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9th Annual Peace Symposium
London, United Kingdom, 2012
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih V addressing the 9th Annual Peace Symposium
Mayor of London Boris Johnson presenting His Holiness with a London bus souvenir
Dame Mary Richardson DBE, UK President of SOS Children’s Villages, accepting the ‘Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace’ from His Holiness
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih V talking to the overseas Pakistani press regarding world affairs
On March 24, 2012, the 9th Annual Peace Symposium was held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden—the largest Mosque in Western Europe—organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama‘at (Community) in the UK. The event attracted an audience of more than 1000 people, including government ministers, ambassadors of state, members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the Mayor of London, various other dignitaries, professionals, neighbours and guests from all walks of life. The theme of this year’s Symposium was ‘International Peace’. The 3rd Annual ‘Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for the Advancement of Peace’ was presented by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) to the charity, ‘SOS Children’s Villages UK,’ in recognition of its continued efforts to alleviating the suffering of orphaned and abandoned children around the world and towards fulfilling its vision of ‘a loving home for every child.’
Guests in attendance included:
Rt Hon Justine Greening—MP, Secretary of State for Transport
Jane Ellison—MP (Battersea)
Seema Malhotra—MP (Feltham and Heston)
Tom Brake—MP (Carlshalton and Wallington)
Virendra Sharma—MP (Ealing and Southall)
Lord Tariq Ahmad—of Wimbledon
HE Wesley Momo Johnson—the Ambassador of Liberia
HE Abdullah Al-Radhi—the Ambassador of Yemen
HE Miguel Solano-Lopez—the Ambassador of Paraguay
Commodore Martin Atherton—Naval Regional Commander
Councillor Jane Cooper—the Worshipful Mayor of Wandsworth
Councillor Milton McKenzie MBE—the Worshipful Mayor of Barking and Dagenham
Councillor Amrit Mann—the Worshipful Mayor of Hounslow
Siobhan Benita—independent Mayoral candidate for London
Diplomats from several other countries including India, Canada, Indonesia and Guinea