A Norwegian deputy announced on Friday January 6 that he had nominated the head of NATO, his compatriot Jens Stoltenberg, for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, emphasizing his role against Russia in the war in Ukraine.
"
Stoltenberg deserves the award for his exemplary work as NATO Secretary General in a difficult time for the alliance: the brutal and unprovoked offensive against a peaceful neighboring country
", wrote on his Facebook page Christian Tybring- Gjedde, representative of the anti-immigration populist right in Parliament.
Submission of applications before the end of January
Former Labor Prime Minister of Norway, the head of NATO "
has from the first moments
Ukraine can count on NATO "as long as it takes"
for all the countries that base their governance on democracy and freedoms
,” he added.
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Tens of thousands of people (parliamentarians and ministers from all countries, former laureates, certain university professors, etc.) are entitled to submit a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The deadline for filing is January 31, with the five members of the Nobel Committee then having the opportunity to complete the list with their own proposals at their first meeting.
The proposed Zelensky candidacy in 2022
Last year, Christian Tybring-Gjedde nominated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
It was ultimately the imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski (whose trial has just started in Minsk), the Russian NGO Memorial (whose Russian justice ordered the dissolution) and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties who had him swept away with war as a backdrop.
In 2021, Christian Tybring-Gjedde had also advanced the candidacy of US President Donald Trump for the Nobel.
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The list of candidates is generally kept secret, but sponsors can publicly announce the identity of their “
foal
”.
For example, the President of the Pakistani Senate announced that he had nominated the Turkish head of state Recep Erdogan for his peace efforts “
before and during the Russia-Ukraine war
”.
The Nobel Prize will be awarded in early October 2023.
