NORWAY: KOFI ANNAN UN SECRETARY GENERAL RECEIVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE JOINTLY SHARED BY THE UNITED NATIONS
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NORWAY: KOFI ANNAN UN SECRETARY GENERAL RECEIVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE JOINTLY SHARED BY THE UNITED NATIONS
- Title: NORWAY: KOFI ANNAN UN SECRETARY GENERAL RECEIVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE JOINTLY SHARED BY THE UNITED NATIONS
- Date: 10th December 2001
- Summary: (W5) OSLO, NORWAY (DECEMBER 10, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. STOCKSHOT/EXTERIOR OF OSLO CITY HALL 0.06 2. SLV POLICE OUTSIDE BUILDING 0.10 3. WIDE TV CONFERENCE ROOM 0.15 4. HA-SV ANNAN'S WIFE (?) 0.20 5. MV FANFARE 0.28 6. HA KOFI ANNAN AND U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY CHAIRMAN SOUTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER HAN SEUNG-SOO WALKING IN 0.39 7. TV WIDE ROOM WITH PEOPLE APPLAUDING; MORE OF ANNAN AND HAN SEUNG-SOO; OFFICIALS 0.56 8. TV ZOOM OUT NORWEGIAN KING ARRIVES 1.19 9. SLV OFFICIALS ON STAGE; SV MUSICIANS; WIDE/SV MAN PLAYING VIOLA (4 SHOTS) 1.48 10. PAN ACROSS ROOM 2.14 11. SV NORWEGIAN KING LISTENING 2.19 12. (SOUNDBITE) (Norwegian) GUNNAR BERGER CHAIRMAN OF NOBEL COMMITTEE, SAYING: "Your majesty, royal highnesses, your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen and not least this year and last years peace prize laureates let me begin by extending warm welcome to this year's special peace prize award ceremony. The Nobel Peace Prize for 2001 is awarded to the United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan for their work for a better organised and more peaceful world."; PRESS 3.04 13. SCU ANNAN LISTENING 3.09 14. MV PEOPLE LISTENING; WIDE ROOM (2 SHOTS) 3.20 15. MV HAN SEUNG-SOO SHAKING HANDS WITH KOFI ANNAN/ HAN SEUNG-SOO AWARDED MEDAL AND DIPLOMA BY KING 3.38 16. MV ANNAN AWARDED MEDAL AND DIPLOMA 4.02 17. MV ANNAN AND HAN SEUNG-SOO PRESNTING MEDALS 4.08 18. PAN PEOPLE APPLAUDING, 4.19 19. (SOUNDBITE) (English) KOFI ANNAN, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL, SAYING: "In the 21st century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new more profound awareness of the sanctity and the dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. This will require us to look beyond the framework of state and beneath the surface of nations or communities. We must focus as never before on improving the conditions of individual men and women who give the state or nation its richness and character. We must begin with the young Afghan girl recognising that saving that one life is saving humanity itself." 5.30 20. WIDE/ZOOM OUT VIOLINISTS 5.47 21. TVs KING SHAKING HANDS WITH KOFI ANNAN/ HAN SEUNG-SOO BEING CONGRATULATED (2 SHOTS) 6.09 22. TV-SLV PRIZE WINNERS WITH NORWEGIAN ROYAL FAMILY 6.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: OSLO, NORWAY
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- Story Text: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has
received the centenary Nobel Peace Prize, jointly shared with
the U.N.
South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo, the President
of the 189-member U.N. General Assembly, collected the prize
on behalf of the U.N.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday
(December 10) the United Nations should focus more on the
plight of individuals in a quest to end poverty, prevent
conflicts and promote democracy.
Annan, who shares the 10 million Swedish crown (951,600
United States Dollars) Nobel Peace prize with the United
Nations, said the world body should be guided in the 21st
century by the idea that to save one life was "to save
humanity itself".
Annan collected the prize -- a gold medal and a diploma --
at a glittering ceremony in Oslo's City Hall, guarded by
hundreds of armed police after the September 11 attacks on the
United States.
South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo, the President
of the 189-member U.N. General Assembly, collected the prize
on behalf of the United Nations, founded in 1945 and which now
counts more than 50,000 employees.
Annan, a 63-year-old Ghanaian, said the United Nations
needed a deeper awareness of the "sanctity and dignity of
every human life, regardless of race or religion".
"We must focus as never before on improving the conditions
of individual men and women who give the state or nation its
richness and character," said Annan.
The award marks 100 years since the first prize went to
Henri Dunant, the Swiss founder of the Red Cross, and French
peace campaigner Frederic Passy. The prize is named after
Sweden's Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
Annan, a career U.N. official elected the world's top
diplomat in 1997, gave the example of an Afghan baby child
born today into poverty and who would be fed and comforted by
her mother, just like other newborns around the globe.
"We must begin with the young Afghan girl, recognising
that saving that one life is to save humanity itself," he
said.
The secretive Nobel committee said the prize, the latest
in more than a dozen linked to the United Nations, rewarded
work for a "better organised and more peaceful world".
It praised Annan for bringing "new life" to efforts to
combat everything from poverty to AIDS.
Many past laureates attended the prize ceremony, including
former Polish President Lech Walesa, South African
anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu and Guatemalan Indian
rights campaigner Rigoberta Menchu.
Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja sat in the first row.
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres, who won the 1994 prize with
assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, stayed away
amid violence that has wrecked their once-historic peace plan.
He told the audience the United Nations had been founded
on the ashes of World War Two but that horrors had not ended,
citing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda or the war in Bosnia.
Survivors of massacres in Rwanda and Bosnia were among the
few who criticised the decision to give Annan the prize -- he
had been head of U.N. peacekeeping at the time.
Separately, at least 16 of the former laureates who had
been meeting in Oslo in recent days called for disarmament and
non-violent pursuit of peace in the 21st century in a joint
appeal on Monday.
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