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PROMINENT LEADERS OF THE COUNTRIES OF ASIA

President Hamid Karzai 

= is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7

December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the

Taliban government in late 2001.[2] During the International Conference on

Afghanistan in Bonn, Germany, on 5 December 2001, Karzai was selected by

prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six month term as Chairman of the

Transitional Administration.

President Bamir Topi 

=is the fifth and current President of Albania since 24 July 2007. He is

also Honorary President of Albanian football club KF Tirana.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

=has been the tenth President of Algeria since 1999.

President Serzh Sargsyan 

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  =is the third President of Armenia. He won the February 2008

presidential election with the backing of the conservative Republican Party of

Armenia, a party in which he serves as chairman,[2] and took office in April 2008.[3] 

He is of no relation to the current Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan.

Presdent Zillur Rahman

= are the President of Bangladesh and a senior presidium member of

 the Awami League.[1] He was declared the nineteenth president by the Election

Commission of Bangladesh on 11 February 2009 when no other candidate filed to

run in the presidential election since the Awami League won the vast majority ofseats in the just completed parliamentary election,[2] and he was sworn in on 12

February 2009. 

President Alexander Lukashenko

= has served as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994.[5] Before

his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned

agricultural farm. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has emerged to be viewed as a

state whose conduct is out of line with international law and whose regime is

considered to grossly violate human rights. Belarus has never held a poll seen as

fair by international monitors since Lukashenko began his presidency. Belarus has

 been called ³the last true remaining dictatorship in the heart of Europe´ by the

former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He and other Belarusian officials is

also subject of the sanctions imposed by the European Union for egregious human

rights violations.

President Georgi Parvanov 

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  = is the current President of Bulgaria; he has been elected after

defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential

elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002. Georgi

Parvanov started his second presidential mandate following victory in the 2006

presidential elections. Parvanov supports membership of Bulgaria in NATO and the

European Union. According to Bulgarian law Bulgarian president is not allowed to

 be a member of a political party thus Parvanov is independent and he left theSocialist Party after his success in the presidential elections, although of course he

identified as a socialist. Parvanov often declares being a 'social president' as his

election platform was such - focusing on social care for the "unemployed,

disadvantaged and poor."

President Norodom Sihamoni

= is the King of Cambodia. He is the eldest son of Norodom Sihanouk

and Norodom Monineath Sihanouk. Previously Cambodia's ambassador to UNESCO,

he was named by a nine-member throne council to become the next king after his

father Norodom Sihanouk abdicated in 2004. Before ascending the throne,

Sihamoni was best known for his work as a cultural ambassador in Europe and as a

classical dance instructor.

President Hu Jintao

= is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China.

He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since

2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the

Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin as the top leader

of fourth generation leadership of the Communist Party of China.

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  President Joseph Kabila 

= is the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He

 took office in January 2001, ten days after the murder of his father and DRC

president Laurent-Désiré Kabila. On November 27, 2006, Joseph Kabila was

confirmed as President following the July 2006 general election.

President Václav Klaus 

= is the second President of the Czech Republic (since 2003, reelected

2008) and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992±1997). An

economist by trade, he is co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party, the Czech

Republic's largest center-right political party. Klaus is a eurosceptic, but he

reluctantly endorsed the Lisbon treaty as president of his country. He has been

called "the Margaret Thatcher of Central Europe".

President Hosni Mubarak 

= is the fourth and current President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

He was appointed Vice President in 1975, and assumed the Presidency on 14

October 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar El-Sadat. He is the

longest-serving Egyptian ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha. Prior to his political

career, Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force, who served as its

commander from 1972 to 1975.

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