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A record 199 candidates have been
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A record 199 candidates have been nominated for
the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize including Ukraine's President Viktor
Yushchenko, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the ailing Pope.
This tops the previous record of 194 set last year, when the $1.45
million prize went to Kenyan green activist Wangari Maathai.
"Nominations have come from all around the world and with a broad scope
of interest," Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute,
told reporters Thursday.
Each year the prize is handed out at a ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10, the
date on which Alfred Nobel, who founded the prize, died in 1896.
The awards committee never reveals any of the candidates but names are
sometimes leaked by those eligible to make nominations including members
of parliament, Nobel laureates
and academics.
This year's list includes 36 organizations such as the International
Atomic Energy Agency, in the 60th anniversary year of the atomic bombing
of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
Also on this year's list are Indian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar, Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu and Irish
rock star Bono.
Lundestad said people in the United States, Germany, Sweden and Norway
were the most frequent nominators and the committee members had added a
"significant number" to the list this week, at their first meeting of the
year.
Some Nobel watchers believe the 2005 award will go to someone involved
with relief efforts after the Dec. 26 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
The nomination procedure allows a wide range of people to be put
forward for the prize. Previous candidates included Nazi leader Adolf
Hitler and former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
(Agencies) |
共有199位候選人獲得2005年諾貝爾和平獎提名，人數之眾前所未有，其中包括烏克蘭總統維克托·尤先科，美國前國務卿科林·鮑威爾和臥病在床的羅馬教皇。
此次參與角逐諾貝爾和平獎的人數打破了去年194人的記錄，去年，肯尼亞環境保護者旺加里·馬塔伊最終捧走了145萬美元的大獎。
“今年的提名來自世界各地，涉及的領域也很廣。”挪威諾貝爾委員會理事杰爾·朗德斯泰德本周四（2月24日）對記者說。
每年的12月10日，這一獎項都會在挪威首都奧斯陸舉行的頒獎典禮上頒發。1896年12月10日，諾貝爾獎創始人阿爾佛雷德·諾貝爾與世長辭。
評獎委員會從未透露過任何關于獲得提名的候選人的信息，但有時他們的名字會從有資格提名候選人的機構或個人處“走露風聲”，比如國會議員、往屆諾貝爾獎獲得者和學術界人士。
今年的名單包括36個組織，比如國際原子能機構，今年正是二戰中日本廣島和長崎遭原子彈轟炸60周年紀念。
今年榜上有名的還有印度精神領袖珊卡·斯力·斯力·拉唯大師，以色列核泄密者莫迪凱·瓦努努和愛爾蘭搖滾明星波諾。
朗德斯泰德說，美國、德國、瑞典和挪威是提名最為積極的幾個國家。在今年的第一次會議上，委員會成員們在候選人名單上又增加了“一大批”候選人。
一些關注諾貝爾獎的專家認為，2005年的諾貝爾獎將授予為12月26日印度洋海嘯后的賑災活動做出貢獻的人。
提名程序允許不同領域的很多人士沖擊諾貝爾獎，以前的候選人還包括納粹領導人阿道夫·希特勒和南斯拉夫聯盟前總統斯洛伯丹·米洛舍維奇。
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2005-02-28 09:58