Honorary Citizens of Belgrade
The title of Honorary citizen of Belgrade has been awarded since 19 July 1954, although Josip Broz Tito and Peko Dapčević, were awarded even before, in 1945 and 1947. Majority of honorary citizens of Belgrade were high foreign officials, who were visiting SFR Yugoslavia. The title of Honorary citizen of Belgrade was reintroduced, after 21 years, in 2006.[1]
So far, the honorary citizens of Belgrade have been:
- Peko Dapčević, lieutenant general JNA and Order of the People's Hero - 20 October 1945
- Josip Broz Tito, president of SFR Yugoslavia and League of Communists of Yugoslavia - 25 May 1947
- Fyodor Tolbukhin, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria and Order of the People's Hero - 25 May 1947
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia - 22 July 1954
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India - 1955
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt - 1956
- Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia - 1959
- Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Soviet Union) - 1962
- Ahmed Ben Bella, President of Algeria 1964
- Habib Bourguiba, President of the Republic of Tunisia - 1965
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India - 1965
- Edvard Kardelj, federal political leader of SFR Yugoslavia and Order of the People's Hero - 1970
- Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia - 1970
- Edward Gierek, President of the Polish United Workers' Party - 1973
- Nicolae Ceaușescu, President of Romania и General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party - 1976
- Hua Guofeng, Premier of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Communist Party of China - 1978
- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir and thirteenth Sheikh of Kuwait - 1981
- François Mitterrand, President of France - 1983
- Kim Il-sung, president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - 1984
- Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China - 1984
- Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico - 1985
- Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania - 15 March 1985[1]
- Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa - 15 May 2007 [2]
- Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs - 6 October 2009 [3]
- Tadashi Nagai, Japanese Ambassador to Belgrade (Serbia) - 7 June 2010 [4]
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