Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday called the withdrawal of the invitation to the Russian ambassador to this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, “a victory of humanism.”
“A victory for humanism,” reacted the spokesman for the Ukrainian ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, on the social network Facebook, after the Nobel Foundation backtracked and withdrew the invitation to the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus.
Nikolenko also said he hoped a “similar decision” would be made at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
The Nobel Foundation, in charge of awarding the Nobel prizes, retracted this Saturday the decision to invite “all ambassadors” to the award ceremony, after receiving “strong reactions” to the invitation to diplomats from Russia and Belarus.
“We have decided to repeat the exception to the usual practice of last year, that is, we will not invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm,” says a statement released this Saturday on its website.
Last year, this body decided not to invite the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus because of the war in Ukraine, as well as the ambassador of Iran, the latter due to the harsh repression of the popular protest movement in favor of women’s rights. women.
The ceremony takes place every year in Stockholm on December 10, the day on which the winners of the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics receive their prizes from King Carl XVI Gustaf, followed by a gala dinner that brings together about 1,200 guests. .
On the same day, a separate event for the Nobel Peace Prize is organized in Oslo, to which all ambassadors present in Norway are invited, without exception.
Source: TSF
