WORLD SCIENCE DAY FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT

Budapest, Hunagary – 10 November 2007

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Award Ceremony for UNESCO Science Prizes

On the occasion of World Science Day for Peace and Development, two UNESCO prizes will be awarded, the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation and the Great-Man Made River International Water Prize for « Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas ». For the 2007 edition, the Sultan Qaboos Prize is shared by the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (Ethiopia) and Dr Julius Oszlányi (Slovakia). The Great-Man Made River Prize has been attributed to two research teams in the USA, the first from the Centre for the Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas at the University of Arizona and the second from the Centre for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the University of California. The prize-giving ceremony will take place on 10 November at the Hungarian Parliament in the presence of Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO.

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