Global leaders accuse politicization in the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize
Vladimir Putin said that decisions by the Nobel Peace Committee have damaged the credibility of the prize and allowed it to lose its original mission.
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October 10, 2025 Hour: 10:03 pm
The awarding of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan coup leader María Corina Machado unleashed a wave of international reactions and criticism, particularly from Russia and the United States.
A group of leaders questioned the biased and political criteria of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. From Moscow, President Vladimir Putin said that the decision “has damaged the credibility of the prize”, recalling that this Nobel Prize “has been repeatedly awarded to people who have not done anything real for world peace”.
In contrast, he maintained that Trump “has tried to solve complex crises,” highlighting his active role in international diplomacy. “The Nobel Committee has lost the sense of its original mission. Peace should not be measured by political sympathies or ideological expediencies,” Putin said.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko agreed, for whom “the Nobel Committee did not award the peace prize, but a prize to those who are not interested in peace”. He pointed out that “Trump has done little for peace.
They (the Nobel Committee) have done a disservice to the peace processes. Everyone. Trump could be offended,” he said. White House Communications Director Stephen Chang said that for the Nobel Committee “politics is more important than peace itself,” regretting that the recognition did not go to President Donald Trump, who had requested to be considered for his mediation of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and for his participation in the temporary peace agreement in Gaza.
For his part, presidential adviser Steven Cheung said through his account on X that Trump “will continue to approve peace agreements, end wars and save lives,” despite not having been recognized.
President Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, who has played a significant role in White House communications with Venezuela’s constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, also did not welcome the decision. In the official’s opinion, the Nobel Peace Prize winner died years ago.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly regretted the decision of the Norwegian Committee, saying that “Trump deserves the Nobel”.
The head of government had already advanced the possibility of his nomination during a dialogue with the occupant of the White House months ago, after the US bombed Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities.
Now, as then, Netanyahu did not refer to the fact that Washington delivered $21 billion worth of military aid to Tel Aviv since October 2023, funds and supplies that allowed the occupation to attack the peoples of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq and Qatar.
Meanwhile, from Kiev, the leader of Volodymir Zelensky’s regime declared that Ukraine would nominate Trump for the Nobel Prize “if he achieves a ceasefire in the current conflict with Russia”.
However, the Ukrainian parliament rejected the resolution that sought to officially endorse the former president’s candidacy, obtaining only 132 votes in favor. Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton went so far as to claim that former President Barack Obama “did not deserve the prize” in 2009, while former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin expressed skepticism about awarding the prize to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for his “unilateral concessions to the West”
Author: HGV
Source: Agencias
