This year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in the Oslo City Hall on 10 December at 1300 hours.

The prize winner, President Jimmy Carter, will give a press conference at the Nobel Institute, Drammensveien 19 on Monday 9 December at 1300.

A press centre will be established at Grand Hotel, 6th floor (Norwegian 7th floor) in connection with the awarding of the Peace Prize. The press centre will open on Monday 9 December at 1000 hours. The press centre’s telephone and fax numbers will be announced at a later date.

Representatives of the press who are interested in reserving hotel accommodation are asked to contact Bennett Travel Agency, tel. (47) 22 83 66 00, fax (47) 22 83 66 01, attention: Mr. Per Brekke. ( per.brekke@bennettbti.com ). Please state your credit card number and fax number if you want to make a reservation through Bennett BTI.

After the ceremony in the Oslo City Hall at 1700, CNN will broadcast alive an interview with the award winner also in the City Hall. Reporters are invited as audience.

According to an agreement between the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Cooperation (NRK), the latter has certain rights to the television recording of the Peace Prize Ceremony 2002. Trans World International (TWI) in London, has distribution rights for the entire programme outside the EBU-area. NRK may, however, on request provide footage not exceeding five minutes for use in regular news broadcasts by television companies that are members of EBU.

Requests for technical assistance by foreign television companies may also be directed to NRK.

TWI London : Tel. 44 208 846 8070, Fax 44 208 233 5301

NRK: EVN Office, NRK-TV, tel. + 47 23 04 96 21, fax + 47 23 04 82 27

A detailed press programme will be available at a later date.

Information and accreditation for the Nobel Concert on 11 December: www.akdesign.no/nobel/ log in: user name: concert, pass word: imgpress

For futher information please contact Ms. Miriam Henriksen, press officer, + 47 920 45 431, e-mail: mhenriksen@imgworld.com Applications before 29 November.

Application for press accreditation: www.akkreditering.mfa.no or press@mfa.no

before 2 December

Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, 15 November 2002