FORMER Ambassador Andreas Jacovides has been presented with the Onassis Distinguished Scholar award by the Rhodes Academy of Maritime Law and Policy.
The award, presented at a formal ceremony the Grand Master’s Mediaeval Palace in Rhodes, last month, was given jointly to Jacovides and Professor Emmanuel Roucounas for their “many contributions to the Rhodes Academy and for their life-long career of distinguished accomplishments in promoting the rule of law in the world’s oceans”.
The Rhodes Academy consists of five academic institutions, which have been holding, for the past 11 years, an intensive three-week course on oceans law and policy for junior international law officials at foreign ministries, graduate students and others (more than 80 nationalities, 74 faculty members and 400 graduates in all). Many Rhodes Ocean scholars are now officials in governments and international organisations or lecturers at academic institutions around the world.
Senior Greek government officials, including the Minister for the Aegean, Aristotelis Pavlides and deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Valinakis attended the ceremony. Pavlides presented the award to Professor Roucounas and Valinakis to Ambassador Iacovides.
Professor John Morton Moore, former Ambassador of the US to the Law of the Sea Conference, said Jacovides was “a noted authority in the Law of the Sea with many scholarly presentations and publications.” The ambassador, who had been a diplomatic representative to the UN Conference of the Law of the Sea, “continued to provide leadership for many years on this subject in the United Nations,” said Professor Moore.
In accepting his award, Ambassador Jacovides thanked the Academy which he said had “more than amply proven its value as the outstanding institution in promoting and teaching the rule of law in the world’s seas and oceans.”
He added: “It has a very distinguished record of achievements and fully deserves support to continue its constructive work in Greece.” He also praised the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation “for its generous support and for recognising the importance of the work of the Academy, especially to Greece, with its seafaring tradition.”
In his long service as a diplomat, Jacovides was the former Cyprus Ambassador to America in Washington.
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