Prez. Kufuor to receive Chatham House Prize

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President J.A Kufuor has been named as the winner of this year¢s prestigious Chatham House Prize, a release from the UK highest International Affairs and Research think-tank announced in London at the weekend.

President Kufuor was selected as winner ahead of H.E. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Germany Republic , HH Agha Khan, Founder of the Agha Khan Development Network and Ambassador Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the US .

President Kufuor will be presented with the prize by the Duke of Edinburgh in Drapers (the Financial district of London), in October 28, 2008.

The annual Chatham House Prize is awarded to the Statesperson, who is deemed by the House to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement to international relations.

President Kufuor¢s award is in recognition of his positive role in mediating conflicts with Ghana ¢s immediate neighbours including Liberia and Cote d¢Ivoire as well as his contributions to the growth in the economy, social freedoms and the development of a robustly free press.

The Chatham House award which is increasingly emerging as the British equivalent of the Nobel Prize, has been previously won by President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, (2005), President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, (2006) and H.E. Sheikha Mozah,the Consort of His Highness the Emir of Qatar, (2007).

signed: ANDREW AWUNI PRESS SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT & PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN