CAIRO, Nov 11: Egypt will host a military funeral for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday before he is buried in the West Bank. The following is a list of world leaders and dignitaries who are expected to attend the funeral:

AFGHANISTAN - Vice President Hedayat Amin Arsala

ALGERIA - President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

ARAB LEAGUE - Secretary-General Amr Moussa

AUSTRIA - Vice-Chancellor Hubert Gorbach

BANGLADESH - President Iajuddin Ahmed

BELGIUM -Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht

BOSNIA - Prime Minister Adnan Terzic

BRAZIL - Cabinet Chief Jose Dirceu

BULGARIA - Foreign Minister Solomon Passy

CANADA - Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew

CHINA - Vice Premier Hui Liangyu

CROATIA - Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul

DENMARK - Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller

EGYPT - President Hosni Mubarak

EUROPEAN UNION - Foreign policy chief Javier Solana

FINLAND - Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja

FRANCE - Foreign Minister Michel Barnier

GERMANY - Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer

GREECE - Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis

HUNGARY - Foreign Minister Ferenc Somogyi

INDIA - Minister of State for External Affairs Edappakath Ahamed

INDONESIA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

IRAN - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi

IRAQ - Vice-President Rowsch Shways

ITALY - Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Alfredo Mantica

JORDAN - King Abdullah

LEBANON - President Gen Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud

MOROCCO - Prince Moulay Rachid, King Mohammed's younger brother

PAKISTAN - Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz

POLAND - Senate Speaker Longin Pastusiak, Deputy Foreign Minister Boguslaw Zaleski

PORTUGAL - Foreign Minister Antonio Monteiro

ROMANIA - Presidential Adviser Simona Miculescu

RUSSIA - State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov

SOUTH AFRICA - President Thabo Mbeki

SPAIN - Foreign Minister Angel Moratinos

SWEDEN - Prime Minister Goran Persson

TURKEY - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Speaker of the Federal National Council Mohammed Saeed

UNITED KINGDOM - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw

UNITED NATIONS - Special representative for the Middle East peace process Terje Roed-Larsen

UNITED STATES - Assistant Secretary of State William Burns

YEMEN - President Ali Abdullah Saleh

ZIMBABWE - President Robert Mugabe -Reuters