Obama raised with Nobel

October 10th, 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama is with the news of his award with the Nobel Peace Prize has been raised to a little before six clock (12 clock BST). He has responded with a brief word.

The White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, Obama called on Friday. A reaction had surprised the White House but not at first: it was entirely from the decision.

Obama has received after the award is not as usual, a call of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It would not have heard the President to wake in the middle of the night, “said the chairman of the committee Thorbjorn Jagland. In addition, the committee was concerned that the name might leak out as the winner even before the official announcement.

U.S. President Barack Obama had received the Nobel Peace Prize in a first reaction with joy: “The president felt humble to have been selected by the Nobel Committee to,” said Gibbs.

Jubilation in Kenya

As reported by the television network CBS, had approached the government spokesman initially only in an e-mail to the sender – this only consisted of one word: “WOW.” The TV channel CNN said: “And while Obama was” not even on the favorites list.

The Kenyan branch of the family of Barack Obama commented with pride about the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to their relatives. “We are very proud to receive this award for Barack,” Said Obama said his Halbonkel from the western Kenyan Kogelo lives. “This is a great honor.”

The Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said, “in his congratulatory letter to Obama from a” milestone. The Nobel Peace Prize Obama will assessed contribution for a better state of mankind.

‘Taliban find it unfair’

Far more sober expressed the Nobel laureate and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei: “I can think of no one who deserves this honor more,” ElBaradei cited the IAEA in Vienna. In less than a year in office had Obama done it, “the hope for a world that is at peace with itself revived permit.”

Neither did the U.S. president show leadership style with an outstanding view of a nuclear weapons-free world. ElBaradei praised Obama’s “unshakable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue” as the best way to resolve conflict.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the Nobel committee had made the “correct” choice. Obama’s new vision for the global relations, and his will to establish friendly relations on the world level and global peace, made him a reasonable recipient of the award.

The fundamentalist Taliban, however, criticized the choice of the Nobel Committee unjust “as.” Obama has “in Afghanistan made a single step towards peace,” said a spokesman for the AFP news agency. “We have seen no change in its peace strategy.”