Sunday 11 Jan 2015 - 15:01 Makkah mean time-20-3-1436
Paris (IINA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be attending a mass national rally for the 17 victims killed in Islamist attacks in France this week, AFP reported.
A diplomatic source told AFP that Abbas will be among a number of Arab leaders expected to descend upon the French capital for the rally. Leaders from around the world will also join the march in solidarity. Here is a list of world political figures who have confirmed their attendance: Albania - Prime Minister Edi Rama, Algeria - Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, Austria - Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, Belgium -Prime Minister Charles Michel,
Benin - President Thomas Boni Yayi, Britain -- Prime Minister David Cameron, Bulgaria - Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Canada - Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, Croatia - Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, Czech - Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, Denmark -- Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt,
Gabon - President Ali Bongo Ondimba, Georgia - Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Germany – Chancellor Angela Merkel, Greece - Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Hungary - Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Israel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Italy - Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Jordan - King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Latvia - Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma, Mali - President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Niger - President Mahamadou Issoufou, Palestine - President Mahmud Abbas, Portugal - Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, Romania - President Klaus Iohannis, Russia - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Spain - Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Switzerland - President Simonetta Sommaruga, The Netherlands - Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Tunisia - Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, Turkey - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, United Arab Emirates - Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, Ukraine - President Petro Poroshenko, United States - Attorney General Eric Holder, European Commission -- President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Parliament - President Martin Schulz, European Union - President Donald Tusk and NATO - Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Top European and U.S. security officials are also holding a special emergency meeting in Paris about fighting terrorism. The rally “must show the power, the dignity of the French people who will be shouting out of love of freedom and tolerance,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Saturday. “Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish,” he said. “The indignation must be absolute and total - not for three days only, but permanently.”
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