NEW DELHI, India, Nov.25, and Reuter: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been awarded the 1987 Indira Gandhi award for peace, disarmament and development, the Indira Memorial Trust announced on Wednesday.
It said the prize had been given to Gorbachev “in recognition of his bold and imaginative proposals to initiate a positive and practical process of nuclear disarmament and his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons”,
The 150,000 rupees (11.500dolJar) prize was instituted in memory of the Indian Prime Minister who ‘was assassinated by her body ‘guards on October 31, 1984,
Gorbachev will receive the award on November 19, 1988, Gandhi’s 71st birth anniversary, the Trust said. The prize last year was given to Parliamentarians Global Action, an organization of legislators from 36 countries.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 4, 1987
