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The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó posted a video on his Facebook page titled “Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump,” in which he explains that Hungary supports the initiative to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the pioneers of the Abraham Accords, including former US President Donald Trump.
“Hungary highly appreciates the stabilizing role of the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, including the signing of peace agreements with Israel,” Péter Szijjártó said in Dubai on Wednesday.
The statement marked the first public normalization of relations between an Arab country and Israel since that of Jordan in 1994. The Abraham Accords are intended to provide a framework for new political and economic cooperation between Tel Aviv and some Gulf monarchies, as a counterweight to Turkey and Iran.
Szijjártó also expressed his hope that the spirit of the peace agreements will continue to live on, and that new agreements will be reached along these lines.
Recently, as we have also reported, there was news about Trump possibly visiting Hungary, according to information by The Guardian. However, there has been no news on the visit since then. Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás said at Wednesday’s government briefing that he had no information on whether the former president would come or not, but added that they were not in charge of organizing the meeting.
This is not the first time Trump’s name was mentioned in connection to the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2020, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a far-right Norwegian politician, put Trump’s name forward for the 2021 prize, also citing the president’s role in the peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. It is worth noting that nominations from heads of state or politicians serving at a national level are accepted.
Featured image: US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2019. They are joined by National Security Advisor John Bolton (on the right) and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó (on the left). Photo by Szilárd Koszticsák/MTI