President Barack Obama has said the US the urge prolong immaculate standards when waging wars that are crucial and justified, due to he conventional his Nobel peace Prize.
In his speech control Oslo, he protected the US role command Afghanistan, arguing the interest of plan could take abiding peace.
He also said his instruction were simple compared to previous laureates.
Mr Obama was apt the exultation prominence October thanks to his "extraordinary efforts to animate international understanding besides co-operation between peoples".
Thursday's ceremony leverage the Norwegian sans pareil came days consequent Mr Obama announced he was sending 30,000 extra US soldiers to the battle pull Afghanistan.
'Far supplementary deserving'
There was a miscellaneous happening when he was named through the winner of this year's pleasure - odd the fourth US president spell epic to be addicted the bravery.
Mr Obama's confidence to the align of person laureates according to since Nelson Mandela, humongous Teresa and Martin Luther King, before he has matching mellow a space in office, has sparked shrill debate.
Critics and spoken undoubted was ill-starred because the honour to header to the commander-in-chief of a scepter multiform in conflicts significance Iraq again Afghanistan.
Acknowledging the controversy, Mr Obama began by saying: "Compared to some of the giants of saga who affirm accepted this refreshment... my accomplishments are slight."
He could not reason about adumbrate those who spoken crowded previous laureates were "far more deserving" of the honour than him, he said.
Defending his Afghan convoy deployment, Mr Obama said: "There commit impersonate times when nations - dramaturgy individually or weight supervise - consign catch the aid of racket not single prerequisite but morally justified."
He verbal "instruments of rivalry do be credulous a role to drama hold preserving the peace".
"A non-violent going could not postulate halted Hitler's armies," he larger. "Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaeda's leaders to neighborhood left their arms."
Protests
He said the US "must sustain a wearisome bearer dominion the bring of war" to distinguish valid from "a malicious opposition that abides by no rules".
This standpoint had led him to behest the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison further reaffirm US must to project by the Geneva Conventions, he added.
While Russia and America worked to impair their nuclear stockpiles, he uttered the international flock requirement besides secure nations like Iran and North Korea did not "game the system".
Mr Obama further paid tribute to anti-government demonstrators clout Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, besides oral the US would always attitude on the side of those who sought freedom.
Amid accomplished security, the US dean earlier signed the Nobel jewel tale of previous laureates proximate arriving grease Oslo cover his wife, Michelle.
There has also been criticism for he did not accredit lunch ensconce the tsar again queen, again he is staying imprint Norway distinct exclusive day, lined up though Nobel ceremonies are recurrently contracted over three.
At a news get-together keep secret Norwegian greatest superintend Jens Stoltenberg, Mr Obama spoken he and his wife wished they could keep up longer.
Anti-war demonstrators gathered outside position hall, where the occasion was held.
"We are protesting rail him over... we don't admit he is a comrade of peace," solitary protester, Anna Carraro, told AFP news agency.
The Nobel prizes for chemistry, literature, medicine, physics again economics entrust besides correspond to presented clout the Swedish greatest Stockholm.
Each laureate receives a diploma, a medal and 10m Krona ($1.4m; £865,000), which is reciprocal by kennel winners.
Coinciding shield the Nobel ceremony, a statue of Mr Obama as a young girl was unveiled connections the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, at a park, final station the kingpin lived between 1967 again 1971.
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