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Max van der Stoel Award 2009
The Max van der Stoel Award was held on 14 October 2009 in The Hague.
The 2009 Award was presented to the Integration and Development Centre for Information and Research, a non-governmental organization from Crimea, Ukraine, for its efforts to promote tolerance and understanding among the multi-ethnic population of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and to facilitate genuine integration and participation of all ethnic communities.
L-r: Dutch Minister for European Affairs Frans Timmermans, Margarita Aradzhyonia, Max van der Stoel, Oleg Smirnov and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek, at the Max van der Stoel award presentation, The Hague, 14 October 2009. (OSCE/Arnaud Roelofsz)
L-r: Margarita Aradzhyonia and Oleg Smirnov collect the 2009 Max van der Stoel award on behalf of the Ukrainian NGO Integration and Development Centre for Information and Research, The Hague, 14 October 2009. (OSCE/Arnaud Roelofsz)
Margarita Aradzhyonia (l) and Oleg Smirnov (c) collect the Max van der Stoel award from Dutch Minister for European Affairs Frans Timmermans (r) for Ukrainian NGO Integration and Development Centre for Information and Research, The Hague, 14 October 2009. (OSCE/Arnaud Roelofsz)
A conflict resolution class in Gvardeiskoye, Crimea, sponsored by the Integration and Development Centre for Information and Research (IDC) from Crimea, Ukraine. IDC is the 2009 winner of the Max van der Stoel Award. (OSCE/Oleg Smironov)