National Gold Medal
Vector of the National Gold Medal
Typesingle grade order
Awarded forPresident of Laos and specially foriegners.
Presented by Laos
StatusActive
Established1981
First awarded1981, Vietnam Lê Duẩn
Ribbon of the National Gold Medal

National Gold Medal (Lao: ຫລຽນຄຳແຫ່ງຊາດ) is a highest award of Lao People's Democratic Republic. This honor created in 1981 by first Laotian president Souphanouvong. The honour awarded for President of Laos and specially foreigners.[1][2]

This honour first awarded to a former leader of Communist Party of Vietnam, Lê Duẩn, during an official state visit.[1] In 1989 this honour awarded to Souphanouvong on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Another notable recipients of this honour include Kim Il Sung, Hun Sen, Fidel Castro, Leonid Brezhnev, Nguyễn Phú Trọng and Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

Design

The badge is round breast and it's gold, the across long 37mm, with hero style suspension and red ribbon which wide 22mm. Obverse is a sharp pointed gold star, surmounting a gold disk with a cogwheel with rice sheaves around, and below the name of the award in badge, ຫລຽນຄຳແຫ່ງຊາດ (lian kam haeng-saaht).

Notable recipients

References

  1. 1 2 THE ORDERS AND MEDALS OF THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
  2. ↑ "Laos confers noble medals to Vietnamese senior leaders". VGP News. 5 September 2007. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Kim 2020, p. 12.
  4. ↑ "Otorga Laos a Fidel y Raúl la Medalla de Oro de la Nación" (in Spanish). 5 February 1986. p. 7. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. ↑ David Fay. "National Gold Medal". Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "Biography of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn". The golden Jubilee Network. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
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