The Norwegian Peace Movement held a press conference in Oslo on Tuesday to voice its opposition to the decision to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, whom participants accused of advocating a military intervention in her own country.
Meanwhile, the press conference that Machado was scheduled to hold on Tuesday at the Nobel Institute in Oslo at 1:00 p.m. local time (12:00 GMT), on the eve of receiving the Peace Prize, has been postponed.
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Diosdado Cabello, secretary-general of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party (PSUV), criticized the award on Tuesday, calling it an “auction” handed out “to the highest bidder.” “Regarding Oslo, I don’t know. We have no involvement in that; we don’t participate in that auction,” he said.
#Cartoon | Norwegians to protest Nobel Peace Prize for Machado
The humanitarian organizations maintain that Corina Machado’s selection violates the original mandate of the prize’s creator, which stipulated that the award should go to people who promote disarmament, the peaceful… pic.twitter.com/soSdKFecgK
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