The Norwegian Nobel Committee has dismissed Donald Trump’s lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, stressing that campaigns and media noise have no influence on its decision-making.

Trump, 79, has repeatedly said he “deserves” the award, claiming credit for ending six wars since returning to the White House in January. Yet conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine which he has vowed to resolve remain ongoing.

“Of course, we do notice that there is a lot of media attention towards particular candidates,” the committee’s secretary Kristian Berg Harpviken told AFP in Oslo. “But that really has no impact on the discussions. The committee considers each nominee on his or her own merits.”

This year’s laureate will be announced on October 10, chosen from 338 individuals and organisations nominated before the January 31 deadline just 11 days after Trump took office.

“To be nominated is not necessarily a great achievement. The great achievement is to become a laureate,” Harpviken said, noting that thousands worldwide are eligible to submit names.

Trump has pointed to backing from foreign leaders including Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev. But experts in Norway say his pressure campaign is likely to backfire.

“This type of pressure usually turns out to be counter-productive,” said Halvard Leira, research director at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). “If the committee were to give the prize to Trump now, it would obviously be accused of kowtowing.”

The committee, appointed by Norway’s parliament but independent of the government, has in the past ignored political sensitivities. In 2010 it awarded the Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo despite warnings from Oslo, prompting years of frozen relations with Beijing.

With Norway strongly attached to multilateralism a principle often at odds with Trump’s “America First” policy analysts see little chance of his candidacy succeeding.

As three Nobel historians wrote in an August op-ed: “The members of the Nobel Committee would have to have lost their minds.”