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		</div><p>Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declined to say if he nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s assertion on Friday that Mr Abe had nominated him for the honour and sent him a copy of the letter has led to criticism in Japan.</p>
<p>Questioned in parliament about reports he had done so, Mr Abe said: &#8220;In light of the Nobel Committee&#8217;s policy of not disclosing recommenders and nominees for 50 years, I decline to comment.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, neither the prime minister nor his spokesman denied Mr Trump&#8217;s comment.</p>
<p>&#8220;I never said I didn&#8217;t&#8221; nominate him, Mr Abe said in response to a follow-up question by Yuichiro Tamaki, a politician for the opposition Democratic Party for the People.</p>
<p>Mr Tamaki said in a tweet that given the lack of progress on various issues with North Korea that he was concerned such a nomination would &#8220;send the wrong message to North Korea and the rest of international society&#8221;.</p>
<p>In responding to Mr Tamaki&#8217;s questions in parliament, Mr Abe praised Mr Trump, saying he &#8220;has been decisively responding towards resolving North Korea&#8217;s nuclear and missile problems, and last year he held historic US-North Korea summit talks&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Abe added that Mr Trump had also passed on to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Japan&#8217;s own concerns about abductions of Japanese citizens by Pyongyang, saying &#8220;he and the entire White House also actively cooperated in resolving the issue&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;I highly praise President Trump&#8217;s leadership,&#8221; Mr Abe said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s claim that Mr Abe had sent him a &#8220;beautiful copy&#8221; of a letter sent to the Nobel Committee could not be immediately verified.</p>
<p>The government&#8217;s top spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, echoed Mr Abe&#8217;s remarks in refusing further comment.</p>
<p>The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported on Sunday, citing unnamed government sources, that Mr Abe had nominated Mr Trump at the president&#8217;s request.</p>
<p>Former president Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, his first year in office, for laying out the US commitment to &#8220;seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons&#8221;.</p>
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