The Norwegian entity that awards the Nobel Peace Prize issued a statement this Sunday to clarify that, once the Nobel is awarded, it can't be transferred.
These statements about the non-transferability of the prize come after Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado allegedly gave her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump last week for having freed Venezuela from Maduro's narco-dictatorship.
The fact that the Foundation came out to clarify this issue suggests that it is concerned about awarding its prize to the president of the United States, even when numerous world leaders have already nominated Trump to be honored with this distinction. "One of the main missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration," the foundation said in a statement.
The Foundation's statement
"The Foundation defends Alfred Nobel's will and his 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. Therefore, a prize can't, not even symbolically, be transmitted or distributed further," the document says.
