Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a right-wing member of parliament in Norway. has nominated president Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. This is the second time he has done so.
Tybring-Gjedde is a senior member of the conservative Progress Party and a four-time MP at the Stortinget, the Norwegian parliament. He said he nominated Trump because of the U.S. President's role in bringing about the Israel-United Arab Emirates peace agreement, or the Abraham Accord.
Agreed on by Israel and the UAE on Aug. 13, the deal will make the UAE the third Arab country to formally open diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. The deal has yet to be formally approved by both countries, however.
"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.
In his letter to the Nobel Committee, Tybring-Gjedde said the Trump administration played an important role in the establishment of relations between the UAE and Israel.
He said Trump's "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."
The winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Oct. 9, 2021 in Oslo, Norway.
Tybring-Gjedde nominated Trump for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic efforts to talk North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un into denuclearizing his country. The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was conferred on Denis Mukwege from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman, for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has seen the nomination of 300 individuals and organizations, the largest number ever. The winner of the award will be announced this October.
Trump, however, has always doubted he'd ever be awarded the peace prize. His predecessor, Barack Obama, won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
"They gave it to Obama. He didn't even know what he got it for. He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize. He said, 'Oh, what did I get it for?' " Trump said in February 2019. "With me, I probably will never get it."
