U.S. Pressures Nobel Committee to Declare Ukraine’s President a Peace Prize Nominee,
Leaked Letter
A leaked letter
dated May 19th and sent by the Chairman of Ukraine’s 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