Press programme for The Nobel Peace Prize 2002
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Pressemelding | Dato: 04.12.2002 | Sist oppdatert: 23.10.2006
Press release
Date: 04.12.2002
The Nobel Peace Prize 2002
Press programme for the visit of this year’s laureate: President Jimmy Carter.
General information:
The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Press Office, issues accreditation badges. The badges can be picked up from Monday 9 December from 1000 at the Press Centre at Grand Hotel, 7 th> floor.
Press conference will be held by the Laureate on Monday 9 December at 1300 – 1345 hours at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Drammensveien 19. Press entrance from Parkveien. The Press is advised to arrive not later than 1200.
Accreditation badges together with personal press cards must be presented in order to take part in the press conferences as well as all other arrangements.
Prior to all arrangements the police will carry out a strict security control of all media representatives and equipment.
The Press Centre:
Address: | Grand Hotel, 7 th> floor |
Karl Johans gate 31 |
Press Contacts:
Ms. Benedicte Tresselt Koren | Tel: 900 29395 |
Ms. Mette S. Øwre | Tel: 481 12427 |
Opening hours:
Monday 9 December from 1000 hours
Tuesday 10 December from 0900 hours
Wednesday 11 December closed
The ceremony in the City Hall
Representatives from the Press Office together with the Police will check badges of all media for entry into the City Hall from 1130 hours. (Western Tower entrance)
Police will close all entrances to The City Hall at 1245 hours
Photographers:
A photo pool together with a photographer from the Norwegian Nobel Institute will cover the ceremony from the ground floor of the Main Hall. All other photographers (together with radio reporters and journalists) will be taken to the Eastern Gallery of the Hall through the entrance of the Western Tower.
Photographers, who wish to cover the arrival of the Laureate and the guests to the City Hall, will be assigned to an area outside the main entrance. After the arrival of
HM King Harald and HM Queen Sonja, the photographers will be shown to the Eastern Gallery through the entrance of the Western Tower. The same photographer will thus not be able to cover both the arrivals and the opening procession inside the City Hall.
TV:
According to an agreement between the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Co-operation (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 (European Broadcasting Union).
Request for technical assistance by foreign television companies may also be directed to NRK.
TWI London: tel. 44 181 846 8070, fax 44 181 233 5301
NRK contact: EVN Office, NRK-TV, tel. (44) 23 04 96 21, fax (44) 23 04 82 27,
e-mail: nrknews@nrk.no
TV-companies and radio reporters will be admitted to the gallery.
Events preceding the ceremony:
Sunday 8 December
1005 | President Jimmy Carter arrives Oslo Airport Gardermoen by SK1460 from Copenhagen. Met by chairman of the Nobel Committee Gunnar Berge and secretary Geir Lundestad |
Photo opportunity |
Monday 9 December
1300 – 1345 hours | PRESS CONFERENCE at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Drammensveien 19 Press entrance from Parkveien |
(The Press should meet no later than 1200 hours) | |
1345 hours | Meeting with members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and employees/scholars of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Signing of copyright assignment. |
(Photo pool 1: NRK/TV, Scanpix, the Institute’s photographer andAtlanta Journal Constitution) | |
1430 hours | Rehearsal for Nobel Ceremony in Oslo City Hall |
NO PRESS | |
1900 hours | The Nobel Committee’s ’’Little Dinner’’ at the Grand Hotel for the Laureate and spouse |
Opening shots by photo pool 2: (TV2, Scanpix, Institute’s photographer and Atlanta Journal Constitution ) The pool must be present at the Grand Hotel no later than 1845 hours. |
Tuesday 10 December
Programme for the ceremony in The city hall:
The City Hall is located at Fridtjof Nansens Place in the centre of Oslo. The speeches at the Ceremony will be translated into Norwegian. The texts will be available at the Press Centre.
1130 hours | Doors open |
(Photo pool 3: NRK/TV, Scanpix, the photographer of the Nobel Institute and Atlanta Journal Constitution ) | |
1130 – 1230 hours | Journalists, photographers and cameramen enter through the Western Tower |
1135 – 1145 | Laureate meet with 3000 children at Rådhusplassen, Sea Side of the City Hall, arranged by Redd Barna (Save the Children) |
Photo opportunity | |
1145 | Photo pool 4 for the audience meets at the South Gate of the Royal Palace |
1200 | Audience with HM King Harald V and HM Queen Sonja at theM Queen SHM Royal Palace |
Photo pool 4: NRK/TV,TV2, Scanpix, ANB | |
1200 – 1300 hours | Photo opportunity at the arrival of guests (outside from assigned area or inside from Eastern Gallery) |
1258 hours | Processions enter City Hall (Laureate and members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Gunnar Stålsett, Sissel Rønbeck, Hanna Kvanmo and Inger-Marie Ytterhorn) |
1259 hours | HM King Harald V and HM Queen Sonja arrive accompanied by Gunnar Berge and Geir Lundestad |
NB! Cell phones must be switched off during the Ceremony | |
1300 hours | Ceremony starts |
Music: | |
Åge Kvalbein – cello | |
Tor Espen Aspaas – piano | |
‘’Andante molto tranquillo, Sonata for cello and piano in A-minor, op. 36, movement 2’’ by Edvard Grieg | |
1305 hours | Speech by Mr. Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee |
1325 | Jessye Norman |
‘’He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands’’ | |
Mark Markham - piano | |
1330 hours | Presentation of the diploma and medal to the Laureate President Jimmy Carter |
Photo Pool 3 | |
1335 | Jessye Norman |
‘’Then Shall The Eyes Of The Blind Be Open’’ | |
‘’He Shall Feed His Flock’’ | |
Mark Markham - piano | |
1340 hours | The Nobel Lecture by President Jimmy Carter |
1405 hours | Andreas Sønning – flute |
Aage Kvalbein – cello | |
Tor Espen Aspaas - piano | |
‘’Norwegian Dance no. 2 for flute, cello and piano’’ by Johan Halvorsen | |
1410 hours | HM the King and HM the Queen greet the Laureate |
Photo Pool 3 | |
1415 hours | End of Ceremony |
1700 – 1800 hours | CNN will broadcast alive an interview with President Jimmy Carter in Oslo City Hall |
Press is invited as audience . Please meet in the City Hall at 1630 hours at the latest. | |
1855 hours | Torchlight procession (Laureate on balcony, Nobel suite, Grand Hotel) |
Photo opportunity | |
1900 hours | The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s Banquet at the Grand Hotel |
Photo pool 5: Opening shots (NRK/TV, Scanpix, photographers of the Institute and Atlanta Journal Constitution) |
Wednesday 11 December
0900 - 1015 | Meeting with Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister’s Office |
Brief meeting with the press | |
Photo opportunity | |
1030 – 1130 | Meeting with Foreign Minister, Mr. Jan Petersen, Foreign Minister’s Office |
Photo opportunity | |
1130 – 1200 | Meeting with Minister of Internation Development, Ms. Hilde Frafjord Johnson |
Photo opportunity | |
1215 – 1300 | Meeting with members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Stortinget |
Photo opportunity | |
1330 – 1520 | Luncheom at the American Ambassador’s residence |
No photo | |
1530 – 1645 | Oslo School Project, Oslo City Hall |
Photo opportunity | |
1900 – 2200 | Concert in Oslo Spektrum |
Photo pool 6: To be decided separately |
Thursday 12 December
0845 | Departure Oslo Airport Gardermoen by SK484 for Stockholm |