{"id":20386,"date":"2019-02-19T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2019-02-18T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:00:10","slug":"trump-to-win-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/opinion\/trump-to-win-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to win Nobel Peace Prize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Supporters cite the US president\u2019s accomplishments in pacifying the Korean Peninsula crisis<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, US President Donald Trump claimed that Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe had given him a five-page letter addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating him for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Abe has declined to comment publicly on whether this is true, yet Trump has at least two other supporters&#8211;Norwegian lawmakers&#8211;who cite his work resolving last year\u2019s Korean Peninsula crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have nominated him of course for the positive developments on the Korean Peninsula,\u201d Per-Willy Amundsen, who was Justice Minister in Prime Minister Erna Solberg\u2019s cabinet in 2016-2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-nobel-prize-peace\/no-need-for-shinzo-abe-trump-already-nominated\">told Reuters<\/a>. \u201cIt has been a very difficult situation and the tensions have since lowered and a lot of it is due to Trump\u2019s unconventional diplomatic style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two Norwegian lawmakers, members of the rightist Progress Party, said they submitted a nomination letter to the Nobel Committee in June, immediately after a summit Trump held in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un aimed at easing tensions and tackling Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n<p>A wide range of people can nominate individuals for the Nobel Peace Prize, including members of parliaments and governments, heads of state, university professors of history, social sciences or law and past Nobel Peace Prize laureates, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for nominations for the 2019 prize, whose winner will be revealed Oct. 11., was Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The five-strong Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects the winners, does not comment on nominations, maintaining confidential the names of nominators and unsuccessful nominees.<\/p>\n<p>All we do know, via a press release, is that 304 candidates have been nominated for this year\u2019s prize, of which 219 are individuals and 85 are organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/2018\/press-release\/\">was jointly awarded<\/a> to Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters cite the US president\u2019s accomplishments in pacifying the Korean  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":20387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[98,1385,1389,1011,290,1850],"class_list":["post-20386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-ceo-north-america","tag-ceo-northam","tag-nobel-prize","tag-paul-imison","tag-trump","tag-trump-and-nobel-peace-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20389,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions\/20389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}