Order of Zayed

The Order of Zayed (Arabic: وسام زايد‎) is the United Arab Emirates' highest civil decoration named after Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.[1]

Order of Zayed
Awarded by  United Arab Emirates
Type	Order
Status	Currently constituted
Grades	Collar
Precedence
Next (higher)	None
Ribbon bar of the order

Recipients

• 23 January 1995: Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan[2][3]
• 27 November 2003: Sepp Blatter, 8th president of FIFA[4]
• 6 January 2005: Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Crown Prince of Qatar
• 2 February 2005: Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain
• 13 March 2006: Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
• 25 January 2007: General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan[5]
• 26 August 2007: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan[6]
• 10 September 2007: Vladimir Putin, President of Russia[7]
• 31 May 2008: Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria[8]
• 10 February 2009: General Michel Suleiman, President of Lebanon[9]
• 25 November 2010: Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms[10]
• 9 January 2012: Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands[11]
• 6 May 2015: Mohammed VI, King of Morocco[12]
• 3 December 2016: Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia[13]
• 20 July 2018: Xi Jinping, President of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China[14]
• 24 July 2018: Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia[15]
• 24 July 2018: Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea [16]
• 24 August 2019: Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India [17]
• 14 November 2019: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt[18]

References

1. "UAE confers 'Order of Zayed' to PM Modi". 24 August 2019.
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3. Upi
4. "Maktoum awards Zayed Order to Blatter". Emirates News Agency. November 28, 2003. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
5. Musharraf, Pervez (2007-01-25). "Khalifa confers Musharraf". gulfnews.com.
6. www.turkmenistan.ru
7. Protocolo
8. رئيس دولة الامارات يقلد الرئيس السوري وسام زايد تعبيرا عن عمق العلاقات التي تربط البلدين (in Arabic). Al Watan Voice. 1 June 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
9. Lebanese Presidency website, Decorations Archived 2012-04-13 at the Wayback Machine page, showing a photo of the decoration
10. Johnson, Alice (2010-11-26). "Khalifa, Queen Elizabeth II exchange orders". gulfnews.com.
11. H.H Sheikh Khalifa welcomes HM Queen Beatrix of Netherlands Archived 2013-04-29 at the Wayback Machine - website of the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs
12. (Wam). "Morocco King honoured with Order of Zayed - Khaleej Times". www.khaleejtimes.com. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
13. Article
14. "Article". Archived from the original on 2018-07-22. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
15. The National
16. The National
18. "Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bestows 'Order of Zayed' on Egypt president". Khaleeji Times. 14 November 2019.