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On October 9, 2020 the World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Announcement by the Nobel Committee: https://www.nobelprize.org/

Announcement by WFP: https://insight.wfp.org/world-food-programme-chief-pays-tribute-to-front-line-staff-and-partners-after-nobel-peace-prize-fc406608d60

Secretary-General’s statement on the awarding of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Peace to the World Food Programme:  https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-10-09/secretary-general%E2%80%99s-statement-the-awarding-of-the-2020-nobel-prize-for-peace-the-world-food-programme

SG video message of congratulations: http://webtv.un.org/watch/ant%C3%B3nio-guterres-un-secretary-general-on-the-awarding-of-the-2020-nobel-prize-for-peace-to-the-world-food-programme/6199155473001/

Executive Director of WFP’s statement: https://www.wfp.org/news/world-food-programme-awarded-nobel-peace-prize-statement-wfp-executive-director-david-beasley

UN News Centre story (multiple languages): https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1075012

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October 9, 2020

We congratulate United Nations World Food Programme that was awarded the Nobel peace prize 2020, “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”

The priority of the World Food Programme is the Sustainable Development Goal 2 – Zero Hunger – pledges to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

WFP - Press Briefing: Nobel Peace Prize Win (Geneva, 9 October 2020)

UN Nobel Peace Prize laureates through the years

• 2020 World Food Programme
• 2005 IAEA
• 2001 UN and Secretary-General Kofi Annan
• 1988 UN Peacekeeping forces
• 1981 UNHCR
• 1969 ILO
• 1965 UNICEF
• 1961 Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld
• 1954 UNHCR