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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-03-20
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[01] PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS -HARVARD SCHOOL - DEAN - DECORATION
[01] PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS -HARVARD SCHOOL - DEAN - DECORATION
Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos decorated Harvard`s School of
Public Health Dean Barry Bloom with the Great Cross of the Order of
Makarios III.
Speaking during the decoration ceremony, Papadopoulos described it as a
``moral obligation,`` because both Bloom and Harvard embraced and
supported the aim of Cyprus to turn the island into a regional research
centre on environmental and public health issues, and the result of
this aim was the establishment of the Cyprus International School for
the Environment and Public Health in association with the Harvard
School of Public Health.
``Our aim was, and remains to turn the Institute into a pioneering
academic and research centre which will safeguard the environment and
promote public health, not only for the sake of our own people, but
also for the peoples of neighbouring countries,`` President
Papadopoulos added.
``The issues that concern the environment and public health have
neither geographical boundaries nor time limits. They are issues that
concern all of us and are valid for life. They are issues that demand
universal awareness and collective effort,`` the President concluded.
Speaking during the ceremony, Bloom praised the Cypriot leadership
which had a vision, shared by Harvard ``to bring scientists,
researchers, educators and government officials and the business
community together, from Harvard, Cyprus and from other countries in
the Eastern Mediterranean Region, North Africa and the Middle East to
provide scientific information that will enable all of us to preserve
and protect the fragile environment of the island and region and to
improve the public`s health and well being.``
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