Valentin Naumescu: If Trump will receive the Nobel Peace Prize, no one will be able to say that there are no arguments
Professor Valentin Naumescu, named by Nicușor Dan Presidential Councilor for Foreign Affairs, says that there are arguments for US President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, because he “acted politically in the direction of stopping wars in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.”
In a message published on Wednesday on Facebook, Naumescu-who will take over the position of presidential counselor from November 1-says that if President Donald Trump will receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year, no one will be able to say that there are no arguments in this regard.
“For democratic Europe, it is essential to maintain the US alliance within a powerful NATO”
He believes that there will be even more arguments than in 2009, when President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in the first year of his first term. Naumescu says that the President of the US at that time acknowledged “with frankness” that “it is not about the recognition of my achievements in the direction of peace, but an incentive to act in the future in this regard.”
“In recent months, President Trump has acted politically in the direction of stopping wars in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It is possible that by October 10, the date of announcing the winner, to announce the release of Israeli hostages by the Hamas terrorists, the cessation of the war in Gaza, the new Palestinian The state of Israel, even if reconciliation will be difficult and slow.
The project of peace agreement proposed by President Donald Trump is correct and welcome and opens a possible way to conclude this war with Hamas's criminal attack on Israel, on October 7, 2023 ”, says Naumescu.
He also says that also about the Ukraine war, especially after the Washington meeting on August 18 of President Trump with President Zelenski and European leaders who accompanied the Ukrainian President, “I felt the improvement of US-Ukraine relations and the return of transatlantic relations to the level of the West Transatlantic, valid after 1945 ”.
“For the EU and generally for democratic Europe, but in particular and especially for Romania, it is essential to maintain the alliance with the US in a powerful and credible NATO as well as the functionality of the transatlantic partnership, on multiple plans: strategic, political, military, technological, intelligence, academic, cultural,” adds human mobility.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be appointed on Friday, October 10th.
Trump says he “ended seven wars”
A week ago, Donald Trump said that “it would be a big insult to the US” not to receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
“Will you receive the Nobel Prize? Of course no. They will give someone who did absolutely nothing. It would be a big insult to our country, I tell you. I do not want it, I want the country to receive it,” said the Republican President of the US, in a speech before the American generals and admirals summoned for a meeting.
Donald Trump also claimed at the UN General Assembly that he “concluded seven wars – Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Congo and Rwanda (…), Pakistan and India, Israel, Egypt and Ethiopia and Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
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 noted that in many of the cases mentioned by the US leader the statements are partial or inaccurate.
The Nobel Committee in Norway has transmitted that 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. But this has no impact on the discussions that take place within the Committee,” Kristian Berg Harpviken recently told AFP.
