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Cambodia became the third country that officially confirmed that it will nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, by virtue of his intervention to end the military conflict with the neighboring Thailand, reports Reuters.
The information comes one day after the Reuters agency revealed exclusively, citing under anonymity 4 familiar sources with the discussions, that the phone calls that Trump had with the leaders of the two countries played a crucial role in the conclusion of the armistice and that the initial efforts of China and Malaysia were not successful.
Trump spoke last Saturday with the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand, but the armed forces of the two countries later continued the border bombings. A complete armistice was officially announced on Monday.
Asked by a text message if Reuters information about Cambodia's intention to nominate on Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize are correct, Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol replied: “Yes”.
The diplomatic tensions between the two countries, which broke out at the end of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to the death of a Cambodian soldier in an area disputed from the border, degenerated on July 24, despite the calls of France, the European Union and China, which maintains good relations with both countries.
The confrontations officially resulted in 23 dead from Thai, of which nine soldiers, and 13 dead, of which five soldiers, on the Cambodian side. Over 138,000 Thai have left the risk areas, according to Thailand, and over 140,000 Cambodians did the same, according to Cambodia.
Thailand and Cambodia have been in a diplomatic conflict for decades on the drawing of the common border, established during the French Indochina, but the region had not known such an episode of violence in 2011.
Cambodia thus becomes the third country announcing that it will be the US President at the Nobel for Peace, after Pakistan made it last month, for its role in mediating the military conflict with India, which held between May 6 and 10.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also announced on July 8 that his country will nominate Trump at the Nobel Prize, for his efforts to mediate a Hamas armistice. Netanyahu handed him to the American leader, during a dinner at the White House a copy of the letter sent to the Nobel committee by which the nomination was made.
Trump believes that it is worth the Nobel Peace Prize
President Donald Trump has suggested on many times that he wants to be awarded with a Nobel for Peace and has complained that he has not obtained this prestigious distinction, as opposed to his predecessor Barack Obama.
Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, in the first year of his first term at the White House. However, the decision of the Nobel Committee was one marked by controversy and criticized in the years that followed, after the US leader authorized bombing in Yemen and US air blows in other countries.
Trump argues, among other things, that he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize due to the Abraham agreements that his administration has mediated and which led to a historical normalization of the links between Israel and two Arab countries: the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Subsequently, other countries with a predominantly Muslim population normalized their relationships with Israel, before its harsh response to the bloody attack committed by Hamas on its territory on October 7, 2023 to again inflame spirits in the Middle East.
Donald Trump has received several nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize over the years from supporters and Republican Congressmen.
