Juan Manuel Santos dedicates Nobel Prize to people of Colombia

Claiming that this was a great recognition for Colombia, Santos added that he was eternally grateful to the int’l community for the award.

Oslo

: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Friday that he was deeply honoured by the Nobel Peace Prize, which he dedicated to the people of his country.

"I receive this with great emotion," Santos told the Nobel Foundation in an audio interview posted on its Facebook account.

"This is a great, great recognition for my country," he said. "I am eternally grateful."

"I receive this award in their name: the Colombian people who have suffered so much in this war. Especially the millions of victims that have suffered in this war that we are on the verge of ending," he said.