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Post by pledm on Oct 9, 2009 10:08:32 GMT -5
 Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize OSLO — In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” “He has created a new international climate,” the committee said in its announcement. President Obama’s name had not figured in speculation about the likely winner until minutes before the prize was announced here. Likely candidates had been seen here as including human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa. The committee said it wanted to enhance Mr. Obama’s diplomatic efforts. “We are awarding Obama for what he has done,” the committee said. “Many other people and leaders and nations have to respond in a positive way” to President Obama’s diplomacy. The announcement noted the special importance the committee attached to President Obama’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons. “Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play,” the committee said. Walter Gibbs reported from Oslo, and Alan Cowell from London.  |
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Post by Bob on Oct 13, 2009 1:53:45 GMT -5
The nominations from the Nobel committee had to be handed in at latest in mid February, which means that Obama had been President for roughly two weeks when the nomination was made. Hardly a long enough time to see what he has done for world peace. Right now he is involved in two wars - Iraq and Afghanistan. He might be a good president (I am sure of that) and able to think more out of the box than the previous one, but Nobel Peace Price??? Come on... Then again, the price has gone to less deserving people in the past, like Yasser Arafat...  |
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Post by pledm on Oct 13, 2009 11:03:41 GMT -5
Hi bobin,I agree with you I was alittle shocked by the announcement but also understand why they did it,he has so much possiblities and he really is changing and giving hope to others,not just in North Am but around the world.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
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