Stere spoke about Trump's repeated explanations of the Nobel Prize award process.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere said that he had repeatedly explained to his American counterpart Donald Trump the impossibility of the Norwegian authorities influencing the decisions of the Nobel Committee on awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. He told Bloomberg about this on January 19, commenting on the letter from the American leader.

"As for the Nobel Peace Prize, I have clearly explained to Trump several times what is already well known, namely that the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee," Stere said.

He also stressed that the Norwegian government has no influence on this issue.

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On the same day, Trump stated that he no longer felt obliged to think exclusively about the world, since he had not been awarded the Nobel Prize.

The head of the Venezuelan opposition, Maria Corina Machado, announced on January 15 that she had awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the American president. Also on the official website of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, after Machado's public statement, it was reported that the Nobel Peace Prize, which had already been awarded, could not be transferred to Trump, according to the committee's rules.

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