Nobel Prize Regretting its Decision Awarding Abiy Ahmed The Peace Prize
Posted: 05 Dec 2019, 17:09
Peace Prize winner avoids questions
December 5, 2019
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is grappling with some awkward challenges just days before the man they selected to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize arrives in Oslo. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has made it clear he won’t attend any event where he could publicly be asked questions, either by the press or even children, and the committee finds that “highly problematic.”
A photo and information about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed Ali is already in place at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. He’ll open a new exhibition at the center next week, but in what’s called a “closed” event. PHOTO: Nobel Peace Center
“The Nobel Institute and the Nobel Committee wishes Abiy Ahmed had said ‘yes’ to meeting Norwegian and international press,” Olav Njølstad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and secretary for the committee that annually awards the Peace Prize, told Norwegian Broadasting (NRK).
“We have been very clear about this and have clarified that there are several reasons we find this (Abiy’s refusal to go along with the Nobel Institute’s program) highly problematic,” Njølstad said.
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December 5, 2019
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is grappling with some awkward challenges just days before the man they selected to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize arrives in Oslo. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has made it clear he won’t attend any event where he could publicly be asked questions, either by the press or even children, and the committee finds that “highly problematic.”
A photo and information about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed Ali is already in place at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. He’ll open a new exhibition at the center next week, but in what’s called a “closed” event. PHOTO: Nobel Peace Center
“The Nobel Institute and the Nobel Committee wishes Abiy Ahmed had said ‘yes’ to meeting Norwegian and international press,” Olav Njølstad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and secretary for the committee that annually awards the Peace Prize, told Norwegian Broadasting (NRK).
“We have been very clear about this and have clarified that there are several reasons we find this (Abiy’s refusal to go along with the Nobel Institute’s program) highly problematic,” Njølstad said.
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