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Warsaw to host Nobel Peace Prize winners

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Peter Gentle 03.01.2013 08:10
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov, the Dalai Lama and former South African President Frederik de Klerk have confirmed their participation in a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners to be held in Warsaw in October.

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The meeting is to be hosted by the Lech Wałęsa Institute and will mark the 30 th anniversary of awarding the then chairman of the Solidarity Trade Union with the Nobel Peace Prize and will coincide with Wałęsa’s 70th birthday.

Invitations have also been extended to former US President Jimmy Carter and the leader of the Burmese opposition Aung San Suu Kyi.

Nobel Peace Prize winners have held regular meetings for over ten years now.

The meetings were recently held in Chicago, Berlin and Rome: details of this year’s Warsaw get-together are to be announced at the end of this month. (mk/pg)

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