| 05.12.2008 |
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| Once a week or so since the election, the transition team of President-elect Obama has sent out e-mails about which congratulatory calls from world leaders Obama or Vice president-elect Biden have returned. About one month since Obama-Biden won, here's whom they've chatted up according to those e-mails, in reverse chronological order. So far, there have been no reports of any of them hanging up on him: Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende Greek Prime Minister Karamanlis Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Kuwaiti Amir Sheikh Al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah Qatari Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Indonesian President Yudhoyono Afghanistan President Karzai European Commission President Barroso Haitian President Preval Colombian President Uribe Nigerian President Yar’Adua Senegalese President Wade South African President Motlanthe United Nations Secretary General Ban President Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina President Bachelet of Chile Taoiseach Cowen of Ireland President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority President Saakashvili of Georgia President Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines President Gul of Turkey Colombian President Álvaro Uribe European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero King Abdullah of Jordan Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Israeli Likud Leader Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu Polish President Lech Kaczynski British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Afghan President Hamid Karzai President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya --Maybe I just didn't get the news release, but this AP story by Nedra Pickler from Nov. 7 says that Obama spoke to a number of foreign leaders on the Thursday after the election. "Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said the president-elect spoke to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown." So there's a chance he's spoken to more leaders than they have officially announced, at least via news release that I've seen. --Where there's duplication, it's when both men called said foreign leader. Not included: The G-20 meetings of Obama representatives former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican Congressman Jim Leach. |
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