LIBYA IS MUCH MORE EUROPE AND CLINTON'S WAR, BUT BROTHER-PRESIDENT MORALES HAS A POINT

La Paz - Bolivian President Evo Morales demanded Monday that the Nobel

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Committee of the Norwegian Parliament deprive US President Barack Obama of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize after he ordered airstrikes on Libya.

'How can it be that a Nobel Peace Prize laureate leads a group of gangs to attack and invade? That is not part of a defence of human rights or (respect) for the self-determination of peoples,' Morales told a press conference.

The Nobel committee surprised the world by giving the 2009 prize to Obama, only a few months after his inauguration. The committee rewarded 'his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.'

Morales - the first president of indigenous descent in Bolivia's history - was himself a candidate for the prize that year, for his work in favour of social justice and inclusion in Bolivia.

Before becoming Bolivia's president in 2006, Morales was awarded the 50,000-dollar Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights by Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi in Tripoli.

Morales slammed the UN Security Council for authorizing a military intervention in Libya. He asked that airstrikes on Libya end, and proposed a group of United Nations, Arab League and African Union officials to mediate a peaceful way out of the crisis in the North African country.