The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize named the Nuclear Weapons Elimination Campaign

At exactly 4 pm on October 6, Vietnam, the Nobel Committee announced the owner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Accordingly, this prestigious award belongs to the International Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ( ICAN).

During a press conference in Oslo, Norway, which took place at 11:00 local time (4 pm Vietnam time), the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Mrs. Berit Reiss-Andersen, announced the owner of The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize is the International Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

ICAN is an alliance of non-governmental organizations from about 100 countries around the world.

Ms. Berit Reiss-Andersen said ICAN has been a leading civil society campaign in an effort to ban the proliferation of nuclear weapons according to international law.

Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ms Berit Reiss-Andersen, announced the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo: Reuters).

'In the past year, ICAN has blasted efforts to promote a world without nuclear weapons with a new direction and power,' said the Nobel Committee's statement.

Last year, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize for his great efforts to end the civil war that spanned more than 50 years in the country.

Nobel Peace Prize is the 5th Nobel Prize of 6 published in this season, after the Nobel Prize for Physics, Medicine, Chemistry and Literature published from 2-5 / 10. The final Nobel Prize of this season - Nobel Economics - will be announced on October 9.

Nobel Prizes are founded by Alfred Nobel, an entrepreneur and Swedish inventor. The first Nobel Prize was awarded for the first time in 1901, five years after Nobel's death.

Initially, the award only had 5 categories including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace. By 1968, the Swedish Bank added a prize in the field of economics.

According to the wishes of the Nobel, the Nobel Peace Prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee set up by the Norwegian Parliament. Meanwhile, other Nobel prizes were awarded in Sweden and decided by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded annually on December 10, the day of Alfred Nobel's death, in the Norwegian capital Oslo, while other prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.

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