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The Guardian has published a downloadable spreadsheet of David Cameron’s 2010 international Christmas Card list, obtained via a Freedom of Information request. You can download it here.
The Christmas card which Cameron sent in 2010 was fronted by a photo of him, his wife and their new baby on the steps of Number Ten.
Much comment has been made of Cameron’s choice of Christmas card recipients. The Guardian observed:
Argentina and the Dominican Republic make the cut, but Peru and Venezuela do not. The prime minister of Malawi is on the list, but South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma is not.
France’s president and prime minister both appear, as do the heads of state and of government of Poland, India and South Korea. But only Dmitry Medvedev, as president of the Russian federation, makes the grade; prime minister Vladimir Putin is conspicuous by his absence.
I’ve taken the list and compared it to the ISO 3166 list of countries. By doing so, I have spotted some interesting omissions from the list.
So, Cameron sent Christmas cards to Australia and Canada. He sent cards to three leaders of Qatar and three leaders of the United Arab Emirates. But he didn’t send one to New Zealand. Dear old New Zealand!
He didn’t send one to Iceland, perhaps due to the debate with that country about banking.
But I notice he didn’t send one to Croatia or Switzerland.
His office say that the list reflected the contacts that Cameron had during the previous year.
Here’s the full list of countries which Cameron didn’t send a card to:
Cameron family Christmas Card 2010 photo credit: Some rights reserved by The Prime Minister’s Office
Åland Islands
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua And Barbuda
Armenia
Aruba
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia And Herzegovina
Botswana
Bouvet Island
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Christmas Island
Cocos (keeling) Islands
Comoros
Congo
Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
CÔte D’ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Djibouti
Dominica
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Falkland Islands (malvinas)
Faroe Islands
Fiji
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern Territories
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Isle Of Man
Jersey
Kiribati
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of
Kuwait
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Lesotho
Liberia
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Liechtenstein
Macao
Madagascar
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Micronesia, Federated States Of
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Puerto Rico
RÉunion
Rwanda
Saint BarthÉlemy
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts And Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Pierre And Miquelon
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome And Principe
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Svalbard And Jan Mayen
Swaziland
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan, Province Of China
Tajikistan
Tanzania, United Republic Of
Thailand
Timor-leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Turks And Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, U.s.
Wallis And Futuna
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe
