The United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan have
been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work for a better
organized and more peaceful world”.The United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan were chosen
to receive the prize “for their work for a better organized and more
peaceful world”. The Norwegian Nobel Committee further said: “Today
the organization is at the forefront of efforts to achieve peace and
security in the world and of the international mobilization aimed at
meeting the world’s economic, social and environmental challenges”.
The Committee "wishes to both honor the work that the UN and its
Secretary-General Kofi Annan have already done, and to encourage