Prime minister Narendra Modi was conferred with the distinguished Grand Cross of the Order of Honour by Greek President Katerina N Sakellaropoulou on Friday, a particular honour reflecting the energy of the India-Greece partnership.
The honour is bestowed by the Greek president to prime ministers and eminent personalities who, by purpose of their distinguished place, have contributed to enhancing the stature of Greece.
In a tweet, Modi thanked President Sakellaropoulou, and the Authorities and other people of Greece for conferring upon him The Grand Cross of the Order of Honour.
“This reveals the respect the individuals of Greece have in direction of India,” he mentioned, sharing an image of the occasion.
The Ministry of Exterior Affairs in a tweet mentioned it’s “a particular honour reflecting the energy of the India-Greece partnership”.
The quotation, in keeping with pmindia.gov.in web site, says, Within the individual of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an honour is bestowed upon the pleasant individuals of India.
On the event of this go to, the Greek State Honours the Prime Minister of India, a statesman who has tirelessly promoted the worldwide attain of his nation and who works systematically for India’s financial progress and prosperity, bringing about daring reforms. A statesman who has introduced environmental safety and local weather change among the many prime priorities of worldwide exercise, it states.
The Order of Honour was established in 1975. The top of goddess Athena is depicted on the entrance facet of the Star with the inscription ONLY THE RIGHTEOUS SHOULD BE HONOURED.
Modi, who’s in Athens on the invitation of Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, arrived within the Greek capital from South Africa the place he attended the fifteenth BRICS Summit.
That is the primary go to by an Indian Prime Minister to Greece within the final 40 years. The final high-level go to to Greece occurred in September 1983 when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi travelled to the nation.
Prime Minister Modi has been honoured by international locations internationally. Lately, throughout his go to to Paris in July, Modi was conferred with the best honour of France, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, by French President Emmanuel Macron.
In June, Modi was conferred with the Order of the Nile’, Egypt’s highest honour, by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, throughout his go to to the Arab nation.
Throughout his US go to in 2020, Modi was conferred with the Legion of Advantage award by then president Donald Trump.
In 2019, the prime minister was conferred with the King Hamad Order of the Renaissance by Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. It’s the prime honour within the Gulf nation.
Modi was additionally honoured with Russia’s highest civilian award, Order of St Andrew Award, in 2019. In the identical yr, he additionally obtained Order of Zayed Award, the best civilian honour of UAE.
