Chief guest for January 26th Republic Day India

Chief guest for January 26th Republic Day India


2014 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan


2013 King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Bhutan


2012 Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand


2011 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia


2010 President Lee Myung Bak, Republic of Korea


2009 President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakshtan


2008 President Nicolas Sarkozy, France


2007 President Vladimir Putin, Russia


2006 King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Saudi Arabia


2005 King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Bhutan


2004 President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil


2003 President Mohammed Khatami, Iran


2002 President Cassam Uteem, Mauritius


2001 President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria


2000 President Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria


1999 King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Nepal


1998 President Jacques Chirac, France


1997 Prime Minister Basdeo Panday, Trinidad and Tobago


1996 President Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazil


1995 President Nelson Mandela, South Africa


1994 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, Singapore


1993 Prime Minister John Major, United Kingdom


1992 President Mário Soares, Portugal


1991 President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Maldives


1990 Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritius


1989 General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh, Viet Nam


1988 President Junius Jayewardene, Sri Lanka


1987 President Alan García, Peru


1986 Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, Greece


1985 President Raúl Alfonsín, Argentina


1984 King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Bhutan


1983 President Shehu Shagari, Nigeria


1982 King Juan Carlos I, Spain


1981 President José López Portillo, Mexico


1980 President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, France


1979 Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Australia


1978 President Patrick Hillery, Ireland


1977 First Secretary Edward Gierek, Poland


1976 Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, France


1975 President Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia


1974 President Josip Broz Tito, SFR Yugoslavia
Prime Minister Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka


1973 President Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire


1972 Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritius


1971 President Julius Nyerere, Tanzania


1969 Prime Minister of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria


1968 Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, USSR
President Josip Broz Tito, SFR Yugoslavia


1965 Food and Agriculture Minister Rana Abdul Hamid, Pakistan


1963 King Norodom Sihanouk, Combodia


1961 Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom


1960 President Kliment Voroshilov, USSR


1958 Marshall Ye Jianying, PRC


1955 Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Pakistan


1954 King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutan


1950 President Sukamo, Indonesia