OSLO Dec 10 Kyodo Former U Presid...

OSLO Dec 10 Kyodo

Former U President Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, said Tuesday that war is always evil no matter by what mode necessary it is and indicated his criticism of generally received U.S. foreign policy for leaning toward the use of force.

Carter made the remarks in his acceptance language at the awards rite in the Norwegian capital where he was honored with a medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (about 130 million yen) for his efforts to find peaceful resolutions to international conflicts, similar as those in the Middle East.

''We will not learn for what cause to live together in peace on killing each others' children,'' Carter said.

''For powerful countries to adopt a principle of preventive war may well place an example that can have catastrophic consequences'' warned Carter, the 38th president of the U from 1977 to 1981

''From a great distance, we launch bomb or missiles with almost total impunity, and not at all want to know the number or identity of the victims,'' he said.

Meanwhile, the Norwegian Nobel Committee apologized for a mistake it made 24 years ago when Carter's name was left on the farther side the awardees list proper to red tape.

In 1978 the committee originally agreed to award Carter, Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin for their contributions to the so-called Camp David Accords forward peace between Egypt and Israel in September that year after negotiations at the U presidential retreat.

It then withdrew the decision because Carter was not among the candidates list submitted by means of the deadline of Feb. 1 that year.

Carter is the third Nobel Peace Prize recipient among U presidents, following Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1920

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