Mediterranean Award "Peace" 2007 to Shirin Ebadi

Naples | 05 March 2007
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Mediterranean Awards

Fondazione Mediterraneo bestowed the "Mediterranean Peace Award" and the title of "Ambassador of the United States of the World" to the Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize for Peace.
The awarding ceremony was held at the Sala Vesuvio of FM.

Michele Capasso illustrated the grounds of this prize in his speech of welcome, underlining Dr Ebadi’s engagement in favour of children, in order to make them growing up in a world without violence.

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Mediterranean Award "Special Edition" 2007 to Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan

Rome | 09 February 2007
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Mediterranean Awards

The Fondazione Mediterraneo awarded the Queen Rania Al-Abdullah the "Mediterranean Award for Social Solidarity".
The President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Mr. Pier Ferdinando Casini, and the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Mr. Michele Capasso, awarded the prize during a ceremony held at the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome, where the Italian Chamber of Deputies meets.

The prize pays tribute to Queen Rania’s work to promote the education of girls and thus integrate the various sectors of Arab society into the global development process.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo awards the Mediterranean Prize in partnership with international institutions, such as the IPU, that support dialogue and cultural and social interaction in the Mediterranean region.

Last year, for example, the IPU organized a preparatory meeting for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean at the Fondazione Mediterraneo headquarters in Naples.

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Mediterranean Award "Diplomacy" 2007 to Erkki Tuomioja

Tampere | 27 November 2006
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Mediterranean Awards

"If our goal is a world in which peaceful coexistence reigns, cultural engagement on common ground is indispensable. Such encounters are possible especially in the Greater Mediterranean region allowing each culture to discover each other´s beliefs: Finland is one of the main actors in this process".

With these words Michele Capasso, president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo gave Erkki Tuomioja, the Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs, the nomination for the “Mediterranean  Award for Diplomacy 2007” during the Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Tampere (Finland). With this prize, Capasso underlined, the Fondazione Mediterraneo wanted to award “the important role of Finland in promoting the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue” as well as Tuomioja work encouraged by a “democratic pluralistic conception developed during a political and diplomatic experience of high importance.” Since its creation in 1995, the prize has been awarded to such prominent personalities as Kiro Gligorov, Hassan II of Morocco, Suzanne Mubarak, Hussein bin Talal of Jordan, Leah Rabin, the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan, Naguib Mahfouz and Juan Carlos I king of Spain.

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Mediterranean Award "Diplomacy" 2006 to Mohamed Bedjaoui

Naples | 20 October 2006
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Mediterranean Awards

Welcomed by president Michele Capasso, vice-president Caterina Arcidiacono, Claudio Azzolini, Wassyla Tamzali, and other members of the Fondazione Mediterraeno as well as by ministers plenipotentiary Cosimo Risi and Antonio D’Andria, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Bedjaoui, with the Italian Ambassador to Algiers Gianfranco Verderame and the Algerian Ambassador to Italy Rachid Marif, received the “Mediterranean Diplomacy Award 2006” and the title of "Ambassador of the United States of the World".

Before arriving in Naples, the Algerian Minister had a friendly meeting with Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy, who congratulated him on receiving the award and he spoke about the outstanding personalities who received it before him.

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