December
14, 2007
OSLO, Norway,-- Dr Dindar Zebari, the 'Iraqi'
Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Coordinator to
the United Nations, on Monday attended the 2007
Nobel Prize ceremony on behalf of KRG Prime Minister
Nechirvan Barzani. He congratulated former US Vice
President Al Gore, a joint winner of this years’
Peace Prize, for his campaign to save the
environment.
Dr Zebari said, “I conveyed Prime Minister Barzani’s
best wishes to Mr Gore. We have not forgotten his
support for the people of Kurdistan in the 1990s,
when as US Vice President he helped to protect us
from Saddam’s soldiers by establishing the safe
haven.”
Former Vice President Gore also supported the Kurds
when, as a congressman in 1988, he cosponsored the
Prevention of Genocide Act to stop Saddam’s genocide
and gassing of the Kurds.www.ekurd.net
The Act would have cut
all US assistance to Iraq, but was defeated in
congress. Dr Zebari told Mr Gore that the Kurdish
people and government would never forget his support
for their
plight at that time, and invited him to visit the
peaceful and stable Kurdistan Region.
Mr Gore shares this year’s peace prize with the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Mr
RK Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, received the
award on behalf of the panel. The Norwegian Nobel
Committee awarded it to them “For their efforts to
build up and disseminate greater knowledge about
man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations
for the measures that are needed to counteract such
change”.
The famous environmental campaigner said, “Without
realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the Earth
itself.” He added, “Now, we and the Earth's climate
are locked in a relationship familiar to war
planners: 'Mutually assured destruction.' It is time
to make peace with the planet.” |
Dr Dindar Zebari, the Kurdistan Regional
Government’s (KRG) Coordinator to the United Nations
Al Gore receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize |
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