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Tuesday 10 Nov 2015 - 13:13 Makkah mean time-28-1-1437
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Tunis (IINA) – Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on Monday hailed the Nobel Peace Prize awarded last month to the National Dialogue Quartet, saying it saved the country from "the specter of civil war", AFP reported.
The prize "paid tribute to the value of dialogue and proved that peaceful revolutions are possible," Essebsi said at a ceremony at the Carthage palace in the outskirts of Tunis.
He added that the group "was able to save the country from the specter of civil war and from chaos”.
On October 9, the Nobel committee announced that the 2015 award would go to the National Dialogue Quartet as an "encouragement to the Tunisian people" and as a beacon to the war-torn Middle East, North Africa and beyond.
The Quartet comprises the Tunisian General Labor Union, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the Tunisian Human Rights League, and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.
Formed in 2013 when the process of democratization was in danger of collapsing because of widespread social unrest, the quartet established an alternative, peaceful political process as Tunisia was on the brink of civil war, the Nobel committee said.
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