NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Politics 10:50 01.02.2024

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper reported, Ednews reports citing TASS.

The nomination was proposed by Abid Raja, Norway’s former minister of culture and the deputy chair of the Liberal Party.

"Over the past year, no one did more for peace and democracy in Europe and worldwide than Jens Stoltenberg," he explained his choice in an interview to VG.

The Nobel Peace Prize, according to the will of Alfred Nobel, is awarded to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." According to the last will of the Swedish industrialist, inventor and manufacturer, this prize, unlike other awards established in accordance with his will, is awarded not in Stockholm, but in Oslo. Nobel wrote that the decision to award the prize should be made by a committee of five people appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. By tradition, the members of the committee are mostly retired Norwegian politicians and former party leaders.

Recently, the more than a hundred-year-old wording has been interpreted quite broadly, which is why the decisions of the committee are often criticized. Laureates of the award in recent years have included politicians, human rights activists, political activists and humanitarian organizations with merits in a variety of fields.

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