More foreign governments and leaders have expressed their sympathies for the victims of the deadly earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12.

Up to 22:00 Beijing time on May 22, heads of state and government, parliamentary leaders, officials of international organizations and people from all walks of life from 144 countries visited Chinese embassies, consulates or missions to mourn the victims of the earthquake.

The following are a list of them.

The heads of state are:

ROK President Lee Myung-bak;

Timor Leste President Jose Ramos Horta;

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf;

Liberian Vice President Joseph N. Boakai;

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua;

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa;

Zambia's first president Kenneth Kaunda;

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma;

Sierra Leone Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana;

Tanzanian Vice President Mohamed Shein;

President of Tanzania's Zanzibar Aman Abeid Karume;

Burundi's First Vice President Yves Sahinguvu;

Cuban President Raul Castro;

Brazilian Vice President Jose Alencar;

Bosnia-Herzegovina's President Zeljko Komsic.

The heads of government are:

Timor Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao;

Timor Leste Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres;

Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda;

Fiji's Interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama;

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng;

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem;

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah al-Dardari;

Lesotho's Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili;

Ugandan Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi;

Togolese Prime Minister Comlan Mally;

Cape Verde's Prime Minister Jose Maria Pereira Neves;

Gabonese Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong;

Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Prime Minister Nur Uluu Dosbol;

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica;

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg;

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek;

Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu;

Hungarian Prime Minister Gyurcsany Ferenc;

Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi;

Maltese Deputy Prime Minister Tonio Borg;

Jamaican Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Kenneth Baugh;

Montenegro Deputy Prime Minister Vujica Lazovic.

Parliamentary leaders include:

Speaker of Algerian National Assembly Abdelaziz Ziari;

President of Algerian Council of the Nation Abdelkader Bensalah;

President of Cape Verde's National Assembly Aristides Raimundo Lima;

Acting Norwegian Parliament President Karl Hagen;

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta Louis Galea;

Nepalese Speaker of interim parliament Shuvas Kumar Nembang;

Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey Koksal Toptan;

Moroccan parliament speaker Mustapha Mansouri;

Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana, Ebnezer Begyina Sekyi-Hughes;

President of the Senate of the Republic of Congo Amdre Obami Itou;

President of Mali National Assembly, Dioncounda Traore;

Albanian parliament Speaker Jozefina Topalli;

President of Estonia's Parliament Ene Ergma;

Parliament speaker of Republic of Montenegro Ranko Krivokapic;

First Deputy President of Greek Parliament George Sourlas;

Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian Parliament Petar Beron;

President of Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Arlindo Chinaglia;

Speaker of legislative assembly of Samoa Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiataua.

Foreign officials who visited to express their condolences include:

Timor Leste Foreign Minister Zacarias de Costa;

Fiji's Minister for Foreign Affairs Fatu Epeli Nailatikau;

Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs Leopold Messan Gnininvi;

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Goncz Kinga;

Latvian Minister for Foreign Affairs Maris Riekstins;

Guyana's Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues;

Republic of Congo's Minister of Foreign Affairs and French Affairs Basile Ikouebe;

Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shri E. Ahamed;

Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta

Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister U Maung Myint;

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki;

Tunisia State Minister Abdelaziz Ben Dhia;

Burundi Foreign Minister Antoinette Batumubwira;

The DRC's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mbusa Nyamwisi;

Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki;

Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov;

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekunas;

Slovakia Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Kubis;

Iceland Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir;

Montenegro Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Rocen;

Kazakhstan's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nurlan Yermekbayev.

Other officials include:

Tonga's Her Royal Highness Princess Salote Pilolevu Tuita;

German Federal Minister of Defence Franz Josef Jung;

Senegal State Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Abdoulaye Diop.

Other leaders of organizations include:

Director-General of International Labour Organization Juan Somavia;

Director-General of the Universal Postal Union Edouard Dayan;

Secretary-General of International Seabed Authority Satya Nandan;

Deputy Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency Olli Heinonen;

United Nations Special Envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambar;

Asian Development Bank Governor Haruhiko Kuroda;

Representatives of Secretariat of League of Arab States, United Nations Environment Program and International Energy Forum.

In addition, the International Atomic Energy Agency mourned the quake victims with flag at half-mast on May 20 and 21.

All the participants of the ministerial meeting of China-Arab Cooperation Forum mourned the victims before the meeting started on May 21.