Biden vs. Palin on International Experience and Heads of State Dialogues

Senator Biden has met with the leaders of nearly 60 countries, territories and international organizations (such as theUnited Nations and NATO.) The list of names runs to about 150 people --including nine Israeli prime ministers (ten if you including primeminister designate Tzipi Livni), four Soviet leaders and two Russian presidents, a few kings and a queen (of England), Pope John Paul II andthe Dalai Lama, and even a few tough guys like Libyan leader MoammarGaddafi and Serbian president Sloban Milosevic. He has been in the Senate for 36 years. A Vice President should be experienced.

Iraq Allawi, al-Jaafari, al-Maliki, Talabani, Massoud Barzani,
Nechirvan Barzani

Israel Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni

Palestinian Territories Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Ahmed Qurei

Jordan King Hussein, King Abdullah

Egypt Hosni Mubarak, Anwar Sadat

Libya Muammar Qaddafi
Lebanon Prime Minister Rafiq Haririm, Najib Mikati

Bahrain Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Syria President Bashar al-Assad

Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ahmet Sezer, Abdullah Gul, Bulent Ecevit, Demirel

Greece Kostis Stephanopoulos, Kostas Karamanlis, Kostantinos Mitsotakis, Andreas PapandreouCyprus George Vassiliou, Glafcos Clerides

Afghanistan Hamid Karzai

Pakistan Asaf Ali Zardari, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif

India Manmohan Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremasinghe

Russia Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Gromyko, Alexey Kosygin, Leonid Brezhnev

France Jacques Chirac, Dominique de Villepin, Fracois Mitterrand

U.K. Queen Elizabeth. Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher

Ireland Bertie Ahern, John Bruton, Albert Reynolds, Charles Haughey

Germany Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schroeder, Helmut Kohl, Helmut Schmidt

Italy Silvio Berlusconi, Romani Prodi, Cossiga Serbia Boris Tadic, Vojislav Kostunica, Zoran Djindjic, Slobodan Milosevic

Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito

Croatia Franjo Tudjman Slovenia Janez Drnovsek, Ibrahim Rugova, Milan Kucan

Bosnia and Herzegovina Haris Silajdzic, Sulejman Tihiae, Alija Izetbegovic

Kosovo (as an independent nation) Fatmir Sejdiu, Hashim Thaci

Poland Lech Walesa, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz

Czech Republic Vaclav Havel

Hungary Gyula Horn, Arpad Goncz, Viktor Orban

Finland Paavo Lipponen

Romania Ion Iliescu

Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, Eduard Shevardnadze

Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev

Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko

Canada Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney

NATO George Robertson, Javier Solana, Manfred Woerner, Peter Carrington

China Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji
Hong Kong Tung Chee Hwa
Taiwan Chen Shui-Bian
 
Korea Kim Dae Jung
 
Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, Lee Hsien Loong

Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri, Bambang Yudhoyono

Australia John Howard, Paul Keating
 
Philippines Gloria Arroyo, Fidel Ramos

Vietnam Phan Van Kai

East Timor Ramos Horta
 
Tibet The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
 
Colombia Alvaro Uribe, Andres Pastrana, Cesar Gaviria

Mexico Vincente Fox, Ernesto Zedillo

Bolivia Jaime Paz Zamora

South Africa Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela

Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Lesotho Leabua Jonathan

United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros Ghali

Vatican City Pope John Paul II

Slovakia Rudolf Schuster

Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov

(courtesy: Office of Senator Joe Biden)