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WASHINGTON (AP) — The organization that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize is throwing chilly water on divulge of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado giving her latest award to President Donald Trump.
Once the Nobel Peace Prize is announced, it’ll’t be revoked, transferred or shared with others, the Norwegian Nobel Institute said in a transient statement on Friday.
“The choice is final and stands for all time,” it said.
The statement comes after Machado said she’d like to give or portion the prize with Trump, who oversaw the a hit U.S. operation to capture authoritarian Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. He goes thru drug trafficking charges in Unique York.
“I for accelerate wish to personal the skill to in my thought divulge him that we salvage — the Venezuelan of us, on fable of right here’s a prize of the Venezuelan of us — for accelerate desire to, to give it to him and portion it with him,” Machado informed Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday. “What he has done is historical. It’s a gargantuan step in opposition to a democratic transition.”
Machado dedicated the prize to Trump, alongside with the of us of Venezuela, shortly after it became announced. Trump has coveted and has openly campaigned for winning the Nobel Prize himself since his return to place of work.
In phrases of governing Venezuela after Maduro’s capture, though, Trump has as much as now backed somebody else: performing President Delcy Rodríguez, who served as vp below Maduro.
He’s called Machado a “very nice lady” but said she doesn’t currently personal the give a boost to interior Venezuela to manipulate. He informed Hannity on Thursday that Machado plans to chat over with subsequent week and referred to a skill Peace Prize providing as a “gigantic honor.”
A advisor for Machado did no longer at as soon as reply to a message searching for comment.