अबु धाबी के क्राउन प्रिंस शेख मोहम्मद बिन ज़ायेद अल नाहयान (Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan) भारत के 68वें गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह में मुख्य अतिथि के रूप में शामिल होने के लिए वह भारत आए। भारत के गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह में 1950 से ही किसी-न-किसी राष्ट्र प्रमुख को ही मुख्य अतिथि के रूप में आमंत्रित किया जाता रहा है। पिछले वर्ष 2016 में फ्रांस के राष्ट्रपति फ्रांस्वाँ ओलांद (Francois Hollande) 67वें गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह में मुख्य अतिथि थे, जबकि उनसे पूर्व 2015 में अमेरिका के राष्ट्रपति बराक ओबामा 66वें गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह में मुख्य अतिथि थे।
अब तक गणतंत्र दिवस के मुख्य अतिथियों की सूची इस प्रकार है–
Year | Chief Guest Name | Country |
2017 | Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Abu Dhabi |
2016 | Francois Hollande | France |
2015 | Barack Obama (President) | United States of America |
2014 | Shinzo Abe (Prime Minister) | Japan |
2013 | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | Bhutan |
2012 | Yingluck Shinawatra First Female Prime Minister of Thailand | Thailand |
2011 | President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | Indonesia |
2010 | President Lee Myung Bak | Republic of Korea |
2009 | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | Kazakhstan |
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
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President Mário Soares | Portugal |
1991 | President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Maldives |
1990 | Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth | Mauritius |
1989 | General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh | Vietnam |
1988 | President Junius Jayewardene | Sri Lanka |
1987 | President Alan Garcia | 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 Jose Lopez 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 and Prime Minister Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike | Yugoslavia Sri Lanka |
1973 | President Mobutu Sese Seko | Zaire |
1972 | Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | Mauritius |
1971 | President Julius Nyerere | Tanzania |
1970 | – | – |
1969 | Prime Minister of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov | Bulgaria |
1968 | Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and President Josip Broz Tito | Soviet Union Yugoslavia |
1967 | – | – |
1966 | – | – |
1965 | Food and Agriculture Minister Rana Abdul Hamid | Pakistan |
1964 | – | – |
1963 | King Norodom Sihanouk | Cambodia |
1962 | – | – |
1961 | Queen Elizabeth II | United Kingdom |
1960 | President Kliment Voroshilov | Soviet Union |
1959 | – | – |
1958 | Marshall Ye Jianying | People’s Republic of China |
1957 | – | – |
1956 | – | – |
1955 | Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad (first guest for parade at Rajpath) | Pakistan |
1954 | King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | Bhutan |
1953 | – | – |
1952 | – | – |
1951 | – | – |
1950 | President Sukarno | Indonesia |