FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUTISM SPEAKS APPLAUDS THE STATE OF QATAR FOR THE CREATION OF ANNUAL UNITED NATIONS WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS DAY An Unprecedented Global Effort to Increase Awareness About Autism Begins April 2, 2008 NEW YORK, NY (November 27, 2007) -- Autism Speaks Co-Founders Bob and Suzanne Wright today joined H.E. Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, at a press conference announcing that April 2 will be designated World Autism Awareness Day following the adoption of the Qatari resolution on World Autism Awareness Day at the plenary of the Third Committee of the General Assembly. The 192 representatives of the U.N.'s Third Committee --that handles social, humanitarian and cultural issues -- adopted the WAAD resolution by consensus, paving the way for the establishment of what will be one of an exclusive group of official disease or disorder-specific United Nations Days. Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint...