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 Award
ceremony for the Indian reporter Barkha Dutt by the international
Center Kostas Kyriazis
On
Wednesday 31 May at 8:30 pm at the hotel Caravel the award ceremony
2006 by the Center Kostas Kyriazis took place.
This
year Mrs. Barkha Dutt, managing editor of New Delhi TV and Mrs. Li
Shengxian, editor of the major cultural magazine of China, China and
the World Cultural Exchange, were awarded.
The
Center Kostas Kyriazis was founded in 1993 in honour of Kostas
Kyriazis, the co-owner of the Greek newspaper “Ethnos”, reporter,
agonist of democracy against the German occupation and the
dictatorship, author and president for an 8 year period at the Greek
Tourist Organisation (EOT).
Besides the honours placed upon Mrs. Dutt and Mrs. Shengxian,
financial awards and honours were also given to:
1.
Reporter and editor in chief of the
economical pages of the Greek newspaper “Kathimerini” Mr. Serafeim
Konstantinidis for his offering of objective economical reports.
2.
Political editor of the Greek newspaper
“Neon” and of the Greek Radio-Television channel ERT, Mr. Loukas
Dimakas for the broad and objective coverage of political and
defensive reporting.
3.
Mrs. Gianna Despotopoulou for her 20-years
service to the Special Olympics.
Furthermore, honours were given to Mr. Aristotelis Divanis for his
long lasting service to the promotion of Greek Tourism, and to the
administrative counsellor of the foundation of the Hellenic World, Mr.
Dimitris Efraimoglou for his contribution to the promotion of the
Hellenic Culture through pioneering technological implementation.
 The
president of the Greek socialist party PASOK and of Socialist parties
worldwide, Mr. G. Papandreou and the Minister of State and spokesman
for the government, Mr. Th. Rousopoulos, both handed over the awards
to Mrs. Dutt and Mrs. Shengxian, in the presence of the ambassadors of
India, Dr. Baskar Balakrishnan, and China, Mrs. Tian Xuejun, the
president of ELINEPA Dr. Dimitris Vassiliades, leaders of delegations,
politicians, general secretaries, entrepreneurs, professors of
universities, many reporters etc.
Read
also:
The
speech of Nikolaos Kyriazis during the awards ceremony (read
the speech)
More
about the reporter
Barkha
Dutt
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