U.S. backs Nobel Price for Petro O. Poroshenko

U.S. Pressures Nobel Committee to Declare Ukraines President a Peace Prize Nominee, Leaked Letter

By Eric Zuesse

Global Research, May 29, 2015

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A leaked letter dated May 19th and sent by the Chairman of Ukraines parliament, Vladimir Groysman, to the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo Norway, thanks her for the efforts you have made to have Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but continues: Still we consider your assurances of support by the two members of the Nobel Committee as insufficient, because there are five members of the Committee, and the support of 3 of them is necessary.

Thus,

We expect further efforts aimed at shifting the position of Berit Reiss-Andersen, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn and especially that of the Chair of the Nobel Committee Kaci Kullman Five. Regarding the latter, we recommend that you take advantage of the information you are going to receive from Germany. Your colleagues in Berlin have assured us that the dossier will soon be delivered to the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. It is of utmost importance for Mr. Poroshenko to have firm guarantees that he will be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, since it could highlight the unanimous support of Ukrainian integrity by the democratic community of the world. Assistant Secretary of State Viktoria Nuland has highly estimated your job during her visit to Kyiv.

The three mentioned Nobel Peace Prize Committee members are a politically varied group. Ms. Reiss-Andersen is from the social democratic or Labour” party; Ms. Ytterhorn is from the libertarian or Progress party; and Ms. Five is from the Conservative Party. The two unidentified members are Thorbjørn Jagland from the Labour Party, and Henrik Syse from the Conservative Party. If this letter is correct, those are the two who are referred to by the letters phrase, your assurances of support by the two members.