Peace

Award ceremony speech

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…

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Press release

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…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Peace Prize, one of the six Nobel Prizes which are to be presented today, is primarily a homage and an expression of thanks to Oscar Arias Sánchez for the praiseworthy work he has done…

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