The InterAction Council held its 24th Annual Plenary Meeting in the Dead Sea, Jordan, from 2-4 May 2006.
List of Participants
IAC Members
1. H. E. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Honorary Chairman
(Germany)
2. H. E. Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, Co-chairman
(Sweden)
3. H. E. Prime Minister AbdelSalam Majali, Organizing
Chairman (Jordan)
4. H. E. Prime Minister Andreas M. van Agt (the
Netherlands)
5. H. E. Prime Minister Esko Aho (Finland)
6. H. E. Prime Minister Valdis Birkavs (Latvia)
7. H. E. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Canada)
8. H. E. President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
(Indonesia)
9. H. E. President Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador)
10. H. E. President Andrés Pastrana (Colombia)
11. H. E. Prime Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov (Russia)
12. H. E. President Jerry John Rawlings (Ghana)
13. H. E. President José Sarney (Brazil)
14. H. E. President George Vassiliou (Cyprus)
Associate Members
15. H. E. Mr. Jean André François-Poncet, President of the
Senatorial Committee on Regional Planning (France)
16. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, M.P., Former Chief Cabinet Secretary
(Japan)
17. Baroness Jay, Chairperson of the Overseas Development
Institute, London (U. K.)
18. Prof. Hans Küng, Professor Emeritus, Tübingen
University (Switzerland)
19. H. E. Dr. Lee Seung-Yun, Former Deputy Prime Minister
of Korea (Korea)
Special Guests
20. H. E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, Foreign Minister and President
of the 60th UN General Assembly Session (Sweden)
21. H. E. Mr. Taher Masri, Former Prime Minister
(Jordan)
22. Prof. Michael Adler, Royal Free and University College
(U. K)
23. Dr. Reuven Aharoni, Former Fellow Teacher, Tel Aviv
University (Israel)
24. Ambassador Tatsuo Arima, Special Envoy of the
Government of Japan to the Middle East (Japan)
25. Mr. Bassem Awadallah, Director of His Majesty’s Office
(Jordan)
26. H. E. Dr. Munther Haddadin, Former Minister of Water
and Irrigation (Jordan)
27. H. E. Dr. Nabeel Kassis, Former Minister of Planning
and Tourism (Palestine)
28. Mr. Kunio Katakura, Former Ambassador to Egypt and
Iraq (Japan)
29. H. E. Mr. Abdelelah Khatib, Foreign Minister
(Jordan)
30. Mr. Julius Liljeström, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Sweden)
31. H. E. Dr. Amin Mahmoud, Former Minister of Culture
(Jordan)
32. H. E. Mr. Samer Majali, CEO and President of the Royal
Jordanian Airlines (Jordan)
33. Mr. Fouad Makhzoumi, Chairman, Future Pipe Group,
Founder, The Makhzoumi Foundation (Lebanon)
34. H. E. Mr. Amre M. Moussa, Secretary-General, League of
Arab States (Egypt)
35. Dr. Ahmad S. Moussalli, Professor, American University
of Beirut (Lebanon)
36. Dr. Richard Norton, Professor of Anthropology and
International Relations, Boston University (U. S. A.)
37. Mr. Dong Soon Park, Former Ambassador to Jordan and
Israel (Korea)
38. Dr. Georgy Petrov, Vice President, Chamber of Commerce
and Industry of the Russian Federation (Russia)
39. H. E. Mr. Qian Qichen, Former Deputy Prime Minister,
Former Foreign Minister (China)
40. Dr. Jairam Reddy, Director, International Leadership
Institute, United Nations University (Jordan)
41. Mr. Ayman Safadi, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Al-Ghad
Newspaper (Jordan)
42. Prof. Amin Saikal, Director, Centre for Arab and
Islamic Studies, The Middle East & Central Asia,
Faculty of Arts, Australian National University
(Australia)
43. H. E. Mr. Nabiih Shequem, Secretary General and
Director of the American and European Affairs
Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Jordan)
44. Dr. Henry Siegman, Council on Foreign Affairs (U. S.
A)
45. H. E. Mr. Seiken Sugiura, Minister of Justice
(Japan)
46. Dr. Samir Taqi, Strategic Research Center at Damascus
University (Syria)
47. Prof. Teizo Taya, Rikkyo University (Japan)
48. Dr. Walid Turk, Former Dean of the Faculty of
Pharmaceuticals (Jordan)
49. H. E. Mr. Moneef R. Zou’bi, Director General, Islamic
World Academy of Sciences (Jordan)
Secretariat
50. Ambassador Makram Queisi, Chief of Protocol, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs (Jordan)
51. Prof. Isamu Miyazaki, Secretary-General (Japan)
52. Prof. Nagao Hyodo, Tokyo Keizai University, Deputy
Secretary-General (Japan)