- Title: Donald Trump possible contender for 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
- Date: 29th September 2020
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE - JANUARY 20, 2017) (AGENCY POOL) U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP BEING SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT BY U.S. SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS TRUMP, HUGGING HIS FAMILY
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- Keywords: Nobel Peace Prize North Korea U.S. President Donald Trump
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- Country: USA
- Topics: Government/Politics,United States
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- Story Text: U.S. President Donald Trump has emerged as a Nobel Peace Prize hopeful following the nomination by a Norwegian lawmaker.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of parliament for the right-wing Progress Party nominated Trump after he helped broker a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
On August 13, the UAE and Bahrain signed agreements to establish formal ties with Israel, becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo, in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran.
Trump hosted the White House ceremony, capping a dramatic month when first the UAE and then Bahrain agreed to reverse decades of ill will without a resolution of Israel's dispute with the Palestinians.
The deals, known as Abraham Accords, denounced by the Palestinians, make them the third and fourth Arab states to take such steps toward normalising relations since Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
The back-to-back agreements marked an improbable diplomatic victory for Trump. He has spent his presidency forecasting deals on such intractable problems as North Korea's nuclear program only to find achievements elusive.
The real estate mogul and former TV personality was elected the 45th President in 2016 after defeating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Former President Barack Obama, a nemesis of Trump, won the Nobel Peace prize in 2009 just months into his first term in office.
Norway's Nobel Institute, which does not confirm or deny the names of any particular individuals or organisations nominated, said it had received nominations for 317 candidates this year, up from 301 in 2019. Of these 210 were individuals and 107 were organisations. It will announce the winner in October.
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