Biden Gets Around

Since Sarah Palin is a big girl now and met with her very first world leaders the other day, let's take a look at the list of world leaders Joe Biden has met in his 36 year career...


As of September 23, 2008
Senator Biden/Meetings with World Leaders

This is a partial list of world leaders that Senator Biden has met with at least once over his nearly 36 year career as a United States Senator. As mentioned, this list is not exhaustive. As chairman of the subcommittees on Europe and Africa earlier in his career, the list is certainly much longer. ****The dates listed indicate when the foreign leader was in office.

(Iraq) Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (May 2004 - April 2005)
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari (April 2005 - May 2006)
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (April 2006 - Present)
President Jalal Talabani (June 2005 - Present)
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani (June 2005 - Present)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (March 2006 - Present)
(Israel) Prime Minister Golda Meir (March 1969 - June 1974)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (July 1992 - November 1995)
Prime Minister Shimon Peres (November 1995 - June 1996)
Prime Minister Menachem Begin (June 1977 - October 1983)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (October 1986 - July 1992)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (June 1996 - July 1999)
Prime Minister Ehud Barak (June 1996 - July 1999)
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (March 2001 - April 2006)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (April 2006 - Present)
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (January 2006 - present)
(Palestinian Territories)
Chairman Yasser Arafat (September 1993 - November 2004)
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (November 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad (June 2007 - Present)
Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei (October 2003 - March 2006)
(Jordan) King Hussein (August 1952 - February 1999)
King Abdullah (August 2005-Present)
(Egypt) President Hosni Mubarak (October 1981 - Present)
President Anwar Sadat (October1970 - October 1981)
(Libya) Prime Minister Col. Muammar Qaddafi (March 1977 - March 1979)
(Lebanon) Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (October 1992 - December 1998)
Prime Minister Najib Mikati (April 2005 - July 2005)
(Bahrain) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (March 1999 - Present)
(Syria) President Bashar al-Assad (July 2000 - Present)
(Turkey) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (March 2003 - Present)
President Ahmet Sezer (May 2000 - August 2007)
Prime Minister/President* Abdullah Gul (November 2002 - March 2003, Current President)
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit (January 1999 - May 1999)
Prime Minister Demirel (November 1991 - June 1993)
(Greece) President Kostis Stephanopoulos (March 1995 - March 2005)
Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis (March 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister Kostantinos Mitsotakis (April 1990 - October 1993)
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou (October 1981 - July 1989)(October 1993 - January 1996)
(Cyprus) President George Vassiliou (February 1988 - February 1993)
President Glafcos Clerides (February 1993 - February 2003)
(Afghanistan) President Hamid Karzai (December 2001 - Present)
(Pakistan) President Asif Ali Zardari (September 2008 - Present)
*Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani (March 2008 - Present)
President Pervez Musharraf (June 2001 - August 2008)
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (December 1988 - August 1990, October 1993 - November 1996)
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (November 1990 - July 1993, February 1997 - October 1999)
(India) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (May 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (May 1996 - June 1996)(March 1998 - May 2004)
(Sri Lanka) Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe (May 1993 - August 1994)(December 2001 - April 2004)
(Russia) President Vladimir Putin (May 2000 - May 2008; current Prime Minister)
President Boris Yeltsin (July 1991 - December 1999)
Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev (March 1990 - December 1991)
Soviet Union President Andrei Gromyko (July 1985 - October 1988)
Premier of the Soviet Union Alexey Kosygin (October 1964 - October 1980)
Premier of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev (May 1960 - July 1964)
(France) President Jacques Chirac (May 1995 - May 2007)
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (May 2005 - May 2007)
President Francois Mitterrand (May 1981 - May 1995)
(U.K) Queen Elizabeth (February 1952 - Present)
Prime Minister Tony Blair (May 1997 - June 2007)
Prime Minister John Major (November 1990 - May 1997)
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (May 1979 - November 1990)
(Ireland) Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (June 1997 - Present)
Prime Minister John Bruton (December 1994 - June 1997)
Prime Minister Albert Reynolds (February 1992 - December 1994)
Prime Minister Charles Haughey (December 1979 - June 1981)(March 1982 - December 1982)(March 1987 - February 1992)
(Germany) Chancellor Angela Merkel (November 2005 - Present)
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (October 1998 - November 2005)
Chancellor Helmut Kohl (October 1982 - October 1998)
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (May 1974 - October 1982)
(Italy) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (June 2001 - May 2006)(May 2008 - Present)
Prime Minister Romano Prodi (May 2006 - May 2008)
Prime Minister Cossiga (July 1989 - April 1992)
(Serbia) President of Serbia Boris Tadic (July 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica (March 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Djindjic (January 2001 - March 2003)
President of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic (May 1989 - July 1997)
(Yugoslavia) Premier of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito (January 1953 - May 1980)
(Croatia) President of Croatia Franjo Tudjman (May 1990 - December 1999)
(Slovenia) Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Drnovsek (December 2002 - Present)
President of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova (March 2002 - January 2006)
President of Slovenia Milan Kucan (October 1991 - December 2002)
(Bosnia and Herzegovina) President of Bosnia Haris Silajdzic (November 2006 - Present)
President of Bosnia Sulejman Tihić (October 2002 - November 2006)
President of Bosnia Alija Izetbegovic (March 1992 - October 2000)
(Kosovo (as an independent nation)) President Fatmir Sejdiu (January 2008 - Present)
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci (January 2008 - Present)
(Poland) President Lech Walesa (December 1990 - December 1995)
Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz (October 1993 - March 1995)
(Czech Republic) President Vaclav Havel (February 1993 - February 2003)
(Hungary) Prime Minister Gyula Horn (July 1994 - July 1998)
President Arpad Goncz (August 1990 - August 2000)
Prime Minister Viktor Orban (July 1998 - May 2002)
(Finland) Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen (April 1995 - April 2003)
(Romania) President Ion Iliescu (December 1989 - November 1996)
(Georgia) President Mikheil Saakashvili (January 2004 - Present)
President Eduard Shevardnadze (October 1995 - November 2003)
(Kazakhstan) President Nursultan Nazarbayev (December 1991 - Present)
(Ukraine) President Viktor Yushchenko (January 2005 - Present)
(Canada) Prime Minister Paul Martin (December 2003 - February 2006)
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (September 1984 - June 1993)
(NATO) Secretary General Lord George Robertson (October 1999 - January 2004)
Secretary General Javier Solana (December 1995 - October 1999)
Secretary General Manfred Woerner (July 1988 - August 1994)
Secretary General Lord Peter Carrington (June 1984 - July 1988)
(China) President Jiang Zemin (March 1993 - March 2003)
Premier Zhu Rongji (March 1998 - March 2003)
(Hong Kong) Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa (July 1997 - March 2005)
(Taiwan) President Chen Shui-Bian (May 2000 - Present)
(Korea) President Kim Dae Jung (February 1998 - February 2003)
(Singapore) Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (June 1959 - November 1990)
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong (November 1990 - August 2004)
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (August 2004 - Present)
(Indonesia) President Megawati Sukarnoputri (July 2001 - October 2004)
President Bambang Yudhoyono (October 2004 - Present)
(Australia) Prime Minister John Howard (March 1996 - December 2007)
Prime Minister Paul Keating (December 1991 - March 1996)
(Philippines) President Gloria Arroyo (January 2001 - Present)
President Fidel Ramos (June 1992 - June 1998)
(Vietnam) Prime Minister Phan Van Kai (September 1997 - June 2006)
(East Timor) President Ramos Horta (May 2007 - Present)
(Tibet) The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (1950 - Present)
(Colombia) President Alvaro Uribe (August 2002 - Present)
President Andres Pastrana (August 1998 - August 2002)
President Cesar Gaviria (August 1990 - August 1994)
(Mexico) President Vincente Fox (December 2000 - December 2006)
President Ernesto Zedillo (December 1994 - November 2000)
(Bolivia) President Jaime Paz Zamora (August 1989 - August 1993)
(South Africa) President Thabo Mbeki (June 1999 - September 2008)
President Nelson Mandela (April 1994 - June 1999)
(Liberia) President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (January 2006 - Present)
(Lesotho) Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan (July 1965 - January 1986)
(United Nations) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (January 2007 - Present)
Secretary General Kofi Annan (January 1997 - January 2007)
Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali (January 1992 - January 1997)
(Vatican City) Pope John Paul II (October 1978 - April 2005)
(Slovakia) President Rudolf Schuster (June 1999 - June 2004)
(Turkmenistan) President Saparmurat Niyazov (October 1990 - December 2006)
*Senator Biden met with leader before he or she became head of state.

(from washingtonpost.com)