WTCGP President Joanna Savvides

The award was announced on November 7 during the UNA-GP 2005 Global Citizenship Awards gala dinner at the Crystal Tea Room. This was the first year the United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia presented the Regional Business Honor Award.

In receiving the award, Joanna Savvides first thanked the United Nations for realizing “the synergy that exists between the business community and the UN.” She then shared her personal memories of how the UN influences people’s lives. Ms. Savvides witnessed Turkey’s invasion into her native Cyprus and the suffering it caused to the civilians. She still remembers how happy her countrymen were to see the UN peace-keepers.

“Now, I try to make a difference and contribute to the common effort aimed at reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals,” she said. “The World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia is strongly committed to develop a global partnership for development, which is one of the eight UN Millennium Goals. As the United Nations, we strive to provide for global peace and prosperity. We contribute to economic growth of developing countries through international trade growth.”

The United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia also presented 2005 Global Citizenship Awards. Each year these awards honor two people, one regional figure and one national figure, who support and advocate for the mission of the UN, its member organizations and the Millennium Development Goals.

This year’s Global Citizenship Awards recipients were:

- Craig Eisendrath - the former Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a co-founder of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a winner of the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for his work leading up to the Outer Space Treaty

and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington D.C., and

- Trudy Rubin - the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary in 2001, and a former Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.

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