FRENCH JOURNALIST SAVAGES TRUMP’S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINATION

The nomination of US President Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize is a provocation for the defenders of nature, human rights and peaceful coexistence, French journalist Michel Taupin said on Friday (Saturday, September 12, 2020 in Manila).

In statements to Prensa Latina, the spokesman for the Cuba Yes France friendship association recalled the US president's attacks on multilateralism, including the withdrawal from the Paris Agreements on climate change and the Vienna deal on Iran's nuclear program. He also mentioned Washington's withdrawal from United Nations agencies such as UNESCO and the Human Rights Council, and the attacks on the World Health Organization (WHO).

“We cannot forget Trump's support for Israel's apartheid against the Palestinian people and his decision to relaunch the nuclear arms race,” Taupin said on the occasion of the Nobel nomination of the US president promoted by Norwegian rightist lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde.

According to the French journalist, the proposal to award a politician who insulted the memory of the icon of the struggles against discrimination and who deserved the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, former South African President Nelson Mandela, is not a surprise, because it comes from the extreme right wing and from a lawmaker who is known for his anti-immigrant stance. Taupin denounced Trump's aggressiveness in Latin America, with his escalation against the peoples of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and his support for corrupt governments and fascist coups d'état. In Cuba's case, he condemned the tightening of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade, which he described as genocidal.

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