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Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States, was on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 'his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development', the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Carter will receive a prize sum of 10 million kroner [1.10 million euros, or 1.07 million dollars].
Carter will receive the award at a ceremony at Oslo's City Hall on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the prize's creator, Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
The Peace Prize is the only one of the Nobel Prizes to be announced and awarded in Oslo, with those for literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics all announced in Stockholm.
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