Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize

President of the United States, Barack Obama, this year's Nobel Peace Prize, announced in Oslo.

Nobel Committee in the award, said that President Obama has invested great efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among nations. The Committee believes that the vision of President Obama's very important as his work on creating a world without nuclear weapons.


This year's choice is in many ways a remarkable, because even received 205 nominations for the award, the BBC recalls. Among the favorites to win this prestigious award was the Prime Minister Zimbavea Morgan Cvangiraj.
Laureate receives a gold medal, a diploma and 1.4 million, carries the BBC.
"Rarely happens that a person gain so much attention to the world and provide hope for a better future", emphasized the message of the Committee for the award Nobelovih awards.

Obama honored for awards
United States President Barack Obama has awakened this morning to vešću won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs Obama called the phone shortly before six o'clock in the morning local time, and less than an hour after the news of the winner announced in Oslo:
"The president was very honored that he chose the committee," said Gibbs.
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said that they, like many people around the world, which surprised the President awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Axelrod said he assumes that Obama will go to Oslo to receive the award.
"This is all new for us, so we do not know what to do on this issue. I suppose that will go," said Axelrod.
Obama will be prizes awarded 10th December in Oslo. Obama is the fourth U.S. president who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - before they got him, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.

The leader of a new era
Democrat Barack Obama is the first American of African descent who was elected president. The function of the American president, was elected in the elections 2008th year. Born 4.avgusta 1961st year in Hawaii in a mixed marriage, the father of the Kenites and American mother, who divorced two years after his birth. The father, who returned to Kenya, died in 1982. in a car accident. Obama was an excellent student and student. He graduated in political science at Columbia University and then completed the prestigious Harvard Law, where he was the first tamnoputi chief editor of Harvard law review.
During his career, which began in Chicago, worked as a lawyer for the organization that helped poor black population, and then in firms that are defending the rights of citizens, ignoring in the meantime offer profitable large corporations. He taught constitutional law at the Law Faculty, University of Chicago. He was elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, and 2000th first, though unsuccessful, candidate for U.S. Congress.
After the terrorist attacks on the United States September 11 2000, Obama opposed the U.S. campaign, President George Bush for the war in Iraq and participated in anti-war rallies in Chicago.
The broader American public became known after a speech given at the invitation of then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004, emphasizing the need to overcome divisions in the democratic bloc. He became a senator in January 2005. Since 1992. The married former colleague, lawyer and Michelle have two daughters, Sasha and Mali.

Obama has not received a call from the Nobel Committee
Norwegian Nobel Committee we sent a telephone call to President Saddam inform him that he had received this year's Nobel Peace Prize, said of the committee Thorbjørn Jagland. "
Awakening President middle of the night is not something you should do, "said Jagland. The usual practice is that the laureate be informed about one hour before the declaration of winners in 9 hours Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and in 5 hours in Washington.
Jagland said that the five-member Commission also feared that the name of the winner could leak to the public before the official announcement in Oslo, which is earlier and going.