Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) signs the guest book as Bert Koenders, the Minister for Development Corporation, looks on after meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters in New York September 21, 2009.

Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) shakes hands with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters in New York September 21, 2009.

Netrherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende lays a wreath at the Polish Monument in Driel, the Netherlands September 19, 2009. The event was held in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Operation Market Garden during World War Two.

Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende arrives at the morning session of United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 18, 2009. World leaders worked through the early hours to try and beat a Friday deadline for a deal on cutting emissions and helping poor...

Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker (R) walks past Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (L) who is talking with his British counterpart Gordon Brown (C) on the second day of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels December 11, 2009.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (first R) talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai (first L) while standing in front (second row, L-R) Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Slovenian Prime Minister Robert...

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Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, bottom left, and Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, bottom center, looks at Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, bottom right, and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, top right, as they pose for a group photo at the...

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (2nd R) poses with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (L), Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai (2nd L) and Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi (R) during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels December 10, 2009.

Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (L) is welcomed by Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country currently holds the EU rotating presidency, at the start of a two-day EU Heads of States summit at the EU council headquarters in Brussels December 10, 2009.

Germany�s Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) talks with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende during a two-day European Union leaders summit in Brussels December 10, 2009.

Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (L) welcomes Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Victor Zubkov in The Hague December 9, 2009.

Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende talks to France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) during a two-day European Union leaders summit in Brussels June 19, 2009.

Winner of the fifth International Children's Peace Prize Baruani Ndume looks at a ball which he received from Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende in his office at The Hague December 3, 2009.

Winner of the fifth International Children's Peace Prize Baruani Ndume (R) sits with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (C) and Thandiwe Chama, winner of the Children's Peace Prize in 2007, in the Prime Minister's office in The Hague December 3, 2009.

Winner of the fifth International Children's Peace Prize Baruani Ndume shows a T-shirt which he received from Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruijff in the office of Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende at the Hague December 3, 2009.

Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) shakes hands with his British counterpart Gordon Brown (R) in front of Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer, whose country currently holds the rotating Presidency of the EU, at the start of a two-day European leaders summit in Brussels June...

The Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) shakes hands with his British counterpart Gordon Brown (C) as Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer (2nd L) and Foreign Minister Jan Kohout look on at the start of a two-day European leaders Summit in Brussels, June 18, 2009.

Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) is welcomed by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the EC headquarters in Brussels June 11, 2009.

Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (R) and his Zimbabwean counterpart Morgan Tsvangirai answer questions during a media meeting in the Hague June 8, 2009.

Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) welcomes his Zimbabwean counterpart Morgan Tsvangirai in the Hague June 8, 2009.

Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (R) and Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai speak in the Hague June 8, 2009.

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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende arrives at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. EU leaders are bracing for an arduous diplomatic battle at summit talks over who to name as the EU's first full-time president and new foreign policy chief.

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Netherland's Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, left, welcomes Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, right, prior to a meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday Nov. 19, 2009.

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Dutch prime minister and Christian Democrats leader Jan Peter Balkenende speaks during the annual congress of his party CDA in Utrecht, on October 31, 2009.

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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (R) and Dutch minister of Finance Wouter Bos smile during a press conference in The Hague on May 15th 2009 follow an explanation of the country's 2008 annual financial report.