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Philippines honours Speaker with congressional medal

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NEW DELHI, APRIL 7. The Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Achievement by the House of Representatives of the Congress (Parliament) of the Philippines. The medal and citation were presented to Mr. Chatterjee by the Speaker of the Lower House of the Parliament of Philippines, Jose De Venecia Jr., in the presence of parliamentarians from both countries.

As per the citation, Mr. Chatterjee was presented the medal "in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the cause of representative democracy — as a member now serving his tenth term in his country's Parliament — during which he represented faithfully the interests of India's trade unionists and work-people.

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