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Nobel Peace Prize for Annan, UN
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan speaks during a
Press conference at the United Nations in New York on Friday after it was announced that Annan and the
UN had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. — Reuters photo
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Oslo, October 12
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the UN jointly won the centenary Nobel Peace Prize in honour of their work promoting global harmony, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced here today. “For 100 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to strengthen organised cooperation between states. The end of the Cold War has at last made it possible for the UN to perform more fully the part it was originally intended to play,” the committee said in its citation. “Today the organisation is at the forefront of efforts to achieve peace and security in the world and of the international mobilisation aimed at meeting the world’s economic, social and environmental challenges,” it said. Noting that Mr Annan had devoted most of his working life to the UN, it said as Secretary-General he had been “preeminently bringing new life to the organisation”.
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