Barack Obama set for Oslo Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

US President Barack Obama is due to collect his Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Norway's capital, Oslo.

The prize was awarded to Mr Obama in October for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".
The ceremony comes days after Mr Obama announced he was sending 30,000 extra US soldiers to the war in Afghanistan.
US officials said he was aware of the "juxtaposition" and would refer to US wars in his acceptance speech.
There was a mixed reaction when Mr Obama was named as the winner of the prize for 2009.
Many said it was inappropriate that it could go to the commander-in-chief of a country involved in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Mr Obama "understands and again will also recognise that he doesn't belong in the same discussion as [Nelson] Mandela and Mother Theresa", previous Nobel Peace Prize winners.

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He said Mr Obama would use his acceptance speech to "address directly the notion that many have wondered - which is the juxtaposition of the timing of the Nobel Peace Prize and his commitment to add more troops".
A senior official told Reuters news agency Mr Obama "sees the peace prize as having a long history of recognising the accomplishments of people who have worked to extend peace in various ways".
"He believes that part of the reason he won this award was not simply about him, it's the fact that there's a hunger around the world for constructive American leadership and this is an affirmation of that," said the unnamed official.
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Security is high in Oslo for the event and anti-war protesters have gathered outside the hotel where the ceremony will take place.

Jakarta officials said the statue was meant to inspire children

"We are protesting against him because he is going to have this prize and we don't think he is a man of peace," one protester, Anna Carraro, told AFP news agency.
The Nobel Prizes for chemistry, literature, medicine, physics and economics will also be presented, with each laureate receiving a diploma, a medal and 10m Krona ($1.4m:£865,000), which is shared by joint winners.
Coinciding with the Nobel ceremony, Indonesia is to unveil a statue of Mr Obama as a young boy.
It will stand in a park in the capital, Jakarta, close to where the president lived between 1967 and 1971 and depicts him as a 10-year-old wearing shorts and with a butterfly on his finger.
Central Jakarta Mayor Sylviana Murni said the statue was intended to inspire Indonesian children.
"There is a message through the young Obama statue that any child and anyone from any background can reach their dreams if they fight for it persistently," the Associated Press news agency quoted her as saying.