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Friday, 5 April, 2002, 11:58 GMT 12:58 UK
Nobel's regrets on Peres award
Fellow Nobel laureates: Rabin, Arafat and Peres
Members of the Norwegian committee that awards the annual Nobel Peace Prize
have launched an unprecedented verbal assault on Israeli Foreign Minister and
Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres.
Mr Peres accepted the peace prize jointly with the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
and Israel's late prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, in 1994.
Yes, I wish it was possible that we could recall the prize
Nobel committee member Hanna Kvanmo
In an interview with a Norwegian newspaper, committee members said they
regretted that Mr Peres' prize could not be recalled because, as a member of the
Israeli cabinet, he had not acted to prevent Israel's re- occupation of Palestinian
territory.
One member said Mr Peres had not lived up to the ideals he expressed when he
accepted the prize.
"What is happening today in Palestine is grotesque and unbelievable," said Hanna
Kvanmo.
"Peres is responsible, as part of the government. He has expressed his agreement
with what [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon is doing," she said.
If Arafat were killed by Israel, Peres could "share in the blame"
"If he had not agreed with Sharon, then he would have withdrawn from the
government."
Oslo Bishop Gunnar Stalsett, a committee member for the past eight years,
describes as "absurd" what he sees as the involvement of a Nobel laureate in human
rights abuses.
Other committee members argue that the Israeli government's actions in general and
Mr Peres' involvement in particular are threatening to bring the prize into disrepute.
Ms Kvanmo said however that "at the time, it was a correct decision" to honour
Peres.
"He was the one of the three that really deserved the prize, because he took the
initiative to the talks that led to the Oslo accords," she said.
Committee chairman Geir Lundestad voiced the concern of several members that if
Mr Arafat were to be killed as a result of Israeli actions, one Nobel laureate might in
effect be said to have killed the other.
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