Obama Nobel Peace Prize

Your majesties your royal highnesses distinguished members of the norwegian nobel committee citizens of america and citizens of the world.

Obama nobel peace prize. President barack obama won the 2009 nobel peace prize on friday for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples the norwegian nobel committee. Looking at the present trump actually deserves one. The nobel committee recognized this truth in awarding its first prize for peace to henry dunant the founder of the red cross and a driving force behind the geneva conventions. Scroll to the bottom for video.

Here is more on the honor that the former commander in chief received in 2009. Geir lundestad told the ap news agency that the. The norwegian nobel committee announced the award on october 9 2009 citing obama s promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a new climate in international relations fostered by obama especially in reaching out to the muslim world. 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.

Among the reasons it gave the nobel committee lauded obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. Below is obama s nobel peace prize acceptance speech a just and lasting peace as prepared for delivery. The 2009 nobel peace prize was awarded to united states president barack obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people. President barack obama s first act as a nobel peace prize winner in 2009 nine months after he took the oath of office was to try to wriggle out of accepting it.

4 president obama is. Obama the 44th president of the united states had been in power for less than eight months when he was awarded the nobel peace prize for 2009. The committee has attached special importance to obama s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Barack obama was awarded the nobel peace prize nine months into his first term as president.