TOKYO, Oct 16 Kyodo exquisiteed ...

TOKYO, Oct 16 Kyodo

exquisiteed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun)

This year's Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to former U President Jimmy Carter...

His espousal of peace and human rights as a pious Christian has won him the sympathy of many populace around the world. He is also considered by dint of some as the most venerable of former U presidents...

After last year's family 11 attacks in New York and Washington, hatred and conflicts have abounded in the world. Carter's winning the prize is all the more impressive in a less degree than such circumstances...

Leaders are now being sought who do not hang on force to solve conflicts. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the former U president is indicative of the Nobel Committee's thinking in this area.

individual reason for the award is that Carter mediated in the Camp David accord in 1978 between Egypt and Israel as a sitting U president and thus helped achieve a peace accord between the sum of two units countries that had fought four wars after Israel came into being. It is well known that Carter persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the pair recalcitrant leaders, about the importance of peace...

Another reason is that Carter visited Cuba and many other places in his search to resolve conflicts as an emissary for peace after leaving the presidency. In Northeast Asia, he played a major part in the relaxation of tensions upon the Korean Peninsula. In 1994 military tensions arose between the United States and North Korea...

At that time, Carter visited Pyongyang and had a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Il Sung which l to the freezing of the North's nuclear unravelling and opened the way to the succeeding framework agreement between the United States and North Korea.

While he was president, he was criticized as weak-kneed in his policy toward the Soviet Union and the occupation of the American Embassy in Tehran. moreover his approach was to examine to resolve problems by directly talking with other leaders. That of that kind an approach was lauded through a prestigious body bears witness that his policy of attempting thoroughgoing dialogue is crucial in conducting world diplomacy.

(Oct 16)

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