{"id":122003,"date":"2017-10-07T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122003"},"modified":"2017-10-07T02:57:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:57:34","slug":"un-chief-congratulates-ican-on-winning-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/07\/un-chief-congratulates-ican-on-winning-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief congratulates ICAN on winning Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122004\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Ant\u00f3nio_Guterres_November_2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122004\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Ant\u00f3nio_Guterres_November_2016.jpg\" alt=\"ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for its &quot;efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons&quot;, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced. (Photo by DFID - UK Department for International Development)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Ant\u00f3nio_Guterres_November_2016.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Ant\u00f3nio_Guterres_November_2016-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Ant\u00f3nio_Guterres_November_2016-768x1056.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Ant\u00f3nio_Guterres_November_2016-745x1024.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=53231494\">ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for its &#8220;efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons&#8221;, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced.<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=53231494\">(Photo by DFID &#8211; UK Department for International Development)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>UNITED NATIONS<\/strong>\u2014 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday congratulated the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, urging all countries to make &#8220;greater commitment for a world free of nuclear weapons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for its &#8220;efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons&#8221;, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This prize recognizes the determined efforts of civil society to highlight the unconscionable humanitarian and environmental consequences that would result if they were ever used again,&#8221; Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nuclear disarmament has been an objective for the United Nations since the very first General Assembly resolution in 1946, which established the goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS\u2014 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday congratulated the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on winning the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,95],"tags":[26463,26464,26462],"class_list":["post-122003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","category-news-ph","tag-international-campaign-to-abolish-nuclear-weapons-ican","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}