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Ukraine war dominates Nobel year again
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In this file photo taken on February 25, 2022 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attends the opening of a NATO video summit on Russia's invasion of the Ukraine at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AFP/Kenzo Tribouillard)
F
rom NATO's secretary general to the Ukrainian president, the war in Ukraine dominates the publicly known names submitted by Tuesday's deadline for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
The list of nominees submitted to the committee is kept secret for at least 50 years, in line with Nobel statutes.
But those eligible to nominate people -- including former laureates, lawmakers and cabinet ministers from any country in the world, and some university professors -- are free to reveal the name of the person or organisation they have proposed.
Most of the names that have been publicly disclosed so far are involved in the nearly year-long conflict that has been raging in Ukraine, or opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Experts warn that the Norwegian Nobel Committee may be tempted to look in another direction, however, when it announces this year's prize in October.
An MP from Norway's Green Party, Lan Marie Berg, said on Tuesday she had nominated Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg -- believed to have been on the list for several years running -- and her Ugandan counterpart Vanessa Nakate.
Others known to have been nominated include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proposed by the speaker of Pakistan's upper house of parliament, for his "untiring" efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.
