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- ↑ CIA World Leaders Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ A Directory of World Leaders & Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: 2008-2009 Edition, Arc Manor, p. 407
- ↑ Jacqueline K. Mueckenheim, Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook 2008, Gale Cengage, 2007, p. 1994
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