(11 Oct 2024)
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Geneva, Switzerland – 11 October 2024
1.++STARTS ON SOUNDBITE++
SOUNDBITE (English) Beatrice Fihn, former ICAN executive director:
“I’m so so happy for them (Nihon Hidankyo), and for all of us. We are partners in this fight, and I think that – it’s quite emotional today, because the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki they really know, they nuclear weapons the best. They’re the real experts. They know how it feels like, how it looks like, how it smells when your city is burning from nuclear weapons use. And there are not so many left. We are really at the last few years when we still have a chance to hear the stories from people who were there and who remember it. So I just think it’s a wonderful decision by the Nobel committee.”
++BLACK FRAMES++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Beatrice Fihn, former ICAN executive director:
“Some people think that’s sort of a high-tech powerful weapon but it’s 1940s technology. Like it’s actually really outdated, it’s not how we carry out warfare. They are political symbols in many ways. But nuclear deterrence relies on that you are actually prepared to do it – even if it’s going to harm your own people. So I think you can’t actually use them without harming your own people. So I think this is a – you know, hearing the stories from the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, looking at the science around the impact of nuclear weapons use – I think it really lowers the value of nuclear weapons. And if we can lower the value of nuclear weapons, they become really expensive, clumsy and unusable.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.
Speaking to the Associated Press on Friday former ICAN executive director Beatrice Fihn said she was “so so happy for them, for all of us. We are partners in this fight.”
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel prize in 2017 for its work to outlaw nuclear weapons.
“They know how it feels like, how it looks like, how it smells when your city is burning from nuclear weapons use. And there are not so many left. We are really at the last few years when we still have a chance to hear the stories from people who were there and who remember it. So I just think it’s a wonderful decision by the Nobel committee.” Fihn said.
The Nobel prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million). Unlike the other prizes that are selected and announced in Stockholm, founder Alfred Nobel decreed the Peace Prize be decided and awarded in Oslo by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The Nobel season ends Monday with the announcement of the winner of the economics prize, formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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