PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA RECEIVES 1999 PATH TO PEACE AWARD

VATICAN CITY, JUN 16, 1999 (VIS) - This evening in New York, President Carlos Saul Menem of Argentina will become the seventh recipient of the Path to Peace Award, bestowed annually by the Path to Peace Foundation in recognition of an individual's outstanding leadership in the international community. The foundation's founder and president is Archbishop Renato Martino, apostolic nuncio and Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations.

According to a communique from the foundation, "the designation of President Menem as this year's honoree acknowledges his leadership among the Argentinean people, especially his efforts in defense of the family and the right to life."

"The Path to Peace Foundation, established in 1991," adds the communique, "is a non-profit foundation providing support for the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, in fulfilling its further humanitarian mandate of keeping the moral standards and message of the Gospel before the universal community and of assisting the Holy Father in encouraging all towards the Path to Peace. ... (The foundation), independent from but in collaboration with the Holy See Mission, directs its activities primarily, albeit not exclusively, to the international stage of the United Nations."

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