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Binali Yıldırım
Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1955)
Armen Sarkissian
4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, one of the directors of Eurasia House, physicist, diplomat, politician (born 1953)
Joyce Banda
4th President of Malawi
Laurent Gbagbo
4th President of Ivory Coast
Nicos Anastasiades
Cypriot politician, 7th President of the Republic of Cyprus (2013–2023)
Jean Castex
Prime Minister of France from 2020 to 2022
Robert Kocharyan
former leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Armenia
Laura Chinchilla
46th President of Costa Rica
Stjepan Mesić
2nd President of the Republic of Croatia
Katalin Novák
President of Hungary from 2022 to 2024
Martin Schulz
German politician
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Portuguese politician (born 1939)
Jan Peter Balkenende
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010
Beata Szydło
Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland, member of European Parliament
Svetlana Savitskaya
Soviet cosmonaut
Giuliano Amato
Italian politician (born 1938)
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Icelandic politician, 5th President of Iceland
Lenín Moreno
President of Ecuador (2017 - 2021)
Horacio Cartes
49th President of Paraguay
Valdas Adamkus
Lithuanian politician, twice President of Lithuania (born 1926)
Patrice Talon
President of Benin between 2016 and 2026
Josep Borrell
Catalan-Spanish diplomat and politician (born 1947)
Ollanta Humala
President of Peru from 2011 to 2016
Alexander Schallenberg
Chancellor of Austria in 2021 and 2025