In a few hours, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will award its famed Peace Prize.

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Criticism of its choice of winners is very unlikely to have any impact on the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, its prestigious award can only be collected by the laureate in person or by close family members.

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At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation.

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In its application of this criterion in recent decades, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has concentrated on the struggle to diminish the significance of nuclear arms in international politics, with a view to their abolition.

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Couple that with the words in the Norwegian Nobel Committee's citation that the peace prize is being awarded to Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples" and that they have "attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons, " and the message is clear.

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel peace prize for 2005 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.

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Mr. Obama can't be blamed for the excesses that saw him hailed as the new FDR, the new JFK or the new Lincoln, or for the Norwegian committee that bestowed upon him a Nobel.

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