From the head of NATO to the president of Ukraine, many of the candidates for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize have been tainted by the war in Ukraine by Tuesday’s deadline without making them favorites.
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Several names published among the individuals and organizations proposed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee generally relate to the nearly year-long conflict in Ukraine or opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to the Nobel statute, the list of candidates is kept secret for at least 50 years. But thousands of patrons (parliamentarians and ministers of all countries, former laureates, professors of some universities, etc.) are free to reveal their “foal“. The price for 2023 will be announced in early October. Several hundred names are proposed every year, 343 in 2022.
“Guaranteeing future peace in Europe”.
Norway’s populist right-wing representative has thus hinted that he will nominate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has become a symbol of resistance against the Russian invasion that began on February 24, 2022, for the award.
The same deputy also presented the name of his compatriot Jens Stoltenberg, who, according to him, “he deserves the award for his exemplary work as NATO Secretary General during a difficult time for the alliance, for a brutal and unprovoked attack against a peaceful neighboring country.“. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also been nominated by the Senate President of Pakistan for peace efforts.”Before and during the Russia-Ukraine war“.
As well as opponents of Vladimir Putin’s regime, such as Alexei Navalny, an anti-corruption activist behind bars who was the victim of a poisoning attempt in Russia, and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was jailed after also surviving. , two poisonings. “We know today that the basis of this war is the Russian regime built on corruption and oppression.“, – assessed the Norwegian deputy who proposed Vladimir Kara-Murza’s candidacy.
this one”participates in the most important political struggle to end the war in Ukraine and ensure future peace in Europe“, he argued, citing the NTB agency.
Kremlin scratch hair
The two previous editions of the Nobel Prize have already given pride of place to criticism of the Moscow strongman. Last year, the prize went to a trio made up of the Russian NGO Memorial, which Russian justice ordered dissolved, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, and jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatsky.
“This award is not for Vladimir Putin (…), except that his government, like the government of Belarus, is an authoritarian government that oppresses human rights defenders.said the chairman of the Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen. At the awards ceremony, Memorial representative Jan Ratczynski condemned “The insane and criminal war of aggression against Ukraine“.
In 2021, another hair-raising Kremlin hair-trigger was journalist Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, who was honored with his Filipina colleague Maria Ressa, both of them acting as heralds of press freedom.
Environmental protection
Henrik Urdahl, director of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (Prio), considers it unlikely that the Nobel Committee will award a layer in 2023.Eurocentric“.
“I doubt there will be a third consecutive award, which will mean going to Russia“, he told AFP. “It was difficult for the committee to look beyond last year because the conflict in Ukraine was so large and dominant…but it is also important to focus on other international issues in other parts of the world.“, he added.
For environmentalists, the peace prize regularly appears among the latest speculations.
Norwegian Greens MP Lan Marie Berg announced on Tuesday that she had named two young climate activists: 20-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden, whose name has been circulating for years, and Ugandan Vanessa Nakate, 27.
Source: Le Figaro
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