(ETH) – US President Donald Trump has just been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize after helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
According to a report from Fox News, the nomination was submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, who is a member of the Norwegian Parliament. Gjedde lauded Trump for his valiant efforts toward resolving protracted conflicts worldwide.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of Parliament who also serves as chairman of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, told Fox News in an exclusive interview.
Tybring-Gjedde, stated that the Trump administration has played a major 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. He went on to stress that this agreement could be a game-changer that will turn the Middle East into a region of cooperation and prosperity,”
In the letter, it was also stated that 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.”
Tybring-Gjedde also stressed that: “I’m not a big Trump supporter,” “The committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts – not on the way he behaves sometimes. The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump.
For example, Barack Obama did nothing.” The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to then-President Barack Obama for what the Nobel Committee called his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”