World Summit for Nobel Peace Laureates will be Held in Atlanta this November as Scheduled; Host Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus sent a confirmation letter to Nobel Secretariat

ATLANTA, April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The host Nobel Peace Prize winner for the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has informed the Secretariat that the Atlanta Summit will be held as scheduled in November.  This is a reaffirmation of the decision of the board that was taken on the March 10^th board meeting.

"This will be an opportunity to push back all the past differences and move forward with goodwill and unconditional support for the Atlanta Summit," wrote Professor Yunus to Nobel Secretariat representative Enzo Cursio.  The Atlanta Summit "will not be tarnished by any bad feeling anywhere," Professor Yunus wrote.

Dr. Bhuiyan and his wife Shamima Amin have worked for the last two years without any pay and with ceremonial titles raising money and organizing the Summit and they do not have any control of the fund.  More than $3 million has been raised, enough to fund the meeting of potentially 30 individuals and 15 organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the past.

The Atlanta Organizing Committee for the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit has issued a request for proposals to hire an event management agency and public relations marketing firm to work on the Summit. The Summit is also in the process of hiring a professional event manager on staff.

A statement from the World Summit board reads: The Nobel Peace Laureates Summit is not the Olympics and does not require huge staff but it does have global implications.  It is a great opportunity for students and leaders from around the state, the country and the world to benefit from participating in sessions with them while they are in Atlanta.

About the Summit:

The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is a gathering of past Nobel Peace Prize winners.  The upcoming Summit in Atlanta will be November 15-19 at the Georgia World Congress Center.  Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus is host of the Summit along with Summit Co-Chair Nobel Laureate Jimmy Carter.  Thousands of students from local universities and high schools will participate in the sessions.

SOURCE Atlanta Organizing Committee for the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit