Nobel Laureate Urges Obama to Act on Mideast

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Source: NYT

OSLO — President-elect Barack Obama should move quickly to try to resolve conflicts in f the Middle East, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner said Wednesday after accepting a gold medal and $1.2 million in prize money.

“The credibility of the whole international community is at stake,” said Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland and a veteran United Nations mediator. “We cannot go on, year after year, simply pretending to do something to help the situation in the Middle East. We must also get results.”

He urged Mr. Obama to give the region high priority during his first year in office.

“The European Union, Russia and the U.N. must also be seriously committed so that a solution can be found to the crises stretching from Israel and Palestine to Iraq and Iran,” he said. “If we want to achieve lasting results, we must look at the whole region.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/world/middleeast/11nobel.html?ref=world

[GodlessBiker]

1. I urge President-Elect Obama to act in the Middle East, too. Now, where's my Nobel?

[jetphixer]

2. Problems

Everyone shows up telling us what we know "We have a problem in the middle east" This is not news The news is how do we fix the problem? I KNOW!!! Ask Mc Cane Remeber wen running 4 office He said "I know how to do that".. Glad he is on our side

[jody]

3. Middle East countries must solve their own problems. IMO the West is bankrupt literally and morally

and incapable of solving problems that have causes that trace back over millenniums.

[Javaman]

4. perhaps he will act quickly, WHEN HE'S PRESIDENT.

sigh.

[Bette Noir]

6. Exactly.

He's already a decade behind on his work, in a job he can't legally start for another five weeks.

Poor guy. I'd bake him a pie, but I don't think the Secret Service would let him eat it.

[margotb822]

5. Stating the obvious=Nobel Peace Prize?

This guy wins the "Duh" Award.