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Admitting you were wrong comes as reckoning after dinner: Geir Lundestad, former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute voiced his regrets about the Nobel... 17.09.2015, Sputnik International

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Meddle to the Medal

17:34 GMT 17.09.2015 (Updated: 10:28 GMT 06.08.2022)

Admitting you were wrong comes as reckoning after dinner: Geir Lundestad, former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute voiced his regrets about the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama.

Lundestad's regrets can be easily understood: Obama’s legacy will definitely be controversial. Creating and instigating wars and havoc in the Middle East and damaging diplomatic relations are not qualities of a Peace Prize laureate.

"In his Nobel speech in 2009, Obama specifically addressed this issue. I mean how could he, who was indeed conducting two wars — in Afghanistan and Iraq — receive the Nobel Peace Prize? How could he justify this?" Lundestad told Sputnik.