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Who’s going to Beijing May 14-15?

May 8, 2017 (EIRNS)—As of today, 28 heads of state have committed themselves to attending the Belt and Road Initiative conference May 14-15 in Beijing:

- Argentinean President Mauricio Macri,
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet
- Czech President Milos Zeman
- Indonesian President Joko Widodo
- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
- Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Swiss President Doris Leuthard
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang
- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn
- Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama
- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
- Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni
- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
- Mongolian Prime Minister Jargaltulga Erdenebat
- Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi
- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
- Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo
- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic
- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and
- Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
- Japan—Toshihiro Nikai, #2 to Japan PM in LDP