MPs want to nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
30 September 2025 00:37
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered a draft resolution with a proposal to appeal to the Nobel Committee to nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
The relevant document – “Draft Resolution on the Appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the Nobel Committee on the Nomination of US President Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize” No. 14088 – has been published on the parliament’s website.
Among the initiators are MPs from the For the Future (Anna Skorokhod, Anatoliy Urbanskyi, Taras Batenko) and Restoring Ukraine (Oleksandr Yurchenko, Anatoliy Burmich) parliamentary groups.
The text of the resolution is currently not available on the Verkhovna Rada’s website. The document was submitted to the parliamentary leadership for consideration.
It should be noted that earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated: “Ukraine is ready to support the idea of nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if his actions contribute to ending the war unleashed by the Russian Federation.
It is worth noting that in order to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump will definitely need to achieve some form of truce in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
It should be added that in August, Pakistan announced that it would recommend Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to help resolve the conflict with India, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in July that he himself had nominated Trump for the prize.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize, which has been awarded since 1901, is the most politically charged and controversial of all the Nobel Prizes. Unlike the other categories, where the winners are selected by Swedish committees, the Peace Prize is awarded by a five-member Norwegian committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament.
The history of the prize is full of paradoxes and scandals. Barack Obama received the award in 2009 just nine months after taking office, which caused criticism even among his supporters. At the same time, Mahatma Gandhi, a symbol of peaceful resistance, never won the award, although he was nominated five times. Among the most controversial decisions is the awarding of the prize to Henry Kissinger in 1973 during the Vietnam War, which led to the resignation of two committee members in protest.
Only certain categories of people are eligible to nominate candidates: heads of state and government, members of parliaments, judges of international courts, professors of political science and international law, and previous laureates. Interestingly, self-nomination is prohibited, and the names of the nominees are kept secret for 50 years. Each year, about 200-300 nominations are received, among which there may be both serious candidates and openly populist applications.
Trump has already been nominated for the prize three times by various individuals, including a Norwegian MP in 2020 for his role in normalizing relations between Israel and Arab countries. His long-standing desire to win the Nobel Prize has become a well-known fact, especially since his predecessor Obama won it. This creates additional intrigue around the current nomination from Netanyahu, who clearly understands the psychological significance of such a gesture for the American leader.
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