U.S. President Barack obama has won the 2009 nobel peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Obama had been awarded the prize for his calls to reduce the world’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons and work towards restarting the stalled Middle East peace process.
The committee praised Obama for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
“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.”
The laureate wins a gold medal, a diploma and 10 million Swedish crowns (1.4 million dollars or 878,000 pounds).
Obama was one of a record 205 nominees for this year’s prize and the decision has come as a surprise to many. Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, had been tipped as one of the favorites.
Despite his ambitious international agenda, Obama is yet to make a significant breakthrough in the Middle East or effectively deal with the threat of Iran’s nuclear program and his country is currently fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Has Obama done enough to justify winning the Nobel Peace Prize? If not, who do you think should have won?
Does Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? nobel obama peace
i think obama has done nothing for the world to deserve this prize but he is stilll keeping the world troubled by the war in afganistan
and his wide assistance to israel
jazaka Alllahu khairan. Moreover, failing to resist the world pressure regarding his support of Israel, he is turning now to Sudan trying to exert pressure on Arabs and Egypt in order to give up the Goldstone report.