Heads of foreign states came to the funeral of President Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas

Heads of foreign states bid farewell to the late President of the Republic of Lithuania, Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Naryshkin, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Buria, Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Elchin Efendiyev, Azerbaijani Minister of Taxes and Chairman of the Lithuanian-Azerbaijani Intergovernmental Cooperation Commission Fazil Mamedov, European Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta, Austrian special representative Michael Schwartzinger, and a governmental delegation from Kazakhstan came to Lithuania to attend the funeral.

Also, former heads of neighboring states who had maintained close friendly relations and had multiple contacts with the late President came to say their last good-bye to the deceased: former President of Estonia Arnold Rüütel, former President of Latvia Guntis Ulmanis and former Prime Minister of Latvia Andris Bērziņš, former Presidents of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Lech Wałęsa, former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, and former President of Ukraine Vladimir Kuchma.