‘Cannot be shared’: Nobel Committee says as Machado offers Peace Prize to Trump
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New York: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has made it clear that the Peace Prize it conferred cannot be ‘shared, revoked or transferred’, NDTV reported.
Nobel Committee’s statement follows Nobel Laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s announcement that she will give her prize to US President Donald Trump.
Ahead of the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize last year, Trump claimed that he was the deserving candidate crediting himself with stopping eight wars within eight months of his second tenure.
Meanwhile, Trump said that when Machado visits the US next week he will discuss her offer of giving her Nobel Prize to him.
‘I think it's very nice she wants to come in, and that's what I understand the reason is,’ he said.
In what appears to be an apparent response to this development, the Nobel Committee's statement said: ‘A Nobel Prize can neither be revoked, shared, nor transferred to others. Once the announcement has been made, the decision stands for all time.’
The new turn in the development comes days after the US forces disposed President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro's in a nightly raid.
Captured, Maduro was brought to the US to face law in alleged ‘narco-terror conspiracy’, alongside other charges.
After Maduro’s fall, Venezuela's vice president Delcy Rodriguez came in power.
Alongside projecting himself a right candidate for Nobel Peace Prize, Trump rebuked then US President Barack Obama for the peace Prize he won saying he ‘didn't do anything’.
About Machado's visit to the US next week, Trump said she will ‘pay her regards to our country, really to me, but you know I'm a representative of the country, nothing else’.