Helen Thomas Honors

Commissioner General of the PLO in Washington

honors journalist Helen Thomas

Sunday, 1/4/2012 21:51 PM 

WASHINGTON - Palestine Press - honored the High Commission for the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, the American journalist and writer of Lebanese descent, Helen Thomas. 
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The award ceremony was held at the home of President of the Commission General of the PLO in Washington, Ambassador Maen Rashid Erekat, in recognition of the long march of Thomas in the field of journalism and writing, which has long defended the Palestinian cause. 
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The ceremony was attended by a group of ambassadors, diplomats and representatives of the Arab embassies, journalists and human rights associations and the heads of American and Arab in the United States, with the participation of a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Hanan Ashrawi.
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Ashrawi and provided an estimate of the Thomas Medal on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, and informed her greeting and appreciation of the president and the Palestinian leadership, for all submitted and add it to the Palestinian cause in the West. 
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The Ambassador Erekat, a certificate of appreciation to Thomas on behalf of the Commissioner General of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, praised the achievements that always talked about our people's right to liberty and self-determination, where the press the most aggressive in raising issues concerning the Middle East, which was and still is the most important and oldest White House Correspondents . 
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He also expressed his thanks to Thomas on behalf of all Palestinians in the homeland and diaspora, emphasizing the importance of all that put forward for the rights of our people deprived of the American political landscape.