US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021
Nobel peace prize.
According to Fox News on Wednesday, Christian
Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian parliament, submitted Trump’s name
for the award for helping to broker the Israel-UAE peace deal.
Trump’s nomination comes amid racial tension and violence in
the US.
In May, there was an outbreak of protests across US states
after the killing of George Floyd, a black American man, by some officers of
the Minneapolis police department (MPD).
The protests turned violent in some cities and persisted for
weeks. There have been other reported race-linked killings of black Americans
by the police since Floyd.
In his letter to the Nobel committee on his nomination of
the US president, the chairman of the Norwegian delegation to NATO
Parliamentary Assembly, said the Trump administration has played a key role in
the establishment of relations between Israel and the UAE.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create
peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde
said.
“As it is expected other Middle Eastern countries will
follow in the footsteps of the UAE, this agreement could be a game changer that
will turn the Middle East into a region of cooperation and prosperity.
Tybring-Gjedde, who praised Trump in his letter, said he
played a “key role in facilitating contact between conflicting parties and…
creating new dynamics in other protracted conflicts, such as the Kashmir border
dispute between India and Pakistan, and the conflict between North and South
Korea, as well as dealing with the nuclear capabilities of North Korea”.
The US president was also commended for withdrawing a large
number of troops from the Middle East.
“Indeed, Trump has broken a 39-year-old streak of American
Presidents either starting a war or bringing the United States into an
international armed conflict. The last president to avoid doing so was Peace
Prize laureate Jimmy Carter,” Tybring-Gjedde said.
In 2018, the four-term member of Norwegian parliament also
nominated Trump after the US president’s summit with Kim Jong Un, North Korean
leader.
But Trump did not win the award.
Over 300 individuals and organisations have been nominated
for the 2020 award, the winner of which will be announced in October.
Nominations may be submitted by any person who fits the
criteria, and the Nobel organisation does not formally announce a list of
nominees until after 50 years have elapsed.
Barack Obama, Trump’s predecessor, won the coveted
international award in 2009.
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