VIP group
Family photo - distinguished guests pose in front of a photo of the ALEPH detector at LEP.
Left to right: (front row) Lubomir Fogas, Deputy Prime Minister, Slovak Republic;
Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, Minister of Research, France; Anna Birules, Minister of
Science and Technology, Spain; Lord Sainsbury, Minister of Science, UK; Edelgard
Bulmahn, Minister of Education and Research, Germany; Adolf Ogi, President of the Swiss
Confederation; Luciano Maiani, CERN director-general; Mrs Maiani; Philippe Busquin,
Commissioner for Research, European Council; Agneta Bladh, State Secretary of Education
and Science, Sweden; Mariano Gago, Minister of Science and Technology, Portugal; Andrzej
Wiszniewski, Minister of Science, Poland; (back row) Hans C Eschelbacher, President of
CERN Council; Paul Levaux, former CERN Council President, Belgium; Dimitar Dimitrov,
Minister of Education and Science, Bulgaria; John O'Fallon, US Department of Energy;
Mikhail Kirpichnikov, First Vice-Minister for Science, Russia; Dimitris Deniozos, Secretary
General for Research and Technology, Greece; Edip Safter Gaydali, State Minister, Turkey;
Randi Overland, State Secretary of Education, Norway; Gabor Szabo, Deputy State
Secretary, Hungary; and Wolfgang Kummer, former CERN Council President, Austria.