Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by tw
Comments from the chairmen were representative of the committee.

At least one comittee member disagrees, and the chairman was either speaking for himself, or violating Comittee rules by taking part in public debates after the award is announced. .
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In remarks to reporters after the announcement, Mr. Berge said that Mr. Carter had been nominated for the peace prize "many, many times" but that a major reason that he was finally selected was that he represented a counterpoint to the militancy of President Bush....

Another member of the prize committee, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, challenged Mr. Berge's observations. "The way I see it, that was not the intention of the committee," she said in an interview with NRK radio...

Indeed, according to a statement on the Nobel Committee's Web site: "There must be no mention in the minutes of any Nobel Committee meetings of the contents of discussions relating to choices of candidates for the various awards, nor must any differences of opinion in committees be divulged in other ways. For that reason, committee members take no part in the public debates which follow the announcement of decisions."
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