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Press Release
HER EXCELLENCY
SHEIKHA HAYA RASHED AL KHALIFA
PRESIDENT OF THE 61ST SESSION OF THE
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TO RECEIVE THE 2007 PATH TO PEACE AWARD
On 12 June 2007 the Path to Peace Foundation will
bestow the 2007 Path to Peace Award to Her Excellency Sheikha Haya Rashed
Al Khalifa, President of the Sixty-first session of the United Nations
General Assembly.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the
Holy See to the United Nations, and President of the Path to Peace
Foundation, announced that Ms. Al Khalifa has been unanimously selected to
receive the Award by the Board of the Path to Peace Foundation, an agency
established to carry out the projects to support the work of the Holy See
Mission to the United Nations.
At the time of her election as President of the General Assembly, Ms. Al
Khalifa was serving as Legal Adviser to the Royal Court in the Kingdom of
Bahrain. She brings to the post a long and distinguished legal career at
both the national and international levels. One of the first women to
practice law in her country, she has held many senior positions with
leading legal organizations of the world including the International Bar
Association, where she was vice-chairwoman of the arbitration and dispute
resolution committee, the first woman from the Middle East to serve in
this capacity. In addition she has served her country as Ambassador to
France, from 2000 to 2004, and as non-resident Ambassador to Belgium,
Switzerland and Spain. Over the same period she was the Kingdom’s
permanent representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO). She was also a member of the World
Intellectual Property Organization’s Arbitration Centre Consultative
Committee and became Bahrain’s representative on the International Court
of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, an appointment
that she still holds today.
Ms. Al Khalifa has presented numerous papers at legal conferences across
the United States, Europe and Asia, on diplomacy, international
arbitration, dispute resolution and the status of women in the Middle
East.
It is in recognition of her dedicated efforts on behalf of peace and
development that the Path to Peace Foundation honors Her Excellency
Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa with the 2007 Path to Peace Award, which
will be presented at a Gala Dinner held by the Foundation at the United
Nations Headquarters in New York City.
New York, 4 June 2007
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