Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is today exactly 50 years since the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the German public figure and pacifist, . That particular award was one of the most controversial ever made. The newly established Nazi…

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Seán MacBride was born on January 26, 1904 in Paris. He took an active part in the movement for Irish independence and suffered imprisonment on several occasions. 1947-1958 Member of Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament). 1948-1951 Minister for External Affairs for Ireland in Inter-Party Government. In 1954 was offered but declined, Ministerial Office in Irish Government.…

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Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the , Norwegian Storting Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: A few years before he drew up his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel observed in a letter to that his dynamite factories would be able to bring wars to an end a…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma) for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma’s liberation leader Aung San and showed an early interest in Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent protest. After having long refrained…