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Sheikh Nasir Al-Muhammad Al-Sabah
Prime Minister of Kuwait
(1940–)

Biographical

His Highness 2006
Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Africa 2017 [Liberia]
Scholae Genevensis Medal 2016 [University of Geneva, Switzerland]
Sigillum Magnum 2014 [University of Bologna, Italy]
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012 [UK]
Honorary citizen of Tirana 2011 [Albania]
Officer of the National Order of Merit 2010 [France]
Key to the City of Santiago 2010 [Chile]
Commander of the Order of the Grand Star Djibouti 2009 [Djibouti]
Order of the Order of the Royal Family 1st Class 2009 [Eswatini]
Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit 2008 [Spain]
Grand Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour 2009 [Benin]
President's Medal 2008 [George Washington University, USA]
Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit 2007 [Senegal]
Collar of the Order of Independence 2007 [Qatar]
Order of the Union 1st Class 2007 [United Arab Emirates]
Order of the Star of Mahaputera 1st Class 2007 [Indonesia]
Collar of the Order of Merit 2007 [Qatar]
Key to the City of Tirana 2007 [Albania]
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour 2006 [France]
Medal of Honour of the Arab Union for Veterans and War Victims 2006, 2015
Golden Fleur-de-Lis 2005 [City of Florence, Italy]
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1984 [France]
Order of the Lion 1997 [Finland]
Grand Officer of the National Order of the Lion 1994 [Senegal]
Order of May 1993 [Argentina]
Grand Cross of the Order of Humayun 1968 [Iran]

Prime Minister of Kuwait 2006–11 res
President of the Council of Ministers 2006–11
Minister of the Amiri Diwan 1991–2006
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs 1990–91
Minister of Social Affairs and Labour 1988–90
Minister of Information 1985–88
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information 1979–85
Ambassador to Afghanistan 1971
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Iran 1968
Consul-general to Switzerland 1966
First Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1965

Son of Muhammad Al-Sabah and Nasima Al-Naqib. He married Shahrazad Al-Sabah (1969, divorced 1977), and had issue.

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