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...Nobel committee is a cloistered, enigmatic operation, as hard to read as the Soviet Politburo. While its website - the only source of information the organization provides to outsiders - broadly explains the nominating and selection process, it does little to illuminate inscrutable details like what criteria defines the eventual winner, and just who weighs in on the choice. Identities of non-winning candidates - and those who submitted their names, as well as the winner - remain secret for 50 years. (See pictures of President Obama's first eight months of diplomacy...
...Martti Ahtisaari, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner "We do not yet have a peace in the Middle East ... this time it was very clear that they wanted to encourage Obama to move on these issues. This is a clear encouragement to do something on this issue. I wish him good luck...
...Obama is the Nobel Peace Prize winner. "Frankly, it seems premature when he hasn't been in office even a year yet and has not yet actually achieved the goals he set out - although he certainly has made some very noteworthy efforts," says Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for nonproliferation at the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies. "I think he will be embarrassed by it, and it will be unhelpful in the domestic milieu...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader and 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner "I am happy. What Obama did during his presidency is a big signal - he gave hope. In these hard times, people who are capable of taking responsibility, who have a vision, commitment and political will, should be supported...
...Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and 2005 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize "I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honor ... President Obama has provided outstanding leadership on moving towards a world free of nuclear weapons...