Nobel Foundation says peace prize can’t be ‘passed on’ after Machado gives Trump her award

The Nobel Foundation reaffirmed that its peace prize can’t be “passed on” after laureate Maria Corina Machado gave President Donald Trump her award.

In a statement issued after Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, met with Trump and gifted him her award, the Nobel Foundation denounced the move without directly mentioning it.

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“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,” it wrote.

“A prize can therefore not, even symbolically,