Sri Lanka’s highest national honour conferred on Maldivian President    

[Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 04.45 GMT]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa conferred Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with “Lanka Mithra Vibushana”, Sri Lanka's highest national honor, at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (February 12).  

The Maldivian President was honoured in appreciation of diplomatic and other mutual ties between Sri Lanka and Maldives for three decades. 

This award was conferred on a Foreign Head of State for the first time in Sri Lanka.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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