Sri Lanka, Feb. 1 -- A Republican lawmaker has nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his 'historic' policy in the Middle East.

New York representative Claudia Tenney said in a statement that she decided to nominate the former president for his role in the Abraham Accords treaty, which formally normalised relations between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel.

'Donald Trump was instrumental in facilitating the first new peace agreements in the Middle East in almost 30 years,' she claimed in a statement posted on her website.

'For decades, bureaucrats, foreign policy 'professionals', and international organisations insisted that additional Middle East peace agreements were impossible without a resolution to the I...