“We mentioned tariffs, financial cooperation, and it served as preparation for his name with Prime Minister Støre. I can’t go into additional element concerning the content material of the dialog,” he added.
Trump’s Friday assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska might show to be the final word check for his Nobel Peace Prize case, as any breakthrough or misstep on the Ukraine battle would possible have an effect on his peacemaking credentials.
Whereas oscillating on who’s guilty for the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Trump has appeared to harden his rhetorical place on Putin in latest months.
Yearly, the Norwegian Nobel Committee selects laureates from lots of of nominees. Its 5 members are appointed by Norway’s parliament in step with the directions of Nineteenth-century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. Winners are introduced every October in Oslo.
A number of nations, together with Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia, have already nominated Trump for brokering peace agreements or ceasefires since he returned to workplace in January.
Trump has claimed credit for cooling tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan after skirmishes earlier this 12 months, and final week hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington to handle ending a long time of hostilities.