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October 7, 2005
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei addressing the media
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN agency and its Director Mohammed ElBaradei have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005, the committee's chairman Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs announced today.
In the announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee emphasizes the role the IAEA plays in preventing military use of nuclear energy arms proliferation, and ensuring peaceful use of nuclear energy. Furthermore, the Committee notes that IAEA's work is in line with Alfred Nobel's original motivation for the Peace Prize, namely the reduction of standing armies. The committee expressed its belief that the increasing threat of nuclear arms today must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation, as exemplified in the work of the IAEA.
A spokeswoman for the IAEA, Melissa Flemming, said in Vienna: "I never thought we'd see this day. This is the proudest day for the IAEA. We are proud, astonished, elated."
The IAEA, headquartered in Vienna and established in 1957, seeks to prevent nuclear proliferation and promotes the peaceful use of nuclear energy. It is currently involved in efforts to bring DPRK (North Korea) back to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime and verifying the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program. These negotiations have been difficult, and are viewed by some [1] as not very successful.
The 63-year old Mohamed ElBaradei, an Egyptian-born lawyer, heads the agency since 1997 and was recently confirmed for a third term.
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La Agencia Internacional de Energía Atómica (AIEA), con sede en Viena, Austria y su presidente ElBaradei recibieron el Premio Nobel de la Paz 2005.

El comité Nobel noruego ha resaltado la acción preventiva de AIEA en los lugares donde se han presentado crisis nucleares, para evitar su proliferación. El comité resalta igualmente la conexión directa entre las acciones de la AIEA y la idea que tenía Alfred Nobel para el premio de la paz : la reducción de armas. El trabajo internacional de la agencia sería, según el comité Nobel noruego, la única forma para controlar la proliferación.

Un vocero de la AIEA, expresó que este día ha sido «el más bello para la agencia (...) Todos estamos orgullosos». El presidente egipcio de la agencia que vela por el cumplimiento del Tratado de no-proliferación (TNP), Mohammed ElBaradei, indicó que el premio lo refuerza en sus acciones contra la proliferación de armas nucleares, particularmente en Corea del Norte y en Irán.