Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Melezhko announced on Wednesday that he will formally nominate US President-elect Donald Trump for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in October to a group of survivors of the American atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Quoted from Mereshko, Ukrainian state media “Ukrinform” explained He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East during President Trump's first term, particularly his signing of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He said he believed he deserved it. He also credited Trump with making “tremendous contributions” to the defense of Ukraine.
“First of all, Donald Trump helped create the so-called Abraham Accords during his first presidential term,” he said. “These agreements have strengthened peace in the Middle East and contributed to stability throughout the region.”
“Secondly, in my opinion, he made a significant contribution to the fight against Russian aggression and strengthened the military power of Ukraine,” Melezhko continued. “In fact, Trump became the first U.S. president to begin providing military and technical assistance to Ukraine.”
The lawmaker, who chairs Ukraine's parliament's foreign policy committee, said that when Trump returned to the White House in January, he said he wanted to “appease the aggressor” (pressure Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia). He expressed his hope that this would be avoided. Russia has invaded Ukraine and launched a “special operation” to oust democratically elected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in 2022, resulting in strongman Vladimir Putin gaining sovereignty over large parts of Ukrainian territory. insisted.
Mr. Mereshko is a member of Mr. Zelensky's party, Servant of the People, named after the TV comedy that made Mr. Zelensky, a professional actor, famous. He expressed optimism that President Trump would help bring about peace in Ukraine, saying that in his first term, the president-elect would dramatically increase access to Western Europe, especially the Russian market, on business that enriches Russia. It acknowledged pressure to abandon the now-defunct Nord Stream 2 project, which was supposed to be expanded to 2020. This is the share of natural gas in Western Europe that President Trump has authorized. Outgoing President Joe Biden lifted sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 project in summer 2021, opening the door to a full-scale invasion.
When you talk to Kiev IndependentMelezhko acknowledged that the nomination was also an “opportunity to get President Trump's attention and help Ukraine survive.”
Mr. Zelensky maintained a friendly relationship with Mr. Trump during Mr. Zelensky's first term, which overlapped with Mr. Zelensky's first two years in office. Nevertheless, many in the mainstream media have questioned President Trump's lavish spending on arms and other defenses for Ukraine without emphasizing a diplomatic solution to Biden's policy on the Ukraine war. Therefore, I am trying to portray the two as if they are in conflict. Zelenskiy appeared to dispel reports that he would not welcome Trump's return by becoming one of the first world leaders to congratulate him after the November election.
Following Trump's victory this year, Zelenskiy announced he had had a “great meeting” with the president-elect and expressed full support for Trump's Ukraine peace plan.
“In general, it was very important for Ukraine and all of Europe to consistently hear the words of the then 45th president of the United States about 'peace through strength,'” Zelenskiy said. “And if this becomes the policy principle of the 47th president of the United States, America and the entire world will undoubtedly benefit from it.”
In a conversation with Breitbart News in August, President Trump said even before he took office that he wanted to bring peace to Ukraine.
President Trump explained, “I know the leaders of both countries.'' “I know President Putin very well. I want to see the death stop. There is death, there is destruction. They are destroying the entire fabric of certain parts of the world. I want to negotiate and make it happen. I am.
“If you look at the heritage of this country, the cities are pretty much destroyed,” Trump continued. “They're flattened. They've been completely flattened. … The country is devastated. So I want to solve it, and I'll be able to solve it. . And I want to do that before I become the next president and get to the White House.”
Trump has been discussed many times as a potential Nobel Peace Prize nominee and even winner.
In 2018, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said that Trump “should win the Nobel Peace Prize” for his efforts to improve diplomacy with communist North Korea. Trump became the first US president to set foot in North Korea in 2019 and met with dictator Kim Jong Un three times before talks with North Korea stalled.
In 2020, Trump was officially nominated for the Peace Prize by several European lawmakers. Magnus Jacobsson of the Swedish Christian Democrats nominated Trump for the award in recognition of the Trump administration's efforts to improve relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Norwegian politician Christian Tybring Gedde also nominated Trump for the Abraham Accords in the same year.
In November of the same year, 14 European MEPs released a letter nominating Trump for his “courage and dedication to the cause of peace in the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Korean Peninsula.”
