Nobel Prize Director Admits Obama Award a Mistake
- 9 years ago
The former Director of the Nobel Institute for 25 years wrote in a memoir released Wednesday that the decision in 2009 to give then newly elected US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize and over $1 million was a mistake.
In his memoir "Secretary of Peace: 25 Years with the Nobel Prize," Geir Lundestad wrote that the idea behind the unanimous decision of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee to give Obama the prize was to encourage him to achieve his goals, according to Norway's The Local .
It appears the current Nobel committee may be poised to make a similarly questionable move, after US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in July were recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the Iran nuclear deal.
In his memoir "Secretary of Peace: 25 Years with the Nobel Prize," Geir Lundestad wrote that the idea behind the unanimous decision of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee to give Obama the prize was to encourage him to achieve his goals, according to Norway's The Local .
It appears the current Nobel committee may be poised to make a similarly questionable move, after US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in July were recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the Iran nuclear deal.