August 15 chif guests

August 15 chif guests

1950 Indonesia President Sukarno
1951 Nepal King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah
1952 —
1953 —
1954 Bhutan King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
1955 Pakistan Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad
1956 —
1957 —
1958 China Marshall Ye Jianying
1959 —
1960 Soviet Union Chairman Kliment Voroshilov
1961 United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II
1962 —
1963 Cambodia King Norodom Sihanouk
1964 —
1965 Pakistan Food and Agriculture Minister Rana Abdul Hamid
1966 —
1967 —
1968 Soviet Union Chairman Alexei Kosygin
 Yugoslavia President Josip Broz Tito
1969 Bulgaria Prime Minister Todor Zhivkov
1970 —
1971 Tanzania President Julius Nyerere
1972 Mauritius Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
1973 Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko
1974 Yugoslavia President Josip Broz Tito
 Sri Lanka Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike
1975 Zambia President Kenneth Kaunda
1976 France Prime Minister Jacques Chirac
1977 Poland First Secretary Edward Gierek
1978 Ireland President Patrick Hillery
1979 Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
1980 France President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
1981 Mexico President Jose Lopez Portillo
1982 Spain King Juan Carlos I
1983 Nigeria President Shehu Shagari
1984 Bhutan King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
1985 Argentina President Raúl Alfonsín
1986 Greece Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou
1987 Peru President Alan Garcia
1988 Sri Lanka President Junius Jayewardene
1989 Vietnam General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh
1990 Mauritius Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth
1991 Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
1992 Portugal President Mário Soares
1993 United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major
1994 Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong
1995 South Africa President Nelson Mandela
1996 Brazil President Fernando Henrique Cardoso
1997 Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Basdeo Panday
1998 France President Jacques Chirac
1999 Nepal King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
2000 Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo
2001 Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
2002 Mauritius President Cassam Uteem
2003 Iran President Mohammed Khatami
2004 Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
2005 Bhutan King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
2006 Saudi Arabia King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
2007 Russia President Vladimir Putin
2008 France President Nicolas Sarkozy
2009 Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev
2010 South Korea President Lee Myung Bak
2011 Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
2012 Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
2013 Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
2014 Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
2015 United States President Barack Obama
2016 France President François Hollande