'Norwegian Nobel Committee has its own ways, but the nuclear agreement with Iran achieved something real and would have deserved a prize,' Bildt said in his Twitter message.
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was granted to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), it was reported on Friday.
It was earlier reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Federica Mogherini the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy have big chance of winning the Nobel Prize for their role in Iran nuclear deal.
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural or scientific advances.
The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.
The 2017 Nobel Prize winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is a global civil society coalition working to promote adherence to and full implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The campaign helped bring about this treaty. The ICAN was launched in 2007 and counts 468 partner organizations in 101 countries as of 2017.
ICAN has been active in abolishing nuclear weapons for one decade and this it was one of the main supporters of Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) which was signed by 122 countries.
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Publish Date: 6 October 2017 - 18:52
Tehran, Oct 6, IRNA – Iran nuclear deal known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deserved Nobel Prize, Former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt said in a message on Friday.