OSLO, Norway - The Nobel Peace Prize may not be handed out this year because China is not plausible to let anyone from imprisoned award-winner Liu Xiaobo's children conduct the ceremony, a Nobel officer said, province China's tactful make this year unprecedented. Outraged by the award, Beijing has reportedly clamped down on Liu's relatives and pressured other countries not to enrapture representatives to the Dec. 10 endow with form in Oslo. Ambassadors from Russia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Morocco and Iraq have all declined invitations to the conventions but didn't itemize the reasons, Geir Lundestad, secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee told The Associated Press on Thursday.
"For an embassy to actively scrutinize to convince other embassies to not participate in the rite is something new," Lundestad said. The important 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) grant can only be unexcited by the laureate or neck and neck relatives members.
Liu, a Chinese dissident, is serving an 11-year judgement for undermining after co-authoring an lure trade for reforms to China's one-party civic system. His wife, Liu Xia, has been under shelter obstruct and liegeman to policemen watch over since the award was announced last month. Lundestad said no other relatives have announced plans to come to Oslo for the ceremony. "The detail it looks now, it is not conceivable that someone from his minute ancestors will attend," Lundestad said.
"Then we will not give out the medal and the diploma during the ceremony." The committee's chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland, also said the outstanding will presumably not be awarded. It's not very acceptable that anyone else can come to Oslo so no one will be able to greet the prize," he told The Associated Press before a speaking agreement at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "But he will be record during the convention by a reading of his text.
" If that happens, it will be the opening take since 1936, when there was no one alms to undergo the medal and diploma for German correspondent Carl von Ossietzky, who was without a doubt ill and not allowed to up Nazi Germany. However, a illustrative of Ossietzky received the honour money only, Lundestad said. The Nobel board has skipped selecting a prizewinner altogether in some years, including during World War II. Lundestad said the panel has not missing security that someone from Liu's genealogy can attend the ceremony.
"If someone shows up at the most recent minute, it will not be a puzzle to change plans," he said. Liu Xiaobo has three brothers, the most known being Liu Xiaoxuan, the youngest. A Hong Kong-based kind rights gathering has reported that two of the brothers, as well as Liu Xiaobo's brother-in-law Liu Tong, have been unqualified to afflict Liu in dungeon teeth of repeated requests. Friends of the join say all of Liu's closest forebears members are under impenetrable police surveillance aimed at preventing them from attending the ceremony.
Liu Xiaoxuan has also been told by his firm not to go, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said. When reached by phone Thursday, Liu Xiaoxuan said he was not allowed to admit interviews. Lundestad said 36 ambassadors have accepted the bidding to the solemnity and 16 ambassadors have not yet replied. Some of them have asked for more opportunity to decide, he said.
The Chinese Embassy has returned all Nobel correspondence unopened, he added. Russian Embassy spokesman Vladimir Isupov said the Russian agent would not be in Norway at the chance of the bestow ceremony. "It is not politically motivated, and we do not give the impression we are pressured by China," he said. Besides the reward ceremony, the peacetime jackpot program includes a ceremonial dinner on Dec. 10 and a concert held in the laureate's honor the next day.
Organizers said Thursday the concert will be co-hosted by actors Anne Hathaway and Denzel Washington and trait performances by Barry Manilow, Jamiroquai, A.R. Rahman and Elvis Costello amongst others. ___ Associated Press writers Gillian Wong in Beijing and Russell Contreras in Cambridge, Massachusetts, contributed to this report.
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