger | Tandja Mamadou | Hama Amadou
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| Nigeria | Olusegun Obasanjo
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| Norway | Harald V | Kjell Magne Bondevik
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| Oman | Qaboos ibn Sa'id Al Sa'id
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| Pakistan | Pervez Musharraf | Zafarullah Khan Jamali
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| Palau | Tommy Remengesau
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| Panama | Mireya Moscoso
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| Papua New Guinea | Elizabeth II, represented by Bill Skate | Sir Michael Somare
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| Paraguay | Nicanor Duarte
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| Peru | Alejandro Toledo | Carlos Ferrero
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| Phillipines | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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| Poland | Aleksander Kwasniewski | Leszek Miller
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| Portugal | Jorge Sampaio | Jos?Manuel Dur? Barroso
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| Qatar | Hamad ibn Khalifah Al Thani | Abdallah ibn Khalifah Al Thani
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| Romania | Ion Iliescu | Adrian Nastase
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| Russia | Vladimir Putin | Mikhail Kasyanov
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| Rwanda | Paul Kagame | Bernard Makuza
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| St. Kitts and Nevis | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir Cuthbert Sebastian | Denzil Douglas
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| St. Lucia | Elizabeth II, represented by Dame Pearlette Louisy | Kenny Anthony
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir Frederick Ballantyne | Ralph Gonsalves
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| Samoa | Malietoa Tanumafili II | Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi
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| San Marino | Giovanni Lonfernini and Valeria Ciavatta
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| S? Tom?and Pr?cipe | Fradique de Menezes | Maria das Neves
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| Saudi Arabia | Fahd | Fahd (de jure), Abdullah (de facto)
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| Senegal | Abdoulaye Wade | Idrissa Seck
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| Serbia and Montenegro | Svetozar Marovic
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| Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
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| Singapore | S.R. Nathan | Goh Chok Tong
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| Slovakia | Rudolf Schuster | Mikul? Dzurinda
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| Slovenia | Janez Drnovsek | Anton Rop
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| Solomon Islands | Elizabeth II, represented by Sir John Lapli | Allan Kemakeza
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| Somalia | Abdulkassim Salat Hassan | Hasan Abshir Farah
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| South Africa | Thabo Mbeki
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| Spain | Juan Carlos I | Jos?Mar? Aznar
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| Sri Lanka | Chandrika Kumaratunga | Ranil Wickremesinghe
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| Sudan | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
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| Suriname | Ronald Venetiaan | Jules Ajodhia
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| Swaziland | Mswati III | Themba Dlamini
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| Sweden | Carl XVI Gustav | G?an Persson
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| Switzerland | Moritz Leuenberger, Pascal Couchepin, Joseph Deiss (President), Samuel Schmid, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Christoph Blocher, Hans-Rudolf Merz
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| Syria | Bashar al-Assad | Mohammed Naji al-Otari
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| Taiwan (ROC) | Chen Shui-bian | Yu Shyi-kun
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| Tajikistan | Emomali Rahmonov | Okil Okilov
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| Tanzania | Benjamin Mkapa | Frederick Sumaye
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| Thailand | Bhumibol Adulyadej | Thaksin Shinawatra
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| Togo | Gnassingb?Eyad?a | Koffi Sama
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| Tonga | Taufa'ahau Tupou IV | 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata
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| Trinidad and Tobago | Maxwell Richards | Patrick Manning
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| Tunisia | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Mohamed Ghannouchi
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| Turkey | Ahmet Necdet Sezer | Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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| Turkmenistan | Saparmurat Niyazov
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| Tuvalu | Elizabeth II, represented by Faimalaga Luka | Saufatu Sopoanga
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| Uganda | Yoweri Museveni | Apolo Nsibambi
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| Ukraine | Leonid Kuchma | Viktor Yanukovych
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| United Arab Emirates | Zayed ibn Sultan Al Nahayan | Maktum ibn Rashid Al Maktum
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| United Kingdom | Elizabeth II | Tony Blair
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| United States | George W. Bush
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| Uruguay | Jorge Batlle
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| Uzbekistan | Islam Karimov | Shavkat Mirziyayev
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| Vanuatu | John Bani | Edward Natapei
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| Vatican City | John Paul II | Angelo Cardinal Sodano
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| Venezuela | Hugo Ch?ez
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| Vietnam | Tran Duc Luong | Phan Van Khai
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| Yemen | Ali Abdallah Saleh | Abdul Qadir Bajamal
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| Zambia | Levy Mwanawasa
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| Zimbabwe | Robert Mugabe
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See also: Lists of incumbents, List of political parties, List of countries