Former US President Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Former US President Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize

Former US President Jimmy Carter was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his "untiring" peace efforts around the world, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

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Former US President Jimmy Carter was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his "untiring" peace efforts around the world, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

Carter was cited for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development," the committee said in a statement.

In reaction to the news, Carter told CNN early on Friday that he was "glad and honored by this."

"In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power,Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights, and economic development," the prize-awarding institution said.

"During his presidency (1977-1981), Carter's mediation was a vital contribution to the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, in itself a great enough achievement to qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize," it said.

"Through his Carter Center, founded 20 years ago, Carter has since his presidency undertaken very extensive and persevering conflict resolution on several continents," it added.

Carter gains a prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (some 1.07 million US dollars).

The formal prize award ceremony will be held at the Norwegian capital's City Hall on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the prize's creator, Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.

The other Nobel Prizes -- medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, and economics -- will be awarded in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

Last yea the peace award was won by the United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."

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