PM ducks question on Nobel for Obama

October 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has not won the Nobel Peace Prize as a reward for his peacemaking efforts, rather, it has been bestowed upon him to encourage peace across the world, the Christian Science Monitor opines. The report quoted Gro Holm, the senior commentator on foreign affairs at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., as saying that the prize committee was probably trying to put pressure on him to deliver on the promise of greater international peace and stability.

October 10th, 2009 Speculations are on a high after the US President Barack Obama was declared as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama, who is running the office for a period of less than nine months reportedly said that he himself was "surprised" by the startling announcement.

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama gets the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", it was announced in Oslo Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

October 9th, 2009 Excerpts from 2009 Nobel Peace Prize citationOSLO, Norway — Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama: 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.

October 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday conveyed his wholehearted congratulations to US President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Manmohan Singh told reporters here that he had not heard of the news.

October 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A "surprised and deeply humbled" President Barack Obama said Friday he would accept the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize "as a call to action". "I am both surprised and deeply humbled" by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, a beaming Obama said in brief remarks in the White House Rose Garden.

October 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama Wednesday became the fourth US president to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. The other three are: -- Theodore Roosevelt (1906) "for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case" -- Woodrow Wilson (1919) as "founder of the League of Nations" -- Jimmy Carter (2002) "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" Roosevelt and Wilson won the honour while in office and Carter 21 years after demitting office in 1981.

October 9th, 2009 The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize citationOSLO, Norway — The complete text of the citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama as delivered by the Norwegian Nobel Committee: 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.

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", it was announced in Oslo Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama is the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", it was announced in Oslo Friday.

October 9th, 2009 GOP chairman scoffs at Obama winning Peace prizeWASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican Party is contending that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize as result of his "star power" rather than meaningful accomplishments. Michael Steele issued a statement Friday saying, "The real question Americans are asking is, What has President Obama actually accomplished?" Steele, who took over the reins of the party earlier this year, said he thought it was "unfortunate that the president's star power has outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights." He said he doesn't think Obama will be "receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action." (This version CORRECTS SUBS 3rd graf pvs to correct spelling of 'reins')

October 9th, 2009 Obama's daughters excited about dad's Nobel prizeWASHINGTON — Moments after President Barack Obama got the news about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, his excited daughters came to congratulate him. Eleven-year-old Malia and 8-year-old Sasha came to see their dad not long after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs telephoned Obama with the news, awakening him in the early morning hours.

October 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday congratulated US President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2009. "I have not heard the news, but if it is true, I would like to give my whole-hearted congratulations to President Obama," Manmohan Singh told reporters here.

October 9th, 2009 VIENNA - The head of the international nuclear test ban organisation, Tibor Toth, Friday said the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Barack Obama would strengthen the US president on his "arduous path" towards nuclear disarmament. Toth, the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) noted that Obama has declared his commitment to ratify the treaty.

October 9th, 2009 OSLO - United States President Barack Obama has been surprisingly given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 for his extraordinary efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and for taking landmark initiatives to create a nuclear-free world. Announcing the award here, an official of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said that Obama was yet to be informed about the award, and would receive the award on December 10 this year.