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Swaminathan to head Pugwash movement

By Our Special Correspondent

AGRA MARCH I7. Food scientist, M.S. Swaminathan, has been elected to lead the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs for the next five years. This is the first time an Indian has been chosen to preside over the movement launched nearly five decades ago by Albert Einstein Bertrand Russell.

At the 51st annual session of the movement here, it was announced that Prof. Swaminathan would take charge of the assignment later this year.

The Pugwash movement won the Nobel peace prize in 1995 for its contributions to promotion of nuclear disarmament. The outgoing president, Michael Atiyah, welcomed the selection. Prof. Swaminathan ``would help expand the Pugwash agenda in the years ahead to encompass issues relating to health and welfare of the world's people in addition to the traditional Pugwash goals of resolving conflict and eliminating nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction,'' he said.

Prof. Swaminathan is Unesco-Cousteau Professor in Ecotechnology and heads the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.

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