Nelson Mandela, Upacara Penghormatannya Dihadiri Sederet Pemimpin Dunia
A Who`s Who of World Leaders at Nelson Mandela`s Memorial Service
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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PEMIMPIN dunia berduyun-duyun datang menghadiri acara penghormatan atas wafatnya Nelson Mandela di Afrika Selatan, hari ini (10/12) tak ubahnya panggung Who´s Who pemimpin dunia di bidang politik, bisnis, musik dan fashion, tapi dalam daftar tamu negara tidak tercantum Menko Kesra Agung Laksono yang diutus oleh Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ke Afrika Selatan.
Ketika puluhan ribu warga Afrika Selatan berkumpul dalam kesedihan, bercampur bangga pada upacara penghormatan bagi mendiang pejuang anti-apartheid kebanggaan di stadion Piala Dunia Soweto, mereka berkumpul bersama para presiden, pemimpin agama, raja, ratu dan pangeran untuk menghormati ikon global dari Afrika Selatan, sep[erti dilansir Mail Online.
Mewakili AS, Presiden Barack Obama terbang untuk menghadiri upacara penghormatan terhadap ikon anti-apartheid yang meninggal pekan lalu pada usia 95.
Air Force One mendarat di sebuah pangkalan militer di dekat Johannesburg pada pagi yang basah karena hujan.
Bergabung dengan Obama pada perjalanan selama 16 jam dari Washington adalah first lady Michelle Obama, mantan Presiden George W. Bush dan istrinya, Laura, dan mantan Menteri Luar Negeri Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Mantan Presiden Bill Clinton dan Jimmy Carter juga dijadwalkan untuk menghadiri upacara peringatan, tapi keduanya bertolak ke Afrika Selatan secara terpisah.
Presiden Prancis Francois Hollande dan pendahulunya Nicolas Sarkozy akan hadir seperti halnya Presiden Jerman, Joachim Gauck.
Presiden Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe dan Presiden Kuba Raul Castro juga tampak hadir di stadion.
Presiden Otoritas Palestina Mahmoud Abbas juga diundang hadir, tapi pemimpin tertinggi Israel tidak tampak di antara para pemimpin global.
Israel mengumumkan Perdana Menteri Benjamin Netanyahu maupun Presiden Shimon Peres tidak hadir karena alasan biaya perjalanan dan alasan kesehatan.
Jutawan Sir Richard Branson, supermodel Naomi Campbell dan musisi Bono, Annie Lennox dan Peter Gabriel adalah para bintang yang diharapkan hadir pada upacara peringatan.
Sir Richard dan penyanyi Peter Gabriel merancang forum ´The Elders´ bagi negarawan dan aktivis yang didirikan oleh Mandela.
Penyanyi U2 dan aktivis Bono, 53 mengatakan ikon anti-apartheid telah menginspirasinya untuk kampanye melawan AIDS dan kemiskinan dunia.
Dia mengambil tempat duduk di samping aktris Afrika Selatan Charlize Theron.
Campbell, 43, yang digambarkan Mandela sebagai ´cucu kehormatan´ nya, telah membantu mengumpulkan uang untuk Dana Nelson Mandela Children dan bekas partai politiknya, Kongres Nasional Afrika.
Pemenang penghargaan Grammy Annie Lennox, 58, memiliki hubungan panjang dengan Mr Mandela setelah tampil di konser ulang tahun ke 70 pada 1988.
Presenter kondang Oprah Winfrey juga akan berada di sana.
Tiga mantan Perdana Menteri Inggris - Sir John Major, Tony Blair dan Gordon Brown - bergabung dengan PM David Cameron pada upacara peringatan resmi.
Hal ini dianggap pertama kalinya selama bertahun-tahun bahwa perdana menteri Inggris maupun para mantan melakukan perjalanan ke sebuah acara di luar negeri bersama-sama, dan mencerminkan rasa hormat yang mendalam kepada Mandela dalam politik Inggris.
Obama akan memimpin upacara penghormatan bersama Sekjen PBB Ban Ki-moon.
Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin, yang tidak hadir, menggambarkan Mandela sebagai ´humanis besar´ ketika ia menandatangani buku belasungkawa di kedutaan Afrika Selatan di Moskow.
Setelah menandatangani buku, Putin menundukkan kepalanya di depan potret Mandela dan menyampaikan belasungkawa kepada Duta Besar Afrika Selatan Mandisi Mpahlwa.
Di pemakaman pada hari Minggu, tamu politik akan mencakup Menteri Luar Negeri Ceko Jan kohout - yang mewakili negaranya menggantikan perdana menteri Jiri Rusnok.
Rusnok dipaksa untuk meminta maaf setelah dia mengatakan: ´. Idenya membuat saya menggigil´
Presiden Afrika Selatan Jacob Zuma akan memberikan pidato utama dan mantan Presiden Afrika Selatan FW de Klerk berperan penting dalam karier politik Mandela.
Keluarga Mandela dan teman-teman juga akan berbicara pada upacara tersebut.
Daftar Pemimpin Dunia yang Hadiri Mandela Memorial
- Presiden Afghanistan Hamid Karzai.
- Angola Wakil Presiden Manuel Vincent.
- Argentina Amado Boudou Penjabat Presiden.
- Perdana Menteri Australia Tony Abbott.
- Perdana Menteri Bahama ´Perry Christie.
- Bangladesh Presiden Abdul Hamid.
- Perdana Menteri Belgia Elio di Rupo dan Raja Philippe.
- Benin Boni Yayi Presiden.
- Presiden Botswana Seretse Khama Ian.
- Presiden Brazil Dilma Rousseff dan tiga pendahulunya, Luiz Inacio Lula termasuk da Silva.
- Perdana Menteri Inggris David Cameron, Wakil PM Nick Clegg dan mantan Perdana Menteri Tony Blair.
- Presiden Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza.
- Perdana Menteri Kanada Stephen Harper dan tiga pendahulunya.
- Presiden Chad Idriss Deby.
- Wakil Presiden China Li Yuanchao.
- Comoros ´Presiden Ikiliou Dhoinine.
- Presiden Kongo Joseph Kabila.
- Presiden Kroasia Ivo Josipovic.
- Presiden Kuba Raul Castro.
- Menteri Luar Negeri Ceko Jan kohout.
- Perdana Menteri Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt dan Pangeran Frederik.
- Presiden Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh.
- Perdana Menteri Timor Leste Xanana Gusmao.
- Menteri Luar Negeri El Salvador Jaime Miranda.
- Equatorial Guinea Presiden Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
- Perdana Menteri Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn.
- Presiden Komisi Eropa Jose Manuel Barroso.
- Presiden Dewan Uni Eropa Herman Van Rompuy.
- Presiden Finlandia Sauli Niinisto.
- Presiden Prancis Francois Hollande dan pendahulunya Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Gabon Presiden Ali Bongo Ondimba.
- Presiden Gambia Yahya Jammeh.
- Presiden Jerman Joachim Gauck.
- Presiden Ghana John Dramani Mahama.
- Presiden Guinea Alpha Conde.
- Presiden Guyana Donald Ramotar.
- Presiden Haiti Michel Martelly dan Perdana Menteri Laurent Lamothe.
- Presiden India Pranab Mukherjee dan pemimpin partai Kongres Sonia Ghandi.
- Menteri Luar Negeri Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif.
- Presiden Irlandia Michael Higgins.
- Perdana Menteri Italia Enrico Letta.
- Presiden Pantai Gading Allasane Ouattara.
- Perdana Menteri Jamaika Portia Simpson Miller.
- Jepang Putra Mahkota Naruhito dan mantan Perdana Menteri Yasuo Fukuda.
- Yordania Ratu Rania dan Perdana Menteri Abdullah Ensour.
- Presiden Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta.
- Caretaker Lebanon Perdana Menteri Najib Mikati.
- Perdana Menteri Lesotho Thomas Thabane.
- Presiden Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
- Presiden Malawi Joyce Banda.
- Menteri Energi Malaysia Maximus Ongkili.
- Perdana Menteri Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Mauritius ´.
- Presiden Meksiko Pena Nieto.
- Maroko Pangeran Moulay Rachid.
- Mozambik Armando Emilio Presiden Guebuza.
- Presiden Namibia Hifikepunye Pohamba.
- Menteri Luar Negeri Nepal Madhav Prassad Ghimire.
- Menteri Luar Negeri Belanda ´Frans Timmermans dan Raja Willem-Alexander.
- Presiden Niger Mahamadou Issoufou.
- Presiden Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan.
- Perdana Menteri Norwegia Erna Solberg dan Putra Mahkota Haakon.
- Presiden Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain.
- Presiden Palestina Mahmoud Abbas.
- Filipina Jejomar Binay Wakil Presiden.
- Menteri Luar Negeri Polandia Radek Sikorski dan mantan Presiden Lech Walesa.
- Presiden Portugis Cavaco Silva.
Wakil Perdana Menteri Saudi-Arabia Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud -.
- Presiden Senegal Macky Sall.
- Presiden Serbia Tomislav Nicolic.
- Seychelles James Michel Presiden.
- Menteri Luar Negeri Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak.
- Presiden Slovenia Borut Pahor.
- Perdana Menteri Korea Selatan Chung Hongwon.
- Presiden Sudan Selatan Salva Kir Mayardi.
- Perdana Menteri Spanyol Mariano Rajoy dan Pangeran Felipe.
- Presiden Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa.
- Wakil Presiden Sudan Bakri Hassan Saleh.
- Presiden Suriname Desire Delan Bouterse.
- Perdana Menteri Swaziland Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini.
- Perdana Menteri Swedia Fredrik Reinfeldt dan Putri Victoria.
- Presiden Swiss Ulrich Maurer.
- Presiden Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete.
- Trinidad dan Tobago Perdana Menteri Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
- Presiden Tunisia Moncef Marzouki.
- Presiden Uganda Yoweri Museveni.
- PBB Komisaris Hak Asasi Manusia Navi Pillay.
- Sekretaris Jenderal PBB Ban Ki-moon dan pendahulunya Kofi Annan.
- Presiden AS Barack Obama dan Ibu Negara Michelle Obama serta mantan presiden George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton dan istrinya Hillary.
- Uruguay Luis Almagro Menteri Luar Negeri.
- Pejabat Vatikan Kardinal Peter Turkson dari Ghana.
- Venezuela Nicolas Maduro Presiden.
- Presiden Zambia Michael Sata.
- Presiden Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe.
THE global list of the great and good attending today´s memorial event for Nelson Mandela in South Africa reads like a Who´s Who of world leaders in politics, business, music and fashion.
As tens of thousands of South Africans converged in sorrow, celebration and pride on Soweto´s World Cup stadium, they found themselves taking their seats side-by-side with presidents, priests and queens at a memorial service for the global icon.
Representing the U.S., President Barack Obama has flown in for the day of remembrance and celebration for the anti-apartheid icon who died last week at age 95.
Air Force One touched down at a military base near Johannesburg on a rainy morning.
Joining Obama on the 16-hour trip from Washington was first lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were also scheduled to attend the memorial service, but traveled to South Africa separately.
French President Francois Hollande and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy will attend as will the German President Joachim Gauck.
Zimbabwe´s President Robert Mugabe and Cuban President Raul Castro were also pictured arriving at the stadium.
The President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas accepted the invitation, but Israel´s top leaders were conspicuous by their absence.
Israel announced neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor President Shimon Peres will attend the event citing costs and health reasons.
Tycoon Sir Richard Branson, supermodel Naomi Campbell and musicians Bono, Annie Lennox and Peter Gabriel are among those expected at the memorial service.
Sir Richard and singer Peter Gabriel devised ´The Elders´ forum of statesmen and activists set up by Mr Mandela.
U2 singer and activist Bono, 53, said the anti-apartheid icon had inspired him to campaign against Aids and world poverty.
He took his seat next to South African actress Charlize Theron.
Miss Campbell, 43, who Mr Mandela described as his ´honorary granddaughter´, has helped raise money for the Nelson Mandela Children´s Fund and his former political party the African National Congress.
Grammy-award winning artist Annie Lennox, 58, has a long association with Mr Mandela after performing at his 70th birthday concert in 1988.
U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey will also be there.
Three previous British Prime Ministers - Sir John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - are to join current PM David Cameron at the official memorial ceremony.
Also at the national memorial service in Johannesburg´s FNB Stadium are Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband.
It is thought to be the first time for many years that all of the UK’s surviving prime ministers have travelled to an event abroad, and reflects the deep respect in which Mr Mandela is held within British politics.
Mr Obama will lead the tributes along with United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.
Russia´s President Vladimir Putin, who is not attending, described Mandela as a ´great humanist´ as he signed a book of condolence at the South African embassy in Moscow.
Having signed the book, Putin bowed his head in front of Mandela’s portrait and offered condolences to South African Ambassador Mandisi Mpahlwa.
At the funeral on Sunday, political guests will include Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout – who is representing his country in place of its prime minister Jiri Rusnok.
Mr Rusnok was forced to apologise after he was recorded saying: ´The idea of going gives me the shivers.´
South African President Jacob Zuma will give the keynote address and former South African President F.W. de Klerk will play a major part.
Mr Mandela´s family and friends also will speak at the ceremony, which will include a sermon.
Full List of Foreign Dignitaries at Mandela´s Memorial
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
- Angolan Vice President Manuel Vincent.
- Argentinian Acting President Amado Boudou.
- Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
- Bahamas´ Prime Minister Perry Christie.
- Bangladesh´s President Abdul Hamid.
- Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo and King Philippe.
- Benin´s President Boni Yayi.
- Botswana´s President Seretse Ian Khama.
- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and three predecessors, including Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- British Prime Minister David Cameron, deputy PM Nick Clegg and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
- Burundi´s President Pierre Nkurunziza.
- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and three of his predecessors.
- Chadian President Idriss Deby.
- Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao.
- Comoros´ President Ikiliou Dhoinine.
- Congo´s President Joseph Kabila.
- Croatian President Ivo Josipovic.
- Cuban President Raul Castro.
- Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout.
- Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Prince Frederik.
- Djibouti´s President Ismail Omar Guelleh.
- East Timor´s Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao.
- El Salvador´s Foreign Minister Jaime Miranda.
- Equatorial Guinea´s President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
- Ethiopia´s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
- European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
- European Union Council President Herman Van Rompuy.
- Finnish President Sauli Niinisto.
- French President Francois Hollande and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Gabon´s President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
- Gambian President Yahya Jammeh.
- German President Joachim Gauck.
- Ghana´s President John Dramani Mahama.
- Guinean President Alpha Conde.
- Guyana´s President Donald Ramotar.
- Haitian President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.
- Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Congress party leader Sonia Ghandi.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
- Irish President Michael Higgins.
- Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
- Ivory Coast´s President Allasane Ouattara.
- Jamaica´s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.
- Japan´s Crown Prince Naruhito and former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
- Jordanian Queen Rania and Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour.
- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
- Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
- Lesotho´s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane.
- Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
- Malawi´s President Joyce Banda.
- Malaysian Energy Minister Maximus Ongkili.
- Mauritius´ Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
- Mexican President Pena Nieto.
- Morocco´s Prince Moulay Rachid.
- Mozambique´s President Armando Emilio Guebuza.
- Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba.
- Nepalese Foreign Minister Madhav Prassad Ghimire.
- The Netherlands´ Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans and King Willem-Alexander.
- Niger´s President Mahamadou Issoufou.
- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
- Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Crown Prince Haakon.
- Pakistan´s President Mamnoon Hussain.
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
- Philippines´ Vice President Jejomar Binay.
- Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski and former President Lech Walesa.
- Portuguese President Cavaco Silva.
- Saudi-Arabia´s Deputy Prime Minister Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
- Senegalese President Macky Sall.
- Serbian President Tomislav Nicolic.
- Seychelles President James Michel.
- Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak.
- Slovenia´s President Borut Pahor.
- South Korean Prime Minister Hongwon Chung.
- South Sudan´s President Salva Kir Mayardi.
- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Prince Felipe.
- Sri Lanka´s President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
- Sudanese Vice President Bakri Hassan Salih.
- Suriname´s President Desire Delan Bouterse.
- Swaziland´s Prime Minister Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini.
- Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Princess Victoria.
- Swiss President Ulrich Maurer.
- Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.
- Trinidad and Tobago´s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
- Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki.
- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
- U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay.
- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his predecessor Kofi Annan.
- U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as well as former presidents George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary.
- Uruguay´s Foreign Minister Luis Almagro.
- Vatican official Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana.
- Venezuela´s President Nicolas Maduro.
- Zambia´s President Michael Sata.
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
