The President of United States, Donald Trump, has been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for his unflinching efforts in reaching the agreement between United Arab Emirates and Israel.
The Nobel Peace Prize happens to be one of five Nobel Prizes with Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Chemistry and Physics.
The winner is chosen by a panel made up of five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway.
Trump’s nomination was submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Tybring-Gjedde submitted a nomination for Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his Singapore summit which hosted Kim Jong Un in 2018.
While talking to Fox News about Trump’s nomination, Tybring-Gjedde said: “For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees.”
He said apart from the Israel-UAE deal, the nomination letter to the Nobel Committee cited Trump’s “key role in facilitating contact between conflicting parties… such as the Kashmir border dispute between India and Pakistan, and the conflict between North and South Korea.”
He also revealed that he is “not a big Trump supporter” but if compared to Obama who won in 2009, Trump has done more to foster peace in the world.
He said: “The committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts – not on the way he behaves sometimes.
“The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump.
“For example, Barack Obama did nothing.”
The prize will be awarded on December 10, 2020.
