Nobel Peace Prize officials have officially released a statement after Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado “presents” United States President Donald Trump with her award. Officials insist “the prize and laureate are inseparable.”
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After Trump ordered U.S. Special Forces to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on January 3 — jailing them in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center on narcoterrorism charges — Machado said she and the rest of the opposition “certainly” wanted to share her Nobel Peace Prize with Trump.
Nobel Peace Prize Officials Speak After María Corina Machado ‘Present’s Donald Trump With Her 2025 Award Following His Nicolás Maduro Capture
Soon after Machado’s statement, she revealed that she “presented” Trump with her medal during their meeting at the White House on January 15. On January 16, Nobel Peace Prize officials released a statement, seemingly addressing the matter. On the officials Nobel Peace Prize website, the statement was titled, “The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable.” The statement read:
“The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize itself – the honour and recognition – remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation designated as the laureate by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate receives two central symbols of the prize: a gold medal and a diploma. In addition, the prize money is awarded separately. Regardless of what may happen to the medal, the diploma, or the prize money, it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize. Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
A laureate cannot share the prize with others, nor transfer it once it has been announced. A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not see it as their role to engage in day-to-day commentary on Peace Prize laureates or the political processes that they are engaged in. The prize is awarded on the basis of the laureate’ contributions by the time that the committee’s decision is taken.
The Committee does not comment on laureates’ subsequent statements, decisions, or actions. Any ongoing assessments or choices made by laureates must be understood as their own responsibility.
There are no restrictions in the statutes of the Nobel Foundation on what a laureate may do with the medal, the diploma, or the prize money. This means that a laureate is free to keep, give away, sell, or donate these items.”
On X, the Nobel Peace Prize account shared a link to the full statement and captioned the post:
“One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,’ and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed.”
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