Norway’s Nobel Committee issued a pointed reminder on Friday that its Peace Prize remains “inseparably linked” to the laureate it selects.

The Nobel Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation that won it, though the medal can be given away, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, a day after last year's winner gave her medal to U.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado isn't the first Nobel Prize winner to give their medal away.

Although Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it is not unprecedented. Rules state that Machado could give away her actual medal but not the honour itself.

The Nobel Committee has said the prize cannot be transferred, but it has been sold in a few auctions over the award’s history.

María Corina Machado’s charm offensive in the Trump White House, complete with a shiny Nobel medal in an elegant frame, is part of a recalibrated effort by the leader of Venezuela’s opposition to reclaim the narrative about the country’s transformation.

It comes as he threatens NATO allies who oppose his attempts to take over Greenland.