Uma atribuição surpreendente, por ser logo no primeiro ano de mandato. Obama torna-se o terceiro Presidente americano a vencer o Nobel em funções. Análise mais pormenorizada durante o dia de hoje:
«The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday that President Obama will receive the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
Citing Obama's "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy" and his support for nuclear arms reduction as chief reasons for the honor, the committee declared in a statement that the U.S. role in international affairs has changed substantially since the president took office.
Obama becomes the third American president to win the prize while serving in office, joining Theodore Roosevelt, who won for his work ending the Russo-Japanese War, and Woodrow Wilson, for his efforts to form the League of Nations. Obama's name had been floated as a possibility for this year's award, but he had not been viewed as a leading candidate. Most speculation had focused on Zimbabwe's reformist prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai; Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba, an advocate for peace in her country; Afghan women's rights activist Sima Samar and a small number of Chinese dissident leaders. Here's the full press release from the Nobel Committee:
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
"Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
"For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that 'Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.'"»
in POLITICO.COM
