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Maithripala Sirisena
President of Sri Lanka from 2015 to 2019
Horst Seehofer
German politician (CSU) and former Federal Minister of the Interior (born 1949)
Valdis Dombrovskis
11th Prime Minister of Latvia
José Sócrates
Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011
Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Nepalese politician and former prime minister
Askar Akayev
1st and former President of Kyrgyzstan
Victor Ponta
63rd Prime Minister of Romania (2012-2015)
Antonis Samaras
Prime Minister of Greece (2012–2015)
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
former President of Vietnam
Luigi Di Maio
Italian politician (born 1986)
Alain Juppé
92nd Prime Minister of France (born 1945)
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
3rd President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008
Levon Ter-Petrosyan
first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998
Jakaya Kikwete
President of Tanzania from 2005 to 2015
Andrius Kubilius
Lithuanian politician (born 1956)
Mikhail Fradkov
Russian politician
Mulatu Teshome
former President of Ethiopia
Íngrid Betancourt
Colombian-French politician
Fuad Masum
7th President of the Republic of Iraq
Maria Elena Boschi
Italian lawyer and politician (born 1981)
Javier Solana
Spanish politician
Than Shwe
Burmese senior general and head of state of Myanmar of Myanmar from 1992 to 2011
Volodymyr Groysman
Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2016 to 2019
Bill English
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017