President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday said receiving the Nobel Prize would be "a great stimulus" for Colombian efforts to achieve peace, in an interview with the Nobel Foundation. 

"The message is that we have to persevere and reach the end of this war. We are very, very close, we just need to push a bit further," he said. 

"This (prize) is going to be a great stimulus to reach that end and to start the construction of peace in Colombia."