NOBEL PEACE PRIZE(2009) FOR BARACK OBAMA

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE(2009)
FOR BARACK OBAMA
United States President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday 9th September 2009. The jury hailed Mr Obama's 'extraordinary efforts in international diplomacy and to hasten nuclear disarmament'. ' Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for better future' the Nobel jury said.
The Committee attached 'special importance to Obama's vision and work for a world with out nuclear weapons and had created a new climate in international politics.
Mr Obama has brought the Israeli and Palestinian leaders together for a meeting approved new diplomatic engagements with Iran, Myanmar and North Korea and Signaled a new willingness to attack growing environmental problems.
Mr Obama went to Cairo to make a major speech on relations with the Muslim world. At the United Nations, he has launched an initiative to reduce the number of nuclear weapons.
The Nobel Committee said Mr Obama was honoured' for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co operation between peoples and added that it was a unanimous decision.

Prof John Kurakar