Prince Talal's awards concentrate on people in need

Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz, the chairman of the Arab Gulf program in support of the UN development organizations has said that the main principles of his program's award concentrates on not discriminating among people, to meet the actual requirements of people in need in the developing communities and encouraging developmental creativity.

In a speech he delivered during distribution of awards of the international Arab Gulf program for pioneering development projects, Prince Talal indicated that the committee's award which includes remarkable international figures chooses the award's topics according to three principles. They are the actual need of deprived and margined peoples in the developing societies; the needs of development fields to examples whose experiences are prominent and the need of the world to deepen the concept of not discriminating in regard to development support and in awarding talents and creativity.