Why was Nobel Committee Chairman wrong?
It's wrong to use nobel prize as political tool
Since Jagland took the chairmanship, the Nobel Committee has selected two controversial winners for the peace prize in two consecutive years.
Last year, the Nobel Committee decided to award the peace prize to the president of the United States, a country that was fighting two wars at the time. So even U.S. President Barack Obama himself was "surprised" by the award.
After the decision was announced, the opposition parties within the Norwegian parliament asked Jagland to resign from the Nobel Committee because he was also serving as secretary general of the Council of Europe.
Just as Siv Jensen, head of the Progress Party, said, Jagland should step down because his new job as secretary general of the Council of Europe compromised his independence.
Other opposition parties noted that by awarding the U.S. president the peace prize, Jagland intended to draw closer relations between Washington and Brussels.
The fact proves that Jagland and his fellows have repeatedly used the Nobel Prize as a political tool.
Last year, they deployed it to serve the interests of Europe and this year they did it again to serve the interests of certain forces in the West who still enshrine the Cold War ideology.
Just as a Chinese saying goes: a man can do nothing without a good credit. What Jagland did has made him lose credit, as has the Nobel Committee.
