Peace Summit Award goes to soccer star Roberto Baggio
Nov. 10, 2010
by Yumi Kanazaki, Staff Writer
On November 9, the City of Hiroshima announced that the “Peace Summit Award 2010” will go to Roberto Baggio, the retired professional soccer player from Italy. The recipient of the award is selected by the Nobel Peace laureates who attend the annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. This year’s summit, “The 2010 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates” will be held from November 12 to 14 in Hiroshima. The theme of the gathering is “The Legacy of Hiroshima: A World Without Nuclear Weapons.” In addition to the Peace Summit Award, a special award, to be offered only at the Hiroshima summit to commemorate the holding of the event in this city, will be given to the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
The awards ceremony will be held in Peace Memorial Park on November 14, the last day of the summit. The ceremony will be attended by Mr. Baggio and Sunao Tsuboi, the co-chair of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
Mr. Baggio was such a popular soccer player that he was dubbed “a national treasure” of Italy. According to the summit’s secretariat in Rome, one of the organizers of the summit, Mr. Baggio is being honored for his activities as Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Goodwill Ambassador and his contribution to the campaign to release Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader currently under house arrest in Myanmar.
The secretariat said that the summit will offer a special award to the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations “in order to honor all those who have witnessed and endured the tragic consequences of nuclear bombardments and war, warning with their unbearable suffering present and future generations.”
Commenting on the honor, Mr. Tsuboi said, “I think this award is for all A-bomb survivors. The award encourages me to work hard, for as long as I live, for the abolition of nuclear weapons.”
The Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times.
(Originally published on November 10, 2010)
On November 9, the City of Hiroshima announced that the “Peace Summit Award 2010” will go to Roberto Baggio, the retired professional soccer player from Italy. The recipient of the award is selected by the Nobel Peace laureates who attend the annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. This year’s summit, “The 2010 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates” will be held from November 12 to 14 in Hiroshima. The theme of the gathering is “The Legacy of Hiroshima: A World Without Nuclear Weapons.” In addition to the Peace Summit Award, a special award, to be offered only at the Hiroshima summit to commemorate the holding of the event in this city, will be given to the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
The awards ceremony will be held in Peace Memorial Park on November 14, the last day of the summit. The ceremony will be attended by Mr. Baggio and Sunao Tsuboi, the co-chair of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
Mr. Baggio was such a popular soccer player that he was dubbed “a national treasure” of Italy. According to the summit’s secretariat in Rome, one of the organizers of the summit, Mr. Baggio is being honored for his activities as Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Goodwill Ambassador and his contribution to the campaign to release Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader currently under house arrest in Myanmar.
The secretariat said that the summit will offer a special award to the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations “in order to honor all those who have witnessed and endured the tragic consequences of nuclear bombardments and war, warning with their unbearable suffering present and future generations.”
Commenting on the honor, Mr. Tsuboi said, “I think this award is for all A-bomb survivors. The award encourages me to work hard, for as long as I live, for the abolition of nuclear weapons.”
The Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times.
(Originally published on November 10, 2010)
