Iranian students bag Peace and Cooperation School Award
Iranian students received United Nations Peace and Cooperation School Award. Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi received the award on behalf of the Iranian winners, IRNA reported.
The ceremony was attended by United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Director Simonetta Di Pippo, Founder of Peace and Cooperation Foundation Joaquín Antuña, Head of International Teachers Associations Elvira Sánchez-blake and the new Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations Gonzalo de Salazar.
Eight Iranian students received awards or diplomas in six categories of the 2017 event called ‘Looking at the Stars: The Future of the World’.
Students from Hong Kong, China, Hungary, Turkey, Spain, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Latvia, the Philippines, Mexico, Bosnia-herzegovina, Morocco and Saudi Arabia also received awards.
Peace and Cooperation is a non-governmental organization that has achieved recognition for its untiring defense of peace and non-violence.
One of its most outstanding initiatives has been to recognize, with its ‘Peace and Cooperation School Award’, the efforts of those who work towards the ideals of peace, multicultural relations and diversity from all corners of the world.
Peace and Cooperation was founded in 1982 by the Spanish peace activist and writer Joaquin Antuña and was nominated as a peace messenger organization by the United Nations in 1986, according to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and Peace and Cooperation website.