Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award

The Governor-General, Hon Anand Satyanand, received the prestigious Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award on behalf of New Zealand at the United Nations in New York on 6 May 2008. The Governor-General and Mike Gourley, President of the New Zealand Disabled Person's Assembly are pictured being led into the ECOSOC Chamber at the UN by a Maori cultural party. The ceremony can be viewed on the UN website at: www.un.org/webcast/2008.html or you can read the Governor-General's speech here: www.gg.govt.nz/media/speeches.asp Photo: Bob Goldberg, FPS Photo.