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November 17th: the Minister Maroni received the Roosevelt Disability Award 2003

On November 17th 2003 Roberto Maroni, the Italian Minister of Welfare, received the prestigious International Franklin Delano Roosevelt Disability Award at UNO Palace in New York. Maroni replaced Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the President of the Republic, who had to come back to Italy after the attack on the Italian peace contingent. The prize confirms the great effort of the Italian government on disability problems and arouses a future engagement in this field.
The Ministry will propose to allocate the money ($50.000) to the National Council for Disability and the 1000 wheelchairs to Associations members of FISH (Italian Federation for Handicap Overcoming) and FAND (National Federation of Associations for Disability).
The prize is conferred by the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute to a Country that carried out normative progress for the integration of people with disabilities and developed very innovative practises.
The International Disability Award was conferred to the Minister Maroni on 17th November, at 11 am, during a ceremony at the presence of the UNO General Secretary Kofi Annan. The official explanation affirms that “The Italian policy improves the living conditions of many people with disabilities and at the same time it is also an example for other nations”.
Maroni declared “I am honoured for taking part in this ceremony as representative of Italy and substitute of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the President of the Republic, who had to be present at the funeral rites of Italian soldiers killed in Iraq. The explanation that accompanies the prize recognizes the Italian progress in carrying out the targets of the UNO Program on the problems of people with disabilities”.
The Minister also added “This prize recognizes the efforts of Italian institutions and citizens, but above all of the volunteers who are engaged every day to favour the integration of people with disabilities. For this reason, I wanted to dedicate this prize to them during the prize-giving ceremony”.
The Roosevelt Disability Award will be conferred to Ciampi at the end of the Closing Conference of the European Year of People with Disabilities.

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