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DELEGATIONS (TENTATIVE) LEADERS MEETING MAY 15-17 IN BIRMINGHAM CANADA: Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister FRANCE: Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic GERMANY: Helmut Kohl, Chancellor ITALY: Romano Prodi, President of the Council of Ministers JAPAN: Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime Minister RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Boris Yeltsin, President UNITED KINGDOM: Tony Blair, Prime Minister UNITED STATES: William J. Clinton, President EUROPEAN UNION: Jacques Santer, President FOREIGN AND FINANCE MINISTERS MEETING MAY 8-9 IN LONDON CANADA: Lloyd Axworthy, Secretary of State for External Affairs Paul Martin, Minister of Finance FRANCE: Hubert Védrine, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry GERMANY: Klaus Kinkel, Foreign Minister Theodor Waigel,Finance Minister ITALY: Lamberto Dini, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Minister of the Treasury JAPAN: Keizo Obuchi, Minister for Foreign Affairs Hikaru Matsunaga, Minister of Finance RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Yevgeny Primakov, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Zadornov, Minister of Finance UNITED KINGDOM: Robin Cook, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer UNITED STATES: Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury EUROPEAN UNION: Yves-Thibault de Silguy, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs

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