Friday 12 December 2008

Bono Receiving the Peace Summit Award in Paris

PARIS - Nobel peace laureates gathered in Paris today, 12th December, to award Bono the annual "Man of Peace" prize for his crusade to tackle African debt, poverty and disease. He was given the Peace Summit Award by the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe, who hosted the event, in presence of five Nobel winners, in recognition of two decades of global anti-poverty activism.

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Photo: The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe and the former Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni with Bono at the award ceremony - the B-man looking very good I must say!

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