President Barack Obama has been chosen for the Noble Peace Prize 2009 on Friday, for his brilliant efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples and mentioning his outreach to the Muslim world and efforts to curb nuclear proliferation according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
As President, Obama has created a new environment in international politics. Nobel observers have shocked because Obama got office fewer than two weeks prior to the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Multilateral diplomacy has recovered a central position with importance on the role which can be played by the United Nations and other international institutions. Many Noble observers believed for Obama that it was too early to award the President when the name of Obama had been mention in consideration before the award.
In Oslo, the decision to confer one of the world’s top honor on a president whose first term is less than nine months, however who has to score a several foreign policy success, aggravated wheezes of surprise from journalists at the declaration.The Norwegian Nobel Committee has hunted to arouse specifically that Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman for international policy and attitudes.
The Committee sanctions Obama’s plea in Obama’s word was “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.” Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee told that “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,” Obama has been a main person for important proposals in the U.N. for nuclear disarmament. On December 10, the prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be given in Oslo.
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