Nobel Peace Prize awarded to fighters with nuclear weapons

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign for the Destruction of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), stressing that the risk of a nuclear conflict was no longer as high as it is now.

"Voice of America" reports that the committee awarded the Geneva-based organization “for working to draw attention to the disastrous humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and efforts to achieve a ban on such weapons based on an appropriate agreement.”

ICAN calls itself a coalition of community organizations from more than 100 countries. The coalition originated in Australia, but was officially founded in Vienna in 2007.

“We live in a world where the risk of using nuclear weapons has not been so high for a long time,” said the leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen.

In July, the countries of the Nuclear Weapons Treaty, such as the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and France, did not take part in the negotiations on 122 countries.

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