Angela Merkel receives UNESCO peace prize for welcoming refugees in Germany

Angela Merkel receives UNESCO peace prize for welcoming refugees in Germany

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Category : Awards Published on: February 15 2023

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Angela Merkel, former chancellor of Germany, has received the UNESCO peace prize award for welcoming more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers to Germany in 2015 and 2016.
All jury members, including jury chair and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, chose Merkel for the honor after being impressed by her courageous decision to welcome more than 1.2 million refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Eritrea in 2015.
In the 2005 national elections, Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany, and is one of the leading figures of the European Union.
On 14 March 2014, she became Chancellor of Germany for the fourth and last time.
The UNESCO Peace Prize is named after the former President of Ivory Coast.
Officially it is called the Felix Houphouet-Boigny-UNESCO Peace Prize.
The award was established by a resolution supported by 120 countries.

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