Members of the Nobel committee today defended their choice of Barack Obama as Nobel Peace Prize winner. Speaking to AP, the committee’s chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland said that “We simply disagree that he has done nothing. He got the prize for what he has done.” AP reports that Jagland singled out Obama’s efforts to heal the divide between the West and the Muslim world and scale down a Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in Europe. “All these things have contributed to — I wouldn’t say a safer world — but a world with less tension”.
He also told AP that giving the award to Obama followed the guidelines set forth by Alfred Nobel who established the Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will.
“Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year. Who has done more for that than Barack Obama?”

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