Following the proclamation of this year’s honorary citizen of Belgrade, “24 hours” brings an interesting list of all the previous winners of this prestigious award. So let’s see who do we have here:
1947. Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia
1947. Peko Dapčević, commander of the 1st Partisan army
1954. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
1955. Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India
1956. Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt
1959. Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia
1962. Leonid Breznev, president of USSR
1964. Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of Algeria
1965. Habib Bourgiba, president of Tunisia
1965. Lal Bahadur Shastri, president of India
1970. Edvrad Kardelj, foreign affairs minister of Yugoslavia
1970. Kenneth David Kaunda, president of Zambia
1973. Edward Gierek, communist politician from Poland
1976. Nicolae Ceauşescu, president of Romania
1978. Hua Guofeng, Premier of the People’s Republic of China
1981. Jaber III al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, Kuwait’s Emir
1983. François Mitterrand, president of France
1984. Kim Il-sung, communist leader of DPR Korea
1984. Li Xiannian, president of China
1985. Miguel de la Madrid, president of Mexico
1985. Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania
2007. Nelson Mendela, President of South Africa
and the winner for 2009 is…
2009. Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Spain’s foreign affairs minister!
In your face, Obama!
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Ceausescu (76) and Kim Il Sung (84) — Senor Moratinos is mixing in strange company. It is a very esoteric list and JBT (47) might not have been stari-eyed to see it.
Celebrating the result of the Catalan referendum!
Missing are quite a few people, i.e. all those from the years 1882 to 1947.
Anyway…