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FOREIGN | 5 Nation Tour

In 8 days, 4 countries conferred their highest honor on PM Modi

During his 8-day foreign tour, PM Narendra Modi was conferred with their highest honours by four countries.
Ghana conferred him with ‘The Officer of the Order of the Star of Ghana’, Trinidad and Tobago with ‘Order
of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’, Brazil with ‘The Grand Collar of the National Order of the
Southern Cross’ and Namibia with ‘Order of the Most Ancient Welwitschia Mirabilis’. PM Modi is the first
foreign leader to be honoured with the highest national award of Trinidad and Tobago and the first Indian to
receive Namibia’s highest civilian award.

Honored by 27 countries so far

n 2024
Kuwait: The Order of Mubarak Al- Kabeer
Guyana: The Order of Excellence
Barbados: Honorary Order of Freedom of
Barbados
Dominica: The Dominica Award of Honour
Nigeria: Grand Commander of the Order of
Niger
Russia: The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle
Namibia Ghana Bhutan: Order of the Druk Gyalpo

Order of the Most Ancient The Officer of the Order of n 2023
Welwitschia Mirabilis the Star of Ghana Greece: Grand Cross of the Order of Honour

France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Egypt: Order of the Nile
Fiji: Companion of the Order of Fiji
Papua New Guinea: Grand Companion of the
Order of Logohu
Palau: Ebakl Award

n 2020
United States of America: Legion of Merit
n 2019
UAE: Order of Zayed
Trinidad and Tobago Brazil Maldives: Order of the Distinguished Rule of
Nishan Izzuddeen
The Order of the Republic The Grand Collar of the National Bahrain: King Hamad Order of the
of Trinidad & Tobago Order of the Southern Cross Renaissance

Countries that have honoured this year n 2018
Palestine: Grand Collar of the State of
Mauritius Palestine
The Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of n 2016
the Indian Ocean (G.C.S.K) Saudi Arabia: The King Abdulaziz Sash
Cyprus Sri Lanka Afghanistan: State Order of Ghazi Amir
The Grand Cross of the Mitra Vibhushana Amanullah Khan
Order of Makarios III award

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