From 21-23 May 2007, the InterAction Council held its 25th Annual Plenary Meeting in Vienna, Austria
List of Participants
IAC Members
1. H. E. Mr. Helmut Schmidt, Honorary Chairman (Former
Chancellor of Germany)
2. H. E. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Honorary Chairman (Former
Prime Minister of Australia)
3. H. E. Mr. Ingvar Carlsson, Co-chairman (Former Prime
Minister of Sweden)
4. H. E. Mr. Franz Vranitzky, Organising Chairman (Former
Chancellor of Austria)
5. H. E. Mr. Valdis Birkavs (Former Prime Minister of
Latvia)
6. H. E. Mr. James Bolger (Former Prime Minister of New
Zealand)
7. H. E. Mr. Jean Chrétien (Former Prime Minister of
Canada)
8. H. E. Mr. Gyula Horn (Former Prime Minister of
Hungary)
9. H. E. Mr. AbdelSalam Majali (Former Prime Minister of
Jordan)
10. H. E. Mr. Andrés Pastrana (Former President of
Colombia)
11. H. E. Mr. Yevgeny M. Primakov (Former Prime Minister
of Russia)
12. H. E. Mr. George Vassiliou (Former President of
Cyprus)
13. H. E. Mr. Richard von Weizsäcker (Former President of
Germany)
14. H. E. President Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria)
Associate Members
15. Prof. Thomas Axworthy, Professor, Centre for the Study
of Democracy, Queen’s University (Canada)
16. H. E. Mr. Jean André François-Poncet, President of the
Senatorial Committee on Regional Planning (France)
17. Prof. Hans Küng, Professor Emeritus, Tübingen
University (Switzerland)
18. H. E. Mr. Lee Seung-Yun, Former Deputy Prime Minister
of Korea (Korea)
Religious Leaders
19. Dr. Jawad Ahmad Al Anani, Former Deputy Prime Minister
and Foreign Minister (Sunni, Islam, Jordan)
20. Dr. Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne, President, Sarvodaya
Shramadana Movement (Theravada Buddhism, Sri Lanka)
21. Rev. Dr. Mettanando Bhikkhu, Special Advisor on the
Buddhist Affairs to the World Conference of Religions for
Peace (Theravada Buddhism, Thailand)
22. Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, St. Catherine’s
Monastery (Greek Orthodox, Greece)
23. Chief Rabbi Paul Chaim Eisenberg (Judaism, Austria)
24. Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami (Hinduism, India)
25. His Eminence Monshu Koshin Ohtani, Past President of
Japan Buddhist Federation, Monshu of Jodo Shinshu
Hongwanji-ha (Mahayana Buddhism, Japan)
26. Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush (Shia, Islam, Iran)
27. H. E. Bishop Herwig Sturm, Chairman of the National
Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria (Protestant,
Austria)
28. Dr. Tu Weiming, Harvard University (Confucianism,
China)
Special Guests
29. Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al-Quraishi, Chairman, Saudi-U.S.
Businessmen's Association (Saudi Arabia)
30. Ambassador Li Dayou, Former Ambassador to the U.S. and
UN (China)
31. Prof. Richard Norton, Professor, Boston University
(U.S.A.)
32. Mr. Qian Qichen, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former
Foreign Minister (China)
33. Mr. Masajuro Shiokawa, Former Minister of Finance
(Japan)
34. Mr. Seiken Sugiura, Former Minister of Justice
(Japan)
35. Mr. Walter Mondale, Former Vice President (U.S.A.)
Deputy Secretary-General
36. Prof. Nagao Hyodo, Former Ambassador to Belgium
(Japan)
The InterAction Council acknowledges with gratitude the
support given to the 25th Annual Meeting by the
Government of Austria, the Government of Japan, the
Government of Korea, Mr. William Laughlin and Bruno
Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue.