President Donald Trump of the United States has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, for the second time.
Norwegian politician, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, made the nomination, and related to the ‘historic peace agreement’ between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
‘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 said in his nomination letter.
In 2019, he also nominated Trump for the Peace Prize, citing the President’s efforts towards peace with North Korea and Syria.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News.
Tybring-Gjedde also discussed Trump’s role in “creating new dynamics” in other world conflicts, including facilitating contact between North and South Korea.
He told Fox News that he was “not a big Trump supporter”, but that other leaders should follow his lead in reserving their judgment.
“The committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts – not on the way he behaves sometimes,” he said.
“The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump. For example, Barack Obama did nothing.”
Besides Obama, three other American presidents have won the peace prize, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Theodore Roosevelt.
Carter won the Prize for his efforts in resolving international conflicts, including his role in the resolution of the conflict between Israel and Egypt through the Camp David Accords.
