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Messengers of the Peace it rewards the Spanish journalists who have covered the War of Iraq
MADRID. - The Association Messengers of the Peace has delivered the prizes ' Pen of the Peace ' to the Spanish journalists who moved to Iraq between the year 2003 and 2006 to cover the warlike conflict suffered from the country.
The ' Pen of the Peace ' is an award created by the Association Messengers of the Peace in 1980, with which there wants to be rewarded the humanitarian side of the professionals of the press and to recognize their sensibility on having denounced the human suffering there where it is.
The founder and president of the Association, the father Angel, did a special mention to the Princess of Asturias, with whom he said that he coincided with Iraq when she was only Letizia Ortiz and was working for TVE, and remembered also both journalists died in that war, the reporter of El Mundo Julio A. Parrado and Telecinco Jose's cámara Couso.
The father Angel indicated that the Princess of Asturias was grateful to them for letter for the distinction and it reported that twenty years ago her grandmother Menchu del Valle got the same prize in Oviedo for a qualified article " The pen and the peace ".
Between the winning ones there are 12 journalists of the Agency EFE, the Spanish way that more persons displeased to report of the war of Iraq, that there covered also professionals of other means as El Mundo, ' The Country ', ' The Forefront ', TVE, Telecinco or Antenna 3.
The president of the Association was grateful to all for the realized work and refirió especially to some " old glories " of the journalism, of that it was said that " they are major as me ", to refer to Tico Medina and to Luis del Olmo, who came to receive the award.
For the father Angel, the prize distinguishes the made well work and the one that " was helping to move wills in opposition to a war, unjust, as all ".
Also he underlined the help received of the diplomats, who facilitated bureaucratic labors in order that one could have brought Spain to almost 200 children and adult Iraqis.
At the delivery of the prizes, which consisted of a pen with a symbolic value and a diploma, the ambassador of Iraq was present also in Spain, Falal Al-Khudairi, who emphasized the courage of the journalists on having reported to the rest of the world, underlined the good relations between his country and Spain, and sent a message of hope in order that it could reach the definitive peace in its people.