PRESS RELEASE: Timor-Leste President Ramos-Horta Speaks at the Ateneo

Professor José Ramos-Horta

Professor José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste and 1996 Nobel Laureate for Peace, will give a Lecture on "Is Long Lasting Peace an Attainable Dream?" at the Ateneo de Davao University at two-thirty in the afternoon, 14 January 2009.

President Horta's talk, hosted by the Ateneo de Davao University in cooperation with Bridges: Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace and the International Peace Foundation in Bangkok, Thailand, is part of a program to bring Nobel laureates to the Philippines. Its topic of peace is most timely for Mindanao.

The lecture will be held at the 7/F Finster Hall Auditorium, Jacinto Campus. It is open to the general public and admission is free.

For a reserved seat, please contact Venus at (82) 221.2411 local 8201 or send an e-mail to pres@addu.edu.ph ; or fax to (82) 226.4116 or send SMS thru SMART: key in OP [space] FEEDBACK [space] YOUR MESSAGE and send to 700ADDU.

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