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October 12, 2001
Previous Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to UN officials or organizations:
1945: Cordell Hull, a former U.S. secretary of state, for being one of the initiators of the United Nations. 1950: Ralph Bunche, acting U.N. mediator in Palestine, for his mediation of the 1949 armistice between Israel and the Arab states. 1954: The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, for its ``untiring and sometimes thankless effort, to bring assistance to the refugees.'' 1957: Lester B. Pearson, former Canadian prime minister, for mediating a truce in the 1956 Middle East War, and sponsoring the resolution creating a United Nations Emergency Force to police the Suez Canal. 1961: Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, awarded posthumously following his death in a plane crash on a peace mission to Congo, ``in gratitude for all he did, for what he achieved, for what he fought for: to create peace and goodwill among nations and men.'' 1965: The U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, for realizing that ``the children of today make the history of the future.'' 1969: The International Labor Organization for promoting ``social justice.'' 1981: The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, for the second time, for assisting a tremendous number of refugees ``despite the many political difficulties with which it has to contend.'' 1988: U.N. peacekeeping forces, for ``reducing tensions'' and making ``a decisive contribution toward the initiation of actual peace negotiations.''
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