President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has officially awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama.

According to the committee's assessment, Mr. Obama won the prize for ' great efforts in promoting international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples '.

This year's Nobel Peace Prize reached a record when 205 candidates (including President Obama and President Sarkozy of France). The winner is chosen by five committee members. The reward includes a medal, a certificate and a prize worth $ 1.4 million.

" Obama draws the attention of the world and gives people hope for a better future ," the Norwegian Nobel committee representative said while announcing the award.

US President Barack Obama (Photo: Telegraph)

"His foreign policy is built on the notion that the world leader must work on the values ​​and perspectives shared by most of the world population ," the Nobel Peace Committee stressed. .

According to the committee's assessment, the US president accepted this year's award as an attempt to reach farther away from the Muslim world and curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

The decision to choose Mr. Obama among the hundreds of Nobel Peace Prize candidates has surprised observers because the US president has been in office for less than two weeks before the deadline to list candidates on February 1.

The name Obama was mentioned in the winners' predictions, but many Nobel observers believe that it is too early to award the US President. "There are very few influential figures like Mr. Obama," the committee said, affirming that they were attracted by Obama's particularly important vision and by an effort for a world. no nuclear weapons.

" Obama is the president who creates a new environment for international politics. Multilateral diplomacy returns to the central position, with the importance of the UN and other international organizations expressed ," the committee said. know.

Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson received the award in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002 while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 award with the Intergovernmental Commission on global climate change of the United Nations.

In the will of 1895, Alfred Nobel aspired, the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded "to people who have made a great contribution in promoting solidarity among nations, in eliminating or limiting forces. armed and in organizing or promoting peace conferences ".

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the first five awards groups of the Nobel Prize. While most other Nobel prizes are awarded in Sweden and decided by a Swedish committee, the person or organization awarded the Nobel Peace Prize will be decided by the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee by the National Assembly. Norway established.

Last year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Finnish mediator, former president Martti Ahtisaari.