Local leaders given a week to sort on Nobel peace summit problems

Local leaders have been given a week to try to sort out conflicts among those planning a Nobel peace summit in Atlanta, or the international organization that awarded the city the event will move the gathering elsewhere.

In a press release issued this week by the Permanent Secretariat of The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, a Rome-based organization that spearheads annual gatherings of Nobel Peace Prize winners, the organization said its members met in recent days and are giving Atlanta a final opportunity to reach a resolution.

It did not outline the problems or describe the issues it hopes Atlanta will address, but threatened to yank the summit if its organizers fail to reach a solution that is “satisfactory” to Nobel laureates and Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration within a week.