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Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2002

Fundación
Príncipe de Asturias

Presidente

Oviedo, 12 June 2002

Dr. Peter D. Clarkson
Executive Secretary
SCAR
Scott Polar Research Institute
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 lER United Kingdom

Dear Dr. Clarkson,

On behalf of the Prince of Asturias Foundation, I have the honour of officially informing you that the Jury for the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2002 has voted to grant this award to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.

Our Foundation was created in 1980, at a ceremony held in Oviedo presided over by Their Majesties The King and Queen of Spain and His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias, the Honorary President of our institution.

The Foundation has granted the Prince of Asturias Awards every year since 1981.
They are meant to reward the scientific, technical, cultural, social, and humanitarian work performed by individuals, groups, or institutions worldwide.
These awards are divided into eight different categories: Communications and Humanities, Arts, Letters, Social Sciences, Technical and Scientific Research, Sports, International Cooperation, and Concord.

The Awards are presented in Oviedo at a solemn ceremony presided over by H.R.H. the Prince of Asturias that is full of great symbolic and emotive content. Award winners from all of the different categories, alongside important figures from the worlds of society, politics and culture of Europe and America will attend. Hundreds of journalists, the major television networks - which broadcast live -, radio stations, and press agencies from around the world will provide news coverage of the ceremony.

Each of the Prince of Asturias Awards consists of a diploma, a unique symbolic representation of the award - in the guise of a Joan Miró sculpture -, an insignia depicting the Foundation's shield, and a cash prize of 50.000 euros.

Among the personalities who have received our Awards are King Hussein I of Jordan, Nelson Mandela and Fredrick Willem De Klerk, Yaser Arafat and Isaac Rabin, Mijail Gorbachov, Dr. Stephen Hawking, Dr. Robert Gallo and Dr. Luc Montagnier, musicians Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich, the Cable News Network (CNN), the German writer Gúnter Grass, the Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, Umberto Eco, Cardenal Martini, John H. Elliott, Raymond Carr, George Steiner, the German tennis player Steffi Graf, etc.

The Royal Household has set 25 October as the date for the presentation ceremony.

The Regulations for the Prince of Asturias Awards also establish that the Foundation should organise a series of conferences to be given by the award winners. These are generally held in the days immediately after or prior to the ceremony. We will be contacting you in the near future to finalise the details of your trip to and stay in Asturias, conferences, and other events that may be programmed.

I very much hope to be able to greet you in Oviedo, and send you my warmest congratulations and sincerest regards.

José Ramón Álvarez Rendueles

P.S.: Please find enclosed the Minutes of the Jury.

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