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Article: Greenpeace expresses shock at Nobel committee's pick for peace prize
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- October 7, 2005
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AP Worldstream
10-07-2005
Dateline: VIENNA, Austria
The environmental group Greenpeace said Friday it was shocked that the Nobel committee has given its prestigious peace prize this year to Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency, arguing that the U.N. agency's promotion of atomic energy has increased the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.
"With the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to such an organization, the meaning of this instrument of peace is seriously put into question," Jan van de Putte, an atomic expert with Greenpeace, said in a statement.
"Greenpeace is shocked by the naming of IAEA and its director Mohamed ...