NEHRU AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING

NEHRU AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING FOR 1993----AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India. It was founded in 1965 and is administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to people "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world". The money constituent of this award is 1 crore rupees.

[edit]Recipients

1. U Thant - 1965
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1966
3. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan - 1967
4. Yehudi Menuhin - 1968
5. Mother Teresa - 1969
6. Kenneth Kaunda - 1970
7. Josip Broz Tito - 1971
8. André Malraux - 1972
9. Julius 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 - 1981
18. Leopold Sedar Senghor - 1982
19. Bruno Kreisky - 1983
20. Indira Gandhi - 1984 (posthumous)
21. Olof Palme - 1985 (posthumous)
22. 1986 Not awarded
23. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - 1987
24. Yasser Arafat - 1988
25. Robert Gabriel Mugabe - 1989
26. Helmut Kohl - 1990
27. Aruna Asaf Ali - 1991
28. Maurice Strong - 1992
29. Aung San Suu Kyi - 1993
30. Mahathir Bin Mohamad - 1994
31. Hosni Mubarak - 1995
32. 1996 Not awarded
33. 1997 Not awarded
34. 1998 Not awarded
35. 1999 Not awarded
36. 2000 Not awarded
37. 2001 Not awarded
38. 2002 Not awarded
39. Goh Chok Tong - 2003
40. Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said - 2004 (yet to be presented)
41. Wangari Maathai - 2005
42. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - 2006
43. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson - 2007
44. Angela Merkel - 2009

• Prize not awarded in 1986 & from 1996 to 2002.