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Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1375532002
TIM CORNWELL DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR
THE Nobel Peace Prize-winner Jimmy Carter yesterday spoke out against war fought with bombs and missiles, where "we never want to know the number or identity of the victims".
As he accepted the peace prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, the former president of the US issued a pointed reminder to his own country about the real cost of war fought at a distance.
The world "insists" that Iraq must comply fully with UN demands to eliminate its weapons programmes, he said.
But Mr Carter continued: "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children."
By some counts, Mr Carter’s award came 24 years late. He was first touted to share the prize in 1978 with the Israeli prime minister Menachim Begin and the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat for his role in closing the Camp David peace accords. But his name went in too late, officials say.
After being nominated many times, he finally received the award yesterday, at a ceremony that began with a welcome from 2,000 Norwegian children and ended with peanut cake.
The Nobel speech from the former peanut farmer, preacher and Georgia governor took the pious tone that has seen Mr Carter, 78, both admired and despised. It recalled his days as a young boy reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace and as a submarine officer.
"I worship Jesus Christ whom we Christians consider to be the prince of peace," he said, but asked Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and others to embrace each other.
Mr Carter said the world’s most serious problem was the "growing chasm between the richest and the poorest people".
The former Cold War president noted that there is now only one superpower, the US, with military spending larger than the next 15 countries combined, and an economy three times the size of its nearest competitor. The US was right never to assume that "super strength guarantees super wisdom", he said.
But in an oblique warning to George Bush, he said: "Global challenges must be met by an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus."
Mr Carter won the prize for his work in the Middle East and later with his Carter Peace Centre in Georgia, observing elections and funding aid projects worldwide. He received the gold Nobel medal, watched by his wife, Rosalynn, their children and grandchildren, and the Norwegian king, Harald V.
At a separate ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, the Hungarian Jewish author Imre Keresz, a Holocaust survivor, received the Nobel prize for literature for his novels describing life in the Nazi concentration camps.
Eleven scientists shared the prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics. Britons Sydney Brenner and John Sulston shared the medicine prize with Robert Horvitz of the US for research into organ growth and cell death, paving the way for treatments for cancer and strokes.
Tribute to previous winner
JIMMY Carter yesterday paid tribute to another native of his home state, Georgia, who won the peace prize in 1964: Martin Luther King.
Assassinated in 1968, Mr King was "the greatest leader that my native state has ever produced," Mr Carter said. It was unlikely that a former Georgia governor would have gone to the White House without the changes wrought by the civil rights movement in the American south, Mr Carter said.
The 2001 winner of the Nobel peace prize was the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan. In 2000 it was won by the South Korean president, Kim Dae-jung.
Previous solo winners of the prize include the former Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Dalai Lama .
Past joint winners include the Northern Ireland political leaders John Hume and David Trimble; the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat; and in 1993 then African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela and South African president FW de Klerk.
This article:
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1375532002
More War with Iraq?:
http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=518
Websites:
Dossiers on Iraqi WMD & human rights abuses
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1032455026312
FCO - Policy towards Iraq
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394374
FCO site - Britain, UNSCOM & Iraq
http://special.fco.gov.uk/
UN - Office of the Iraq Programme
http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/
US Dept of State - Iraq Update
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/
Iraqi Presidency
http://www.uruklink.net/iraq/
Iraq Watch
http://www.iraqwatch.org
John Pilger on Iraq
http://pilger.carlton.com/iraq
TIM CORNWELL DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR
THE Nobel Peace Prize-winner Jimmy Carter yesterday spoke out against war fought with bombs and missiles, where "we never want to know the number or identity of the victims".
As he accepted the peace prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, the former president of the US issued a pointed reminder to his own country about the real cost of war fought at a distance.
The world "insists" that Iraq must comply fully with UN demands to eliminate its weapons programmes, he said.
But Mr Carter continued: "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children."
By some counts, Mr Carter’s award came 24 years late. He was first touted to share the prize in 1978 with the Israeli prime minister Menachim Begin and the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat for his role in closing the Camp David peace accords. But his name went in too late, officials say.
After being nominated many times, he finally received the award yesterday, at a ceremony that began with a welcome from 2,000 Norwegian children and ended with peanut cake.
The Nobel speech from the former peanut farmer, preacher and Georgia governor took the pious tone that has seen Mr Carter, 78, both admired and despised. It recalled his days as a young boy reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace and as a submarine officer.
"I worship Jesus Christ whom we Christians consider to be the prince of peace," he said, but asked Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and others to embrace each other.
Mr Carter said the world’s most serious problem was the "growing chasm between the richest and the poorest people".
The former Cold War president noted that there is now only one superpower, the US, with military spending larger than the next 15 countries combined, and an economy three times the size of its nearest competitor. The US was right never to assume that "super strength guarantees super wisdom", he said.
But in an oblique warning to George Bush, he said: "Global challenges must be met by an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus."
Mr Carter won the prize for his work in the Middle East and later with his Carter Peace Centre in Georgia, observing elections and funding aid projects worldwide. He received the gold Nobel medal, watched by his wife, Rosalynn, their children and grandchildren, and the Norwegian king, Harald V.
At a separate ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, the Hungarian Jewish author Imre Keresz, a Holocaust survivor, received the Nobel prize for literature for his novels describing life in the Nazi concentration camps.
Eleven scientists shared the prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics. Britons Sydney Brenner and John Sulston shared the medicine prize with Robert Horvitz of the US for research into organ growth and cell death, paving the way for treatments for cancer and strokes.
Tribute to previous winner
JIMMY Carter yesterday paid tribute to another native of his home state, Georgia, who won the peace prize in 1964: Martin Luther King.
Assassinated in 1968, Mr King was "the greatest leader that my native state has ever produced," Mr Carter said. It was unlikely that a former Georgia governor would have gone to the White House without the changes wrought by the civil rights movement in the American south, Mr Carter said.
The 2001 winner of the Nobel peace prize was the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan. In 2000 it was won by the South Korean president, Kim Dae-jung.
Previous solo winners of the prize include the former Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Dalai Lama .
Past joint winners include the Northern Ireland political leaders John Hume and David Trimble; the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat; and in 1993 then African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela and South African president FW de Klerk.
This article:
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1375532002
More War with Iraq?:
http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=518
Websites:
Dossiers on Iraqi WMD & human rights abuses
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1032455026312
FCO - Policy towards Iraq
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394374
FCO site - Britain, UNSCOM & Iraq
http://special.fco.gov.uk/
UN - Office of the Iraq Programme
http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/
US Dept of State - Iraq Update
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/
Iraqi Presidency
http://www.uruklink.net/iraq/
Iraq Watch
http://www.iraqwatch.org
John Pilger on Iraq
http://pilger.carlton.com/iraq