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Peace more important than Nobel Prize

Says Obama while receiving it

AFP, Oslo
US President Barack Obama yesterday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, paying tribute to activists who have taken on governments around the world while uncomfortably acknowledging his role as a leader at war.
Obama said he received the award with "great humility" and acknowledged the "controversy" saying that next to "some of the giants of history who have received this prize my accomplish -ments are slight ".
President Obama on Thursday admitted others may be more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize, but vowed to use tire honour to work for world security.
Obama, who has been president for less than 11 months, struck a humble note before receiving the award that puts him alongside the likes of Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King.
"I have no doubt there are others who may be more deserving," Obama said, underlining controversy surrounding the Nobel committee's decision while going on to defend his strategy to escalate the Afghan war.
Norway laid on a day of pageantry for Obama, including an investiture ceremony and a torchlight parade, protected by barricades, helicopters and up to 2,500 police in the country's most elab-oratesecurity operation.
Asked about claims he does not merit the award, Obama told a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg that he would use the prize to bolster Iris pro-engagement foreign policy, and to work for lasting world peace.
"The goal is not to win a popularity contest or to get an award, even one as prestigious as the Nobel peace prize. The goal has been to advance America's interests," hesaid.
"If I am successful in those tasks, then hopefully some of the criticism will subside, but that is not really my concern.
"If I am not successful, then all the praise and the awards in the world won't disguise that fact."
The Nobel committee shocked the world by naming Obama for the prize, but said he had nurtured a new era of engagement and multilateralism in US foreign policy that deserved to be recognised and encouraged.
Obama paid tribute to anti-government demonstrators in Iran, Myanamar and Zimbabwe
and said the United States would always stand on the side of those who sought freedom.
"We will bear witness to the quiet dignity of reformers like Aung Sang Suu Kyi; to the bravery of Zimbabweans who cast their ballots in the face of beatings; to the hundreds of thousands who have marched silently through the streets of Iran," Obama said.
"It is telling that the leaders of these governments fear the aspirations of their own people more than thepowerofany othernation.
"And it is the responsibility of all free people and free nations to make clear to these movements that hope and history are on their side."
Responding to the international controversy over the award, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, told the prize ceremony however "history can tell us a great deal about lost opportunities."
"It is now, today, th at we have the opportunity to support President Obama's ideas. Titis year's prize is indeed a call to action for all of us."
Obama is only the third sitting president to win tlte prize and he has been closely questioned about his credentials in Oslo, particularly after his decision to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan.
He has admitted the timing of the award is an awkward coincidence.
Before the ceremony, he said: "I have no doubt there are others who may be more deserving. ”
But he told a press conference he would use the prize to bolster his pro-engagement foreign policy, and to work for lasting world peace.
"The goal is not to win a popularity contest or to get an award, even one as prestigious as the Nobel peace prize. The goal has been to advance America's interests," hesaid.
"If I am successful in those tasks, then hopefully some of the criticism will subside, but that is not really my concern.
"If I am not successful, then all the praise and the awards in the world won't disguise that fact"
The Nobel committee praised Obama for nurturing a new era of engagement and multilateralism in US foreign policy when it made its shock announcement in October.
Obama's first stop after landing in Oslo at dawn was to sign the guest book at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
He marvelled at how the award of the 1964 Nobel peace prize had galvanized the civil rights fight of Martin Luther King, who he has said helped pave the way for him to become the first African American president