Calling all Heads of State!

• Champion long distance runners from Kenya and Ethiopia, Paul Tergat and Haile Gebrselassie, will run for a mine-free world on Saturday 25 November.
• Prince Mired Bin Ra'ad of Jordan will open a summit of landmine survivors on 26 November.
• Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams will address delegates at an opening ceremony on Sunday 26 November.
• Five Nobel Peace Prize laureates will talk about building peace in today's troubled world on 1 December. More...
• Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, heads of UN agencies and other high level delegates will speak on the closing days of the Summit, 2 and 3 December.

It is hoped that these VIPs will use the opportunity to renew political and financial commitments to the Mine Ban Treaty and undertake to continue their important work to eliminate antipersonnel landmines.

Please visit our Nairobi Summit page.

VIPs confirmed so far...

Governments

ICBL Ambassadors, Jody Williams and Tun Channareth will be in Nairobi but what of other leaders in the 'Ottawa process' and the Mine Ban Treaty? Picture taken at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, Oslo, December 1997.

• Australia: Mr Bruce Billson, MP, Special Representative on Mine Action
• Austria: Mr Peiter Jankovitsch, Former Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the Austrian government
• Belgium: Secretary of State for European Affairs Didier Donfut
• Bosnia & Herzegovina: Minister of Civil Affairs Safet Halilovic
• Cambodia: Deputy Prime Minister Minister in Charge of Office of Council of Ministers and Vice President, Cambodian Mine Action Authority H.E. Sok An
• Canada: Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew and a delegation of Parliamentarians
• Colombia: Vice-President Francisco Santos Calderón
• Costa Rica: Minister of Foreign Relations and Religion Hon. Roberto Tovar Faja
• Croatia: Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Miomir Zuzul
• Czech Republic: Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Cyril Svoboda
• Djibouti: Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mr. Abro Ahmed
• France: Minister delegate for Cooperation, Development and Francophony Xavier Darcos
• Germany: Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Kerstin Müller
• Guatemala: Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Carlos Ramiro Martinez
• Italy: Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Alfredo Mantica
• Kenya: President Mwai Kibaki, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka
• Lithuania: Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Antanas Valionis
• Mexico: Under Secretary for Multilateral and Human Rights Issues Patricia Olamendi
• Malaysia: Secretary General of Ministry of Defense Hon. Dato Sri Subhan Jasmon
• Mozambique: Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Leonardo Santos Simao
• New Zealand: Minister for Disarmament Hon Marian Hobbs
• Netherlands: Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Frank Majoor
• Norway: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vidar Helgesen
• Slovakia: Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Eduard Kukan
• Slovenia: Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Dimitrij Rupel
• Sudan:Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hon. Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, Minister of Defense Hon. Ahmed Mohamed Ali and Minister of Foreign Relations, Hon. Nagib El Khier Abdelwahab
• Switzerland: Secretary of State Franz von Daineken
• Tajikistan: Deputy Prime Minister
• Thailand: Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Suwat Liptapanlop
• Uganda: President Museveni
• Yemen:Minister of State and Chairman of the National Mine Action Committee Qassem Al-Ajem
• Zambia: Minister of Foreigh Affairs Hon. Kalombo Mwansa

...Other world leaders

Other important people who've confirmed participation include: 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Wiliams (ICBL Ambassador and founding coordinator), 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, 2004 Nobel Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, ICRC President Jackob Kellenberger, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, and UNICEF and UNDP chiefs: Carol Belamy and Mark Malloch Brown.