In a month of D -day, the Norwegian Nobel Committee jealously affirms his freedom of decision against the obsession of US President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Since his return to the White House, the Republican has not hidden it: he loves the Nobel that one of his great Democratic rivals before him, Barack Obama (2009-2017), had won the general surprise shortly after assuming the position.
In the slightest opportunity, the 79 -year -old billionaire repeats that “he deserves it”, citing his role in conflict resolution, even if the wars in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine are still furious.
The Nobel defends his independence
“We can see that there is much attention from the media around certain candidates,” he reacted to Oslo, the secretary of the Nobel Committee, Kristian Berg Harpviken. “But that does not influence the discussions in progress within the committee.”
“The committee examines each candidacy according to its own merits,” he said in an interview with AFP. The Nobel Peace Nobel will be awarded on October 10.
In support of his campaign, Donald Trump argues that several foreign leaders, from Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli to Azerbaikani Ilham Aliev, proposed or supported their candidacy.
However, I am not sure that these appointments arrived on time by 2025. Trump assumed the position on January 20, only 11 days before the deadline for submitting applications.
338 nominations
“Being proposed is not necessarily a great achievement. The real achievement is to become a winner,” said Kristian Berg Harpviken. “You know, the list of people who can offer (a candidate) is quite long.”
Parliamentarians and ministers of all countries, former winners, some university professors … tens of thousands of people are empowered to name. This year, 338 individuals and organizations are in operation. The list remains secret.
The applications considered the most deserving are preserved in a limited list and each is the object of an individual evaluation by an expert. “When the Deliberate Committee is this basis of knowledge that supervises the discussion, and not such and such a press article,” says Kristian Berg Harpviken.
“We do our best to organize the process and meetings so as not to be improperly influenced by any campaign,” he said. “In history, there are few people who have guided their careers to win a Nobel Peace Prize and ended up having it.”
According to the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv, Donald Trump, during a telephone interview with customs duties at the end of July, mentioned the Nobel with the Norwegian finance minister Jens Stoltenberg, whom he met well since he directed NATO. The Ministry confirmed the existence of this call, but not the information about the Nobel.
Pressures reported
If the Norwegian Parliament designates its five members, the Nobel Committee establishes decisions regardless of political power. As proof, he had ignored the discrete warnings of the Norwegian government and awarded the Peace Prize to the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010, causing a diplomatic break between Beijing and Oslo.
“The Nobel Committee acts independently and cannot afford to take these considerations into account when it examines individual applications,” insists its secretary.
In Norway, a country joined a multilateralism that Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) defended in his time, but that the line “America Cruz” by Donald Trump has become completely the other way around, experts doubt the possibilities of the latter.
“This type of pressure is generally counterproductive,” said Halvard Leira, research director of the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI). “If the Committee gave Trump the price now, he would obviously be accused of bed before him,” breaking the independence he shows, “he explains to AFP. In August, three Nobel historians had gone beyond enumerating multiple reasons not to award the prize to the US president.
Pell-Mell, cited their admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who caused the war in Ukraine, his support for Israel in what more and more experts qualify as “genocide” in Gaza, and in general his rest with the ideals of the affairs of international cooperation, disarmament, democracy and the defense of human rights.
“The members of the Nobel Committee should have lost their heads,” these historians wrote in a press forum.
Source: BFM TV
