London: Venezuelan peace campaigner Maria Corina Machado has received the Nobel Peace Prize after an intense lobbying marketing campaign to call US President Donald Trump this 12 months’s winner due to his efforts to secure a lasting peace in Gaza.
Trump has brazenly sought the prize this 12 months, saying repeatedly that he ought to win it however that the awards committee may not give it to him.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to as for Donald Trump to be given the award.Credit score: Bloomberg
Requested on Thursday about his probabilities of profitable the prize, Trump mentioned he had ended eight wars together with the battle in Gaza however didn’t accomplish that to win the award.
“They’ll need to do what they do. No matter they do is okay,” he mentioned of the Nobel committee.
“I do know this: I didn’t do it for that, I did it as a result of I saved a variety of lives.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace backed Trump for the award on social media someday earlier than the choice, saying: “Give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize – he deserves it!”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi additionally mentioned Trump “deserves the Nobel Peace Prize” for the peace deal, in keeping with a press release reported by information service Anadolu Company.
In August, Trump made a shock phone call to Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, a former NATO secretary-general, and mentioned he needed the prize.
Critics have disputed his claims about ending eight wars, noting, as an illustration, that battle continues between Congo and Rwanda regardless of his claims about peace. India doesn’t settle for that Trump ended its current battle with Pakistan. Nonetheless, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev collectively endorsed Trump for the prize in August for his function in ending their battle.
