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 * List of VIP Guests and Dignitaries
 * 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
 * Beijing Olympic Stadium, Beijing, China
 * 08 August 2008

International organizations:
 * African Union – Commission President Alpha Oumar Konare
 * ASEAN – Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan
 * CIS – Secretary General Sergei Lebedev
 * 🇪🇺 European Union – High Commissioner Louis Michel
 * – President Jacques Rogge, former President Juan Antonio Samaranch, Vice President Thomas Bach, LOC President Liu Qi, and members of the committee (such as FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his predecessor Joao Havelange, and IAAF president Lamine Diack)
 * UNESCO - High Commissioner Audrey Azoulay
 * 🇺🇳 United Nations – General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto and Sports Commissioner Adolf Ogi

Host nation:
 * 🇨🇳 – President Hu Jintao and his wife Liu Yongqing, Premier Wen Jiabao and his wife Zhang Peili and his cabinet, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Vice President Xi Jinping, former president Jiang Zemin, former premiers Li Peng and Zhu Rongji, Future Prime Minister Li Keqiang as well as all members of the Politburo Standing Committee

Foreign dignitaries:
 * 🇦🇫 Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai
 * 🇦🇱 – Prime Minister Sali Berisha and wife
 * – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
 * 🇦🇩 – Head of Government Albert Pintat Santolària and wife
 * – President José Eduardo dos Santos and wife
 * 🇦🇲 – President Serzh Sargsyan
 * 🇦🇺 – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and wife Thérèse Rein
 * 🇦🇹 Austria – Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer
 * 🇦🇿 – President Ilham Aliyev and wife Mehriban Aliyeva
 * – Governor General Arthur Foulkes
 * 🇧🇭 Bahrain – Crown Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa
 * 🇧🇩 – Chief of Army Staff, General Moeen U Ahmed
 * 🇧🇾 Belarus – President Alexander Lukashenko
 * 🇧🇪 – The Duke of Brabant and Prime Minister Yves Leterme
 * 🇧🇦 – President Haris Silajdzic
 * 🇧🇷 – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
 * – Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Foreign Minister Lim Jock Seng
 * 🇧🇬 – President Georgi Parvanov
 * 🇧🇮 – President Pierre Nkurunziza
 * 🇰🇭 – King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen
 * 🇨🇦 – Foreign Minister David Emerson, Minister of State Helena Guergis, and Premier of British Columbia Province Gordon Campbell
 * 🇹🇩 – Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas
 * – Former Minister of the Interior Wu Po-hsiung, former Vice President Lien Chan, former Governor of Taiwan Province James Soong
 * 🇨🇩 – President Joseph Kabila
 * 🇨🇩 Congo – President Denis Sassou Nguesso
 * 🇨🇰 – Head of State Sir Frederick Goodwin and wife
 * – President Stjepan Mesić and spouse
 * 🇨🇺 – Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel
 * 🇨🇾 – President Demetris Christofias and wife
 * 🇨🇿 – Former President Vaclav Havel
 * – The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark
 * 🇩🇯 – Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita
 * 🇩🇲 Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – President Leonel Fernandez
 * 🇪🇨 – Vice President Lenin Moreno
 * 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea – President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
 * 🇪🇪 – Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
 * 🇪🇹 Ethiopia – Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
 * – Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama and wife
 * 🇫🇮 – Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
 * 🇫🇷 – President Nicolas Sarkozy and son Louis, President of the National Assembly Bernard Accoyer, and former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
 * 🇬🇦 – President Omar Bongo
 * 🇬🇲 Gambia – President Yahya Jammeh
 * 🇩🇪 – Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
 * Georgia – Former President Eduard Shevardnadze
 * 🇬🇭 – President John Agyekum Kufuor
 * 🇬🇷 – Foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis, Michael Liapis, former King Constantine II and his wife, Anne-Marie
 * 🇬🇺 – Governor Felix Camacho
 * – Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré
 * 🇭🇰 – Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang and Financial Secretary John Tsang
 * 🇭🇺 – President Laszlo Solyom and wife, former President Pal Schmitt
 * 🇮🇸 – President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
 * 🇮🇳 – President of the Indian National Congress (INC) Sonia Gandhi, General Secretary of the INC Rahul Gandhi, and Chief Election Commissioner M. S. Gill
 * 🇮🇩 Indonesia – Vice President Boediono
 * 🇮🇷 Iran - President Mahmood Ahmadinejad and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani
 * 🇮🇶 Iraq – President Jalal Talabani
 * 🇮🇪 – Sports Minister Martin Cullen
 * 🇮🇱 – President Shimon Peres and spouse
 * 🇮🇹 – Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini
 * 🇯🇴 Jordan – King Abdullah II and Queen Rania
 * 🇯🇵 – Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and wife
 * 🇰🇿 – President Nursultan Nazarbayev and wife
 * 🇰🇪 – Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka
 * Kosovo – Prime Minister Hashim Thaci
 * 🇰🇵 – Chairman of the Presidium Supreme Assembly Kim Yong Nam
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea – President Lee Myung-bak and wife Kim Yoon-ok
 * 🇰🇬 – President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
 * 🇱🇦 – President Choummaly Sayasone and wife
 * – President Valdis Zatlers and wife
 * 🇱🇧 – Prime Minister Saad Hariri and spouse
 * 🇱🇸 Lesotho – Prime Minister Tom Thabane
 * 🇱🇷 Liberia – Vice President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
 * 🇱🇾 Libya – Head of State Muammar Gaddafi
 * 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein – Prime Minister Otmar Hasler
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania – President Valdas Adamkus
 * 🇱🇺 – Grand Duke Henri, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Premier Jean-Claude Juncker
 * Macau – President Fernando Chui
 * – President Marc Ravalomanana and wife
 * 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands – Head of State Christopher Loeak
 * 🇲🇷 Mauritania – President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
 * 🇲🇾 – King King Mizan Zainal Abidin and Queen Nur Zahirah
 * 🇲🇼 Malawi – President Joyce Banda and former Chief Justice Richard Banda
 * undefined – President Amadou Toumani Touré and wife
 * 🇲🇺 – President Anerood Jugnauth and wife
 * 🇲🇽 – Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino and former President Ernesto Zedillo
 * 🇫🇲 – President Manny Mori
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova – President Vladimir Voronin
 * 🇲🇦 Morocco – Prince Moulay Rachid
 * – Head of State Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and his partner Charlene Wittstock
 * 🇲🇳 – President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and wife
 * 🇲🇪 – President Filip Vujanović and wife Svetlana
 * 🇲🇿 – President Armando Guebuza
 * 🇲🇲 Myanmar – President Thein Sein
 * 🇳🇦 Namibia – Former President Sam Nujoma
 * – The Prince of Orange and his wife Princess Máxima, and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
 * 🇳🇿 – Governor General Anand Satyanand and wife
 * 🇳🇬 Nigeria – Vice President Goodluck Jonathan
 * 🇳🇵 Nepal – Prime Minister Prachanda
 * 🇳🇴 – King Harald V and Queen Sonja
 * Palestine – Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
 * 🇵🇰 – Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
 * 🇵🇼 Palau – President Johnson Toribiong
 * 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea – Deputy Premier Peter O’Neill
 * $\phi$ – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and husband Jose Miguel Arroyo
 * 🇵🇱 – Senate President Bogdan Borusewicz
 * – President Aníbal Cavaco Silva
 * 🇶🇦 – Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani
 * Republika Srpska – President Dragan Covic
 * 🇷🇴 – President Traian Băsescu and wife
 * 🇷🇺 – President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
 * 🇷🇼 Rwanda – President Paul Kagame and wife
 * – Head of State Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi and wife
 * 🇸🇲 San Marino – Captain Regents Rosa Zafferani and her husband, and Federico Pedini Amati and his wife
 * – Prince Bandar bin Sultan
 * 🇸🇳 – Vice President Macky Sall
 * 🇷🇸 Serbia – President Boris Tadić and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić
 * – President James Alix Michel
 * – President S. R. Nathan and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
 * 🇸🇰 – President Ivan Gašparovič and wife
 * – Sports Minister Milan Zver
 * 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands – Prime Minister Allan Kemakeza
 * – President Thabo Mbeki and First Lady Zanele Mbeki
 * 🇪🇸 – The Prince and Princess of Asturias, and Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos
 * – President Mahinda Rajapaksa and wife Shiranthi
 * 🇸🇩 Sudan – President Omar al-Bashir
 * 🇸🇪 – King Carl XVI Gustaf, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
 * – President Pascal Couchepin and wife Brigitte
 * 🇸🇾 – President Bashar al-Assad
 * 🇹🇯 – President Emomalii Rahmon
 * 🇹🇭 – Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej
 * {{subst:undefined}} – President José Ramos-Horta
 * – President Faure Gnassingbé
 * 🇹🇴 – Crown Prince ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho and wife
 * 🇹🇲 – President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
 * 🇹🇷 – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
 * 🇺🇦 – President Viktor Yushchenko
 * 🇬🇧 – Princess Royal Anne, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and former prime minister Tony Blair
 * 🇺🇸 – President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush, Former President George H. W. Bush and wife Barbara Bush, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
 * 🇺🇿 – President Islam Karimov
 * – President Kalkot Mataskelekele, Prime Minister Ham Lini and their wives
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela – Vice President Nicolas Maduro
 * 🇻🇳 – President Nguyễn Minh Triết and spouse
 * 🇾🇪 Yemen – Deputy Premier Khaled Bahah
 * 🇿🇲 Zambia – President Michael Sata
 * 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe