He has met and discussed policies with 3 UN Secretaries General, one queen (Elizabeth), tough guys like Libyan leader MUammar Gaddafi and Serbian president Sloban Milosevic. He has been in the Senate for 36 years. A Vice President should be experienced.
Partial list:
Iraq Allawi, al-Jaafari, al-Maliki, Talabani, Massoud Barzani,
Nechirvan Barzani
Israel Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni
Palestinian Territories Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Ahmed Qurei
Jordan King Hussein, King Abdullah
Egypt Hosni Mubarak, Anwar Sadat
Libya Muammar Qaddafi
Lebanon Prime Minister Rafiq Haririm, Najib Mikati
Bahrain Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Syria President Bashar al-Assad
Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ahmet Sezer, Abdullah Gul, Bulent Ecevit, Demirel
Greece Kostis Stephanopoulos, Kostas Karamanlis, Kostantinos Mitsotakis, Andreas PapandreouCyprus George Vassiliou, Glafcos Clerides
Afghanistan Hamid Karzai
Pakistan Asaf Ali Zardari, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif
India Manmohan Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremasinghe
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