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Strip Obama of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: Evo Morales
22 Mar 2011 at 03:45hrs | Views
BOLIVIAN President Evo Morales demanded Monday that the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament deprive US President Barack Obama of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize after he ordered airstrikes on Libya.
The same sentiments were expressed by the leader of the Russian Liberal Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who said in a statement on Monday that he will ask the Nobel Committee to strip President Obama of the Nobel Peace Prize.
"How can it be that a Nobel Peace Prize laureate leads a group of gangs to attack and invade? That is not part of a defence of human rights or (respect) for the self-determination of peoples," President Morales told a press conference.
The Nobel committee surprised the world by giving the 2009 prize to President Obama, only a few months after his inauguration. The committee rewarded "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Morales - the first president of indigenous descent in Bolivia's history - was himself a candidate for the prize that year, for his work in favour of social justice and inclusion in Bolivia.
Morales slammed the UN Security Council for authorizing a military intervention in Libya. He asked that airstrikes on Libya end, and proposed a group of United Nations, Arab League And African Union officials to mediate a peaceful way out of the crisis in the North African country.
Russian Duma
Russian Duma leader, Zhirinovsky, said in the letter that the prize, awarded in 2009 for President Obama's historic presidential victory and his work on nuclear non-proliferation, was now hypocritical in light of recent missile strikes in Libya.
The US and some allies fired Tomahawk missiles into Libya On Sunday when Moammar Gadhafi failed to obide by his own cease-fire agreement, made with the UN Security Council early Friday.
"These developments in Libya are another outrageous act of aggression by NATO forces and, in particular, the United States," he wrote, calling it a "colonial policy" with the goal to control Libyan oil.
He plans to meet with Libyan Ambassador To Russia Amir al-Arabi on Wednesday to discuss the latest events in the North African country, the party posted on its website.
Zhirinovsky founded the nationalistic party as an anti-privatization party back in 1991.
Meanwhile, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has called US, Britain and France's bombardment of Libya, a "medieval call for crusades."
The same sentiments were expressed by the leader of the Russian Liberal Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who said in a statement on Monday that he will ask the Nobel Committee to strip President Obama of the Nobel Peace Prize.
"How can it be that a Nobel Peace Prize laureate leads a group of gangs to attack and invade? That is not part of a defence of human rights or (respect) for the self-determination of peoples," President Morales told a press conference.
The Nobel committee surprised the world by giving the 2009 prize to President Obama, only a few months after his inauguration. The committee rewarded "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Morales - the first president of indigenous descent in Bolivia's history - was himself a candidate for the prize that year, for his work in favour of social justice and inclusion in Bolivia.
Morales slammed the UN Security Council for authorizing a military intervention in Libya. He asked that airstrikes on Libya end, and proposed a group of United Nations, Arab League And African Union officials to mediate a peaceful way out of the crisis in the North African country.
Russian Duma
Russian Duma leader, Zhirinovsky, said in the letter that the prize, awarded in 2009 for President Obama's historic presidential victory and his work on nuclear non-proliferation, was now hypocritical in light of recent missile strikes in Libya.
The US and some allies fired Tomahawk missiles into Libya On Sunday when Moammar Gadhafi failed to obide by his own cease-fire agreement, made with the UN Security Council early Friday.
"These developments in Libya are another outrageous act of aggression by NATO forces and, in particular, the United States," he wrote, calling it a "colonial policy" with the goal to control Libyan oil.
He plans to meet with Libyan Ambassador To Russia Amir al-Arabi on Wednesday to discuss the latest events in the North African country, the party posted on its website.
Zhirinovsky founded the nationalistic party as an anti-privatization party back in 1991.
Meanwhile, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has called US, Britain and France's bombardment of Libya, a "medieval call for crusades."
Source - Byo24News
