Press accreditation for Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony will be held in Oslo City Hall on Monday 10 December at 13:00. This year’s prize is to be shared equally between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. A press conference with Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri and Al Gore Jr will be held on Sunday 9 December at 13:00 at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Henrik Ibsens gate 51. 

A press centre will be set up in the Grand Hotel, floor 7, which will open on Sunday 9 December at 10:00. 

This year too, CNN will broadcast a programme featuring the prize winners direct from Oslo City Hall from 17:00, after the actual award ceremony is over. This programme will be shown on CNN International and journalists are welcome to attend.  

The Peace Prize Performance of the Oslo Schools will take place in Oslo City Hall on Tuesday 11 December from 15:30 to 16:45. Journalists are welcome to attend. 

Information about the Nobel Peace Prize is published on the Norwegian Nobel Institute’s website. 

Applications for press accreditation should be sent on the application form to press@mfa.no. The deadline is 6 December 2007. 

Information on the Nobel Peace Prize Concert on Tuesday 11 December at 20:00 is available from the concert press officer, Miriam Henriksen, tel.: +47 974 79 238, email: mirian.henriksen@imgworld.com. Press releases, photos and information about the concert can be found at www.nobelpeaceprize.org/concert. You can log on to this site with:

username: concert password: imgpress 

The deadline for applications for accreditation for the concert is 29 November 2007.