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OSLO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo..
The Nobel Peace Prize has been controversial on many occasions but most agreed in 1993 that Mandela winning the award was "self-evident", according to Geir Lundestad, the then secretary of the Norwegian Nobel committee...
In the end, the prize was given to both to encourage the peaceful transition to a democratic South Africa, which was not completed by the time of the award...
Among the most controversial awards is the 1973 one to top U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho for reaching the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords under which Washington completed a military withdrawal from South Vietnam...
One of the few women to win the award, Suu Kyi was one of a string of human rights campaigners in the 1990s to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for her non-violent struggle for democracy against the military dictatorship in Myanmar...
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