The UN’s World Food Programme has won the Nobel Peace Prize, in a strong endorsement of multilateralism after US president Donald Trump questioned the merits of several international organisations.
“Multilateralism seems to have a lack of respect these days,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, head of the Norwegian committee, who said the discrediting of international institutions was “part of populism, it has a nationalistic flavour”.
The UN’s largest specialist agency was praised for its efforts in combating hunger, and stopping its use in war and conflict. Ms Reiss-Andersen said it was “a modern version of the peace congresses” that the prize was intended to promote.
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