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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (19068)	10/11/2002 9:35:36 PM
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Ex-president Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize The award for former American president is also a direct criticism of the Bush administration's policy on Iraq, says the Nobel committee OSLO - Former US president Jimmy Carter yesterday won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for years of tireless effort as an international mediator, an honour the Nobel committee said also contained a direct criticism of the current US administration's policy on Iraq. Related websites: • The Carter Center • Jimmy Carter Library and Museum Mr Carter, 78, was honoured for 'his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. However, this year's award also 'can and must be interpreted as a criticism of the position of the administration currently sitting in the US towards Iraq', Nobel committee chairman Gunnar Berge said. The remarks came just hours after the US Congress gave President George W. Bush authority to go to war against Iraq. It was also a signal 'to all the other countries which have adopted the same position' as the US, Mr Berge added. 'In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power, Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights, and economic development,' the committee said in its citation. Mr Carter, who started out as a peanut farmer in Georgia and is the third US president to win the Peace Prize, said he was 'grateful and honoured'. The award is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (S$1.9 million). But asked for his comments on the current White House policy on Iraq, the former president was reserved. 'I don't want to comment specifically on President George W. Bush's policies, but I do think that in every way before we go into a war of any kind we should exhaust all other alternatives including negotiation, mediation or, if that's not possible in the case of Iraq, working through the United Nations.' On the United Nations' chances of ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and on whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein should be overthrown or not, Mr Carter was more than circumspect. 'I think this morning I don't want to comment on that,' he answered to both questions. Among the first to congratulate him was Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who was among a record 156 nominees for this year's prize. Mr Carter's peacemaking efforts have taken him all around the world from Pyongyang to Haiti to Sudan. Despite being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for several years, he made it understood that the only time he regretted not winning the award was when he negotiated the 1979 Camp David accords. --AFP, AP