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Article: Sri Chinmoy Nominated to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize 51 Icelandic MPs sign a nomination to the Nobel Committee
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- September 26, 2007
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 26, 2007) - Icelandic members
of Parliament have signed a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee
where they nominate Sri Chinmoy for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
In the nomination which is signed by 51 MPs, it says that Sri
Chinmoy's ceaseless work for the United Nations for over 30 years
crystallizes his belief in the unity and affinity among nations and
the individuals who inhabit them.
"We undersigned members of the Icelandic Parliament, believe that
Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose belongs to the group of individuals who have
given the ideal for peace their all, for both in Iceland as around
the world, his ceaseless grassroots work for the sake of peace ...