Venezuela opposition chief says she introduced Donald Trump together with her Nobel Peace Prize at White House assembly | EUROtoday

Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado says she introduced her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump when the pair met Thursday for a closed-door lunch.

“I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans,” she instructed reporters after the assembly, which marks the primary time the pair have met in-person.

Machado didn’t say if the president had accepted the award, which he has lengthy coveted.

The assembly comes lower than two weeks after U.S. navy forces captured ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his spouse from their house in Caracas.

Vice president Delcy Rodriguez has since been sworn in because the interim president, and Trump says that he’s coping with her, quite than Machado.

Prior to Thursday’s assembly Machado praised Trump publicly and had introduced the intention to share her award with him, which she received for her efforts to show Venezuela right into a democracy, within the hopes of touchdown on the U.S. president’s good aspect.

However, the organizers of the Nobel Peace Prize beforehand instructed Machado that the award “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” and that the choice to award a Nobel Prize is “final and stands for all time.”

Machado’s win in October was reported to have sparked resentment for Trump, who has lengthy expressed curiosity in profitable the prize and has at occasions linked it to diplomatic achievements, regardless that she has been effusive in her help and devoted her win to him.

Trump mentioned earlier this month that being introduced with the prize “would be a great honor.”

“Well, I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to saying hello to her, and I’ve heard that she wants to do that. That would be a great honor,” he instructed Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“I did put out eight wars, eight and a quarter because, you know, Thailand and Cambodia started going at it again.”

However, the president has beforehand mentioned Machado doesn’t have the help to win an election in Venezuela, ought to one happen.

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