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US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he should be the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this year, for the role he claims to play in solving several wars in the world, AFP reports.
Trump, who has long wants to win the distinction he has obtained and Democrat Barack Obama in 2009, pleaded for himself one day after announcing a peace plan in 20 points for the Gaza strip.
“Will you receive the Nobel Prize? Of course no. They will give someone who did absolutely nothing,” said the Republican President of the US, on Tuesday, in a speech in front of the American generals and admirals for a meeting in Quantico.
“It would be a big insult to our country, I tell you. I don't want it, I want the country to receive it,” added Donald Trump.
In Tuesday's speech, the American leader repeated a recent statement that seven wars had returned to the White House in January.
He argues that if the plan he presented with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Gaza strip at the White House will work “We will have eight, eight in eight months”.
Hamas has not yet offered an answer to the plan.
Trump says he “ended seven wars”
About a week ago, Donald Trump said at the UN General Assembly that he “concluded seven wars”, mentioning “Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Congo and Rwanda (…), Pakistan and India, Israel, Egypt and Ethiopia and Armenia and Azerbaidjan”.
CNN noted at that time that the wars in which Trump has so far invested the most efforts to conclude, the conflict of Israel in Gaza and Russia in Ukraine, continue to ravage, despite countless deadlines, threats and promises that the US President has made to obtain the fire.
AFP also notes that in many of the cases mentioned by the US leader the statements are partial or inaccurate.
The Nobel Committee in Norway said it cannot be influenced by Trump's campaign.
“Of course, we notice that there is a lot of attention from the media towards certain candidates,” Kristian Berg Harpviken recently told AFP. “But this has no impact on the discussions that take place within the committee,” he added.
