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Annan Bestowed Century Merit Award on His Last Day In Capacity of the UN Sec. General.
Added: (Fri Jan 05 2007)
WNB (International Correspondent) Colombo,31 12 06…. The UN secretary general Kofi Annan has been avowed to be the triumphant-victor of a testmonialy customized ‘century disaster opinion –poll’, commissioned in the refugees camps of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Kashmir and Sumatra.
Along with three co-recipients in addition to him, he has been declared the bequeathee of the 21st century’s coveted most, and an enviously enviable ‘Century Merit Award’. The four vanquishers of the ‘merit award’ have been solemnly consented by a resolution verdict pronouncement, decreed by ‘Century Catastrophe Awards and Honors Scrutiny Committee’, in an academically reared conjunction with the international amnesty and consensus reprieved by an amassing accrual of diverse institutional superfluities of subtextual connotations.
Tzu-Chi; an international welfare foundation from Taiwan, Shadow Intl; a leading Canadian welfare institution and Prof. Dr. Aurangzeb Hafi; an independent researcher from Pakistan, are the other three designated adornees, in addition to the UN secretary general.
In order to typify the endowments for the meritorious renderings, devoted thereupon for ‘the century’s critical and crucial most catastrophe; Tsunami, a ‘Century Merit Award’ was unanimously acquiescenced upon by the representatives from over 89 countries, who attended the concluding session of ‘Tsunami International Summit’ held on 31/ 12/ 2006, at the Provisional Administrative Secretariat of ‘All Universities Steering Committee for Disasters Management Policies’ in Colombo to commemorialize the 2nd anniversary of Tsunami.
In acquaintances to this assenting task-obligation, a selection slate was made by the ‘Century Catastrophe Awards and Honors Scrutiny Committee’ with a purely non political, impartial and unbiased consensus of institutional conglomerations and different international sectors of relevance , with a view to reckon and surmise the impact factor of different relief projects appended by numerous international organizations. This was an important exposition element-fraction of the ‘Tsunami International Summit’ which was string-sequenced to succession by an articulation, aimed for acclamation of ‘real triumph’ appended for the catastrophic pretenses, to pronounce the emanated bona-fide subjugations.
The selection slate draped a summing up abridgement of 13 outscored projects and 20 organizations to bind-swathe the gist denotation. In addition a ‘century disaster opinion –poll’, was customizedly commissioned in the refugees camps of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Kashmir and Sumatra, in order to have the victims their own ‘say’ about ‘who’ did ‘what’ and ‘how’ did it brought some meant-content for them.
Amongst the score-lucrative inductees of the selection slate were The Oxfam, Rotary International, Mavso International, Project CRRM, Lions Club, Save The Children, The SOS and some other local and regional NGO’s.
Presided by Rev. Lt. Gen. (R) S. S. Paru, the summit consisted of nine formal sessions, 11 symposiums, and a total of 17 post summit workshops at different site locations of the affected areas.
Noteworthy policy papers from more than 137 countries were brought into deliberations. Distinguished academicians from over 1400 universities contributed to prepare the ‘Disaster Management Policy Paper’, of which, the final draft is primed for UN and the concerned agencies thereupon.
A resolution has been passed unanimously to establish a £ 3000000 (BPS) worth ‘KASTAH’ scholarship to be awarded on an annual basis for outstanding research, doctoral and post-doctoral studies in the relevant areas of natural disasters management. The scholarship is named after the four recipients of the ‘Century Merit Award’; Kofi Annan, Shadow Intl.,Tzu-chi and Aurangzeb Hafi.
A ‘Disaster Navigation Research Centre’ located at the famous ‘River Kwai’ has also been decreed upon to be re-named as ‘KASTAH’ Navigation Centre.