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The Norwegian Nobel Committee selects winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian news agency reported the Committee has announced that someone used a stolen identity and nominated the U.S President Donald Trump for the peace award. The agency quoted the statement of committee secretary Olav Njolstad that the involved person is the same element who was responsible for falsifying nominations in 2017. Njolstad wasn’t immediately available for comment, but he earlier refused to identify the person and said that Norwegian police have been informed. Njolstad said in a statement that they get a number of false nominations every year, but these kinds of nominations aren’t valid due to the peace committee is the only authority to select qualified nomination.

Njolstad also said that it is my first-time experience in discovering this example that someone is nominating someone by stealing the identity of another person. It is important that the Nobel Committee of Norway always keeps the names of candidate secret for 50 years. There are talented persons and professionals who can only nominate candidates for peace award, including parliament members, university professors, former recipients, and directors of peace research & international affairs institutes and it can go public with the names of a candidate. The manager of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Henrik Urdal informed The Associated Press in January that Trump had been nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize but his nomination had still a lack of strong academic justification.