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http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/nineteen-countries-tu...
The Nobel Committee has confirmed that nineteen countries have declined invitations to attend the Peace Price ceremony in Norway on 10 December, a rise on the usual number of declines. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to Chinese prisoner of conscience Liu Xiaobo.
The 19 countries that have declined to attend according to the Committee are Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sudan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Vietnam.
Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia represent already half of the Muslim countries. Cuba, Venezuela and Vietnam are traditional enemies of Israel. Some may boycott, some may not, but these countries are major human rights violator and don't feel comfortable with honouring a Chinese dissident.
Who knows? Next year, it might be one of their dissidents!
jose (not verified)
10 December, 2010 - 08:29
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Here is the list of NGOs that have appealed to the UN mockery of Human Rights Commission to participate to the Nobel Peace Price Ceremony:
- United Nations Watch, Switzerland
- World Movement for Democracy
- Associazone TicinoTibet, Switzerland
- Center for Youth and Democracy, Somalia
- Vietnamese League for Human Rights, Switzerland
- Committee for Peace and Development Advocacy, Liberia
- SOS Racisme, France
- Collectif Urgence Darfour
- Society for Threatened Peoples, Germany
- Institute of International Social Development, India
- Consorcio Desarrollo y Justicia, A.C., Venezuela
- Director, Fondation Peter Hesse (www.solidarity.org), Germany
- International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org), United States
- Forum Human Rights, Germany
- Association of World Citizens, Switzerland
- Public Verdict Foundation, Russia
- Mothers and Women against Repression (MAR por Cuba)
- Charitable Foundation ROKADA, Ukraine
- International Union of Notaries (U.I.N.L.)
- Directorio Democratico Cubano
- The Cuban American National Foundation, United States
- Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations, Switzerland
- Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
- Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, United States
We note the absence of otherwise very vocal NGOs, such as Amnes(t)y International.