Biden's Rolodex

Not sure if these guys are on Biden's speed dial (some of them are deceased), but I thought it might be good to offer a partial list of the foreign leaders Biden has met, by country:

Iraq: Allawi, al-Jaafari, al-Maliki, Talabani, Massoud Barzani, Nechirvan Barzani

Israel: Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni

Palestinian Territories: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Ahmed Qurei

Jordan: King Hussein, King Abdullah

Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Anwar Sadat

Libya: Muammar Qaddafi

Lebanon: Prime Minister Rafiq Haririm, Najib Mikati

Bahrain: Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Syria: President Bashar al-Assad

Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ahmet Sezer, Abdullah Gul, Bulent Ecevit, Demirel

Greece: Kostis Stephanopoulos, Kostas Karamanlis, Kostantinos Mitsotakis, Andreas Papandreou

Cyprus: George Vassiliou, Glafcos Clerides

Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai

Pakistan: Asaf Ali Zardari, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif

India: Manmohan Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremasinghe

Russia: Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Gromyko, Alexey Kosygin, Leonid Brezhnev

France: Jacques Chirac, Dominique de Villepin, Fracois Mitterrand

U.K.: Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher

Ireland: Bertie Ahern, John Bruton, Albert Reynolds, Charles Haughey

Germany: Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schroeder, Helmut Kohl, Helmut Schmidt

Italy: Silvio Berlusconi, Romani Prodi, Cossiga Serbia Boris Tadic, Vojislav Kostunica, Zoran Djindjic, Slobodan Milosevic

Yugoslavia: Josip Broz Tito

Croatia: Franjo Tudjman Slovenia Janez Drnovsek, Ibrahim Rugova, Milan Kucan

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Haris Silajdzic, Sulejman Tihiae, Alija Izetbegovic

Kosovo (as an independent nation): Fatmir Sejdiu, Hashim Thaci

Poland: Lech Walesa, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz

Czech Republic: Vaclav Havel

Hungary: Gyula Horn, Arpad Goncz, Viktor Orban

Finland: Paavo Lipponen

Romania: Ion Iliescu

Georgia: Mikheil Saakashvili, Eduard Shevardnadze

Kazakhstan: Nursultan Nazarbayev

Ukraine: Viktor Yushchenko

Canada: Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney

NATO: George Robertson, Javier Solana, Manfred Woerner, Peter Carrington

China: Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji

Hong Kong: Tung Chee Hwa

Taiwan: Chen Shui-Bian

Korea: Kim Dae Jung

Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, Lee Hsien Loong

Indonesia: Megawati Sukarnoputri, Bambang Yudhoyono

Australia: John Howard, Paul Keating

Philippines: Gloria Arroyo, Fidel Ramos

Vietnam: Phan Van Kai

East Timor: Ramos Horta

Tibet: The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

Colombia: Alvaro Uribe, Andres Pastrana, Cesar Gaviria

Mexico: Vincente Fox, Ernesto Zedillo

Bolivia: Jaime Paz Zamora

South Africa: Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela

Liberia: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Lesotho: Leabua Jonathan

United Nations: Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros Ghali

Vatican City: Pope John Paul II

Slovakia: Rudolf Schuster

Turkmenistan: Saparmurat Niyazov


Sure beats a night out at a Mexican restaurant, huh?