The following is a list of world leaders expected to attend the funeral in Amman today:
Austria - President Thomas Klestil; Belgium - King Albert and Queen Paola; Britain - Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair; Denmark - Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe; Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen; Egypt - President Hosni Mubarak; France - President Jacques Chirac; Germany - Chancellor Gerhard Schroder; Iraq - Vice-President Taha Mohieddin Ma'rouf; Ireland - President McAleese and Minister for the Marine Michael Woods; Israel - President Ezer Weizman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, opposition Labour party leader Ehud Barak, former prime minister Shimon Peres, former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and Leah Rabin, widow of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin; Italy - President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro; Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi; Lebanon - Deputy Prime Minister Michel al-Murr; Morocco - Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed; Netherlands - Queen Beatrix, Prime Minister Wim Kok; Oman - Sultan Qaboos; Paki- stan - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif; Palestinian Territories President Yasser Arafat; Russia President Boris Yeltsin (possibly); Saudi Arabia - Crown Prince Abdullah; South Africa - Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi;
Spain - King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia; Turkey - President Suleyman Demirel, Foreign Minister Ismail Cem; UN - SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan; US President Clinton and Mrs Clinton; former presidents George Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.