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Jawaharlal Nehru Award
Mr. Olafan Rognar Greemans has been conferred with Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the Jury chaired by the Vice President of India, Honorable Hammid Ansari, for the year 2007. Mr. Olafan Rognar Greemans is working as the President of Iceland third time. He also won the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize in 1987 as a representative of Association of International Parliamentarians.
The Government of India instituted the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1965 as a tribute to the memory of independent India’s first Prime Minister, and his lifelong dedication to the cause of world peace and international understanding. The Award is given to persons for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among peoples of the world. The Council acts as the Secretariat for this award which carries a Trophy, Citation and cash prize of Rs. 2.5 million. The Award is presented by Hon’ble President of India at a special function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the presence of Vice-President of India and Prime Minister of India. The list of award winners is given here under.



S.No. Name of the Recipient Year
1 U Thant 1965
2 Martin Luther King Jr (Posthumous) 1966
3 Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 1967
4 Yehudi Menuhin 1968
5 Mother Teresa 1969
6 Kenneth D Kaunda 1970
7 Josip Broz Tito 1971
8 Andre Malraux 1972
9 Julius K Nyerere 1973
10 Raul Prebisch 1974
11 Jonas Salk 1975
12 Giuseppe Tucci 1976
13 Tulsi Meherji Shrestha 1977
14 Nichidatsu Fujii 1978
15 Nelson Mandela 1979
16 Barbara Ward 1980
17 Alva and Gunnar Myrdal (Jointly) 1981
18 Leopold Sedar Senghor 1982
19 Bruno Kreisky 1983
20 Indira Gandhi (Posthumous) 1984
21 Olof Palme (Posthumous) 1985
22 Not Awarded 1986
23 Javier Perez de Cueller 1987
24 Yasser Arafat 1988
25 Robert Gabriel Mugabe 1989
26 Helmut Kohl 1990
27 Aruna Asaf Ali 1991
28 Maurice F Strong 1992
29 Aung San Suu Kyi 1993
30 Mahathir Bin Mohamad 1994
31 Hosney Mubarak 1995
xx NO AWARD PERIOD 1996-2002
32 Goh Chok Tong 2003
33 Sultan Qaboos Bin Said al Said 2004
34 Prof. Wangari M. Maathai 2005
35 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil 2006
36 Mr. Olafan Rognar Greemans 2007