Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a right-wing Norwegian politician put the US president forward for a nomination, he revealed on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize after helping broker a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a right-wing Norwegian politician put the US president forward for a nomination, he revealed on Wednesday.
He told Fox News that the reason behind the nomination is the “historic peace agreement” between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” he said.
Mr Tybring-Gjedde, in his nomination letter, said the Trump administration played a critical role in the establishment of relations between Israel and the UAE.
“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,” he wrote.
The politician also said that Trump 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.”
Praising Trump for withdrawing troops from Middle-East, he said, “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.” He also added that the last president to avoid doing so was Peace Prize laureate, Jimmy Carter.
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