Trump for Nobel Peace Prize? Cambodia nominates US president for ending Thai border clash
US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Cambodia for helping broker a ceasefire with Thailand. — AFP pic
Friday, 08 Aug 2025 3:03 PM MYT
PHNOM PENH, Aug 8 — Cambodia’s prime minister said he nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, crediting the US president with “visionary and innovative diplomacy” that ended border clashes with Thailand.
Five days of hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand killed at least 43 people last month as a territorial dispute boiled over into cross-border combat.
A truce began last week after phone calls from Trump, as well as mediation from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim – chair of the Asean regional bloc – and a delegation of Chinese negotiators.
A letter from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee said he wished to nominate Trump “in recognition of his historic contributions in advancing world peace”.
“President Trump’s extraordinary statesmanship – marked by his commitment to resolving conflicts and preventing catastrophic wars through visionary and innovative diplomacy – was most recently demonstrated by his decisive role in brokering an immediate and unconditional ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand,” the letter said.
“This timely intervention, which averted a potentially devastating conflict, was vital in preventing great loss of lives and paved the pay towards the restoration of peace.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not publish the list of nominees for the prize.
However, a list of candidates is set by January 31 and the announcement is generally made the following October.
Tens of thousands of people can offer a nomination to the Nobel committee, including lawmakers, ministers, certain university professors, former laureates and members of the committee themselves.
Mentioning the prestigious award has become a sign of diplomatic goodwill for some foreign leaders towards Trump, who has touted his deal-making credentials as a broker of global peace.
Trump has already been nominated for the prize by Pakistan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Cambodia and Thailand were both facing eye-watering US tariffs on their exports when Trump intervened in the conflict, the deadliest to consume their border region in more than a decade.
They secured reduced levies of 19 percent last week, avoiding the high 36 percent rate he had threatened both with. — AFP
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The most-contentious award for Nobel Peace Prize was the one given to Yasser Arafat who was then the leader of the.Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1994. He shared the prize with Issac PMs Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres for their work on the Oslo Accords, an integral part of the peace process between Palestine and Issac. However, many critics noted that while Arafat was head of Fatah, the PLO group engaged in acts of terrorism.
ReplyDeleteNote: Yasser Arafat said NO to all settlement offers in Oslo and Camp David (2000).
They should have taken the Prize back.
Here is a 2002 report from The Guardian of the Truth, a favourite staple of this blog, second only to Al Jezebel:
Arafat didn’t negotiate; he just kept saying NO (to peace)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/23/israel3
Mfer, don't just do c&p for ur easy fart!
DeleteDo the proper research to prove yr own lie lah.
Game?
The Art of the Deal...wakakakakaka
ReplyDeleteI love this remark:
ReplyDeleteHe seems to think in terms of generations and hesitantly predicts that only "80 years" after 1948 will the Palestinians be historically ready for a compromise. By then, most of the generation that experienced the catastrophe of 1948 at first hand will have died; there will be "very few 'salmons' around who still want to return to their birthplaces to die.
Pity he didn't say Gullible Guppies....ha3