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Santos received a gold medal, diploma and a cheque for 8.0 million Swedish crowns.
Updated : Dec 10, 2016, 07:15 PM IST
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos collected the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday for reaching an accord with Marxist rebels to end a 52-year civil war in which more than 200,000 people have died.
Santos received a gold medal, diploma and a cheque for 8.0 million Swedish crowns ($870,000) at a ceremony in Oslo's city hall.
The Nobel Committee praised Santos as "a driving force" behind the peace agreement signed last month by the government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Juan Manuel Santos receiving his #NobelPeacePrize Medal and Diploma https://t.co/Dxi8kRBnkq
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) December 10, 2016
Nobel Lecture "Peace in Colombia: From the Impossible to the Possible" by @JuanManSantos https://t.co/exuJwOyGMt #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/bjKTtmsfU1
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) December 10, 2016
Nobel Lecture by @JuanManSantos in Spanish “La paz en Colombia: De lo imposible a lo posible” https://t.co/7crCtcYQha #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/DyCeDm1J7S
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) December 10, 2016
President @JuanManSantos giving an inspiring Nobel Lecture at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony #NobelPeacePrize 2016 #NobelDePazColombia pic.twitter.com/uRUTjGD9n0
— Nobel Peace Center (@NobelPeaceOslo) December 10, 2016