Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of Alfred Nobel’s Peace Prize is this year awarded to Léon Jouhaux. Léon Jouhaux can look back upon a long life of work and struggle to elevate the working classes – and first of all to improve their conditions. To fight through the trade unions to raise the standard…

Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness, Chairman of the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. The year 1979 has not been a year of peace: disputes and conflicts between nations, peoples, and ideologies have been conducted…

Presentation Speech by Mr Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2003. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Peace Prize Laureate, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2003 to Shirin Ebadi for her efforts for democracy and…

Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1980 to Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. He has devoted many years of his life to the cause of human rights in Argentina and…

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…

Professor Francis Sejersted delivering his speech. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Professor Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 1998. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On Good Friday this year, an agreement was signed which has rightly been seen as a breakthrough…

Presentation Speech delivered by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1985, Oslo, December 10, 1985. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize gives us once again an opportunity to reconsider a well…

Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes, through the presentation of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, to direct attention to a unifying leader figure in the campaign to solve South Africa’s apartheid problem by peaceful means. The situation…

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Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Vice-Chairman of the , on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1976 in the University Festival Hall, Oslo, December 10, 1977. Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: On August 10, 1976, a remarkable incident occurred in one of the streets…