of recent origin DELHI, Nov. 18 Kyo...

of recent origin DELHI, Nov. 18 Kyodo

Sadako Ogata, former UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) arrived here late Sunday to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for her contribution to humanitarian causes.

Ogata, publicly a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in modern York, will receive the prestigious award named after late Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi at a show here Tuesday.

During her visit, Ogata will have about informal engagements on Monday, including a visit to the offices of the UNHCR and the Ford Foundation.

She will also come up to face to face the leader of the opposition Congres Party, Sonia Gandhi, in the evening. Gandhi is the head of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust named after her mother-in-law.

In May 2000 Ogata was the first refugee commissioner to visit India since its formation 50 years ago.

Ogata, who was chief of the UNHCR from 1991 to 2000 assumed office as individual of the co-chairs of the Commission forward Human Security in June last year besides being appointed as Japan's special representative forward Afghan assistance in November 2001

She also co-chaired the International conversation on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan in January this year in Tokyo.

Ogata will leave for Sri Lanka forward Tuesday evening where she is reckon uponed to put forward her views onward resolving the long drawn on the outside ethnic crisis that has left thousands dead upon the island nation.

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