MAURICE STRONG GETS U THANT PEACE AWARD
NEW YORK — Environmentalist Maurice Strong received the U Thant Peace Award May 2 for his “lifelong commitment to the soaring ideals of the United Nations” and his “reverence for our beautiful and bountiful Planet Earth.”
Presenting the award on behalf of The Peace Meditation at the United Nations, Sri Chinmoy told the Canadian leader: “You convincingly manifest the powerful truth that to unite humanity in the cause of pre.serving our Mother Earth is not only good, kind and necessary but also practical, profitable and fruitful.”
Strong, who was Secretary-General of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, known as The Earth Summit, said: “l am overwhelmed to receive the honour that bears the name ofU Thant, and to receive it from the hands of Sri Chinmoy, who has been for so many years the custodian and guardian of the spiritual roots of the United Nations.
“That combination makes this the greatest honour I could possibly imagine.”
The presentation was made at the U.N. Church Center at a ceremony attended by about a hundred diplomats and U.N. staff members.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 25, April-July 1996