Nobel Prize

  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of , Oslo, December 10, 2001. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, and, not least, this year’s and past year’s Peace Prize Laureates. Let me begin by extending a warm welcome to this year’s special Peace Prize award ceremony. The…

Welcome by Jorgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the on January 15, 1905 I have the honor to extend to you a warm welcome. That you have come here, despite your age and despite the long journey in an inclement season of the year, is proof to us of the untiring energy you have for so…

Welcome by Johannes Irgens, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, on August 24, 1912 In the name of the Norwegian government and of His Sovereign Majesty, who honors this official opening session with his presence, I have the pleasure of extending to the Institute of International Law a cordial welcome to the capital of Norway. I…

Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the The Nobel Peace Prize is one of six awards bearing the name Alfred Nobel that are presented today. Five of these awards are made in Stockholm, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the laureates who will be honoured in the…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2005. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the International Atomic…

Presentation Speech by Professor Francis Sejersted of the , Oslo, December 10, 1999. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. Few aims can be more praiseworthy than to combat suffering: to help those in the most desperate situations, whatever their race and wherever they may be, to return…

Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1996, Oslo, December 10, 1996 Translation of the Norwegian text Your Majesties, Presidents, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, may I extend to everyone a warm welcome to this…

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