Fri 6 Nov 2009
Obama’s Nobel Challenge
Posted by Mary under HRW, New York
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Right-wing bloggers blazed at the audible gasp that went up from the crowd when the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced (first in Norwegian, then English) that it had awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama. In its press statement, the Committee described Obama as heralding a “new climate in international politics” in which “multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position” with emphasis on “dialogue and negotiations” and the role played by the United Nations and other international institutions (tho not civil society). (more…)
