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[Capt M Kumar]

WASHINGTON: The Appeal of Conscience Foundation has announced it will felicitate Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with its prestigious World Statesman Award for the year 2010.



The award would be presented to the Prime Minister in September, said John Negroponte, the former Deputy Secretary of State, at a reception hosted at the residence of Indian Ambassador to the US. Meera Shankar, in Washington..



Shankar said the Prime Minister has graciously accepted the award.



Among the past recipients of this prestigious award include British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2009), French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2008), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2007) and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2006). http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india...675431.cms