Moldovan President Maia Sandu rejected a proposal to nominate her for the Nobel Peace Prize on Feb. 5, saying the honor belongs to Ukrainian prisoners of war and others who risk or give their lives for peace.
Sandu’s remarks came on the same day Ukraine secured the return of 157 prisoners of war from Russian captivity in its first exchange with Moscow in nearly five months.
“I am grateful that people are paying attention to our country and value our courage and resilience, but many people have been nominated for this prize,” Sandu told Moldovan broadcaster TV8.
“Today, I was watching Ukrainian (prisoners of war) who returned home from Russia, and these are the people who deserve the Peace Prize.”
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Sandu said that the true heroes are those who sacrifice their lives or put themselves in danger for peace in their own countries, adding that she hopes peace will come to the region as soon as possible.
Let the world know that in my great humility, I’m also agreeing to decline any nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Anyone who is thinking of nominating me for the Nobel Peace Prize should nominate WoodScientist instead.
Trump: as you should. Now give that prize to me!
This is good but does the prize even mean anything after the previous recipient begged for war and Obomber got one?
Yeah I was gonna say, swag bag Machato ripped the mask away. This shit is just a prize we give to the empire’s dogs.
Maia Sandu is one of a kind
Watched an interview once of her. She seems like a real States person, doing her best for the people.
Love to give a President the Nobel Prize inside the first six weeks on the job.
Remember how well that worked out for Obama?
The largely clandestine effort, profiled in a New York Times report and a forthcoming book by Newsweek’s Daniel Klaidman, highlights a remarkable transformation for a man who campaigned four years ago as an anti-war Senator, former law professor and defender of Constitutional due process. He pushed for an end to the use of torture on terror suspects, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, and for trying detainees in federal courts. For those efforts he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yet over the past three and a half years, Obama has sat quietly “at the helm of a top secret ‘nominations’ process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical,” according to the Times. He personally vetted names on a “kill list” of targets, authorizing dozens of drone strikes even in cases with only vague and inconclusive evidence about who’s really on the ground, according to the report. Neither the evidence against the suspects nor the suspects’ identities is available for public scrutiny.
