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14th Nobel Summit to exit SA over Dalai Lama visa row/ENG

2014. október 1./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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DHARAMSHALA, October 1: In a major setback for the government of South Africa, which earlier denied visa to the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, the organizers of the Nobel Laureates’ 14th Summit which was to be held in Cape town this month have decided to move the Summit outside of South Africa. The new venue will be announced tomorrow though Barcelona is touted as a possible venue.

Nobel Women’s Initiative, an organization of women winners of the prestigious prize, had earlier announced its boycott of the summit to stand with the Tibetan leader.

Betty Williams, a joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, together with Mairead Corrigan, for her work in bringing peace in Northern Ireland, also announced her decision to skip the summit.

Two of the four women laureates, Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams, are here to participate in an official function to mark 25 years of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize upon the Dalai Lama on October 2, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday.

Addressing a press conference today, Shirin Ebadi said that she boycotted a similar summit in Costa Rica eight years ago after the Costa Rican president, who was himself a Nobel laureate, withdrew his invitation to the Dalai Lama under Chinese pressure.

She said she was surprised that Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a close friend of the Dalai Lama and a Nobel laureate himself, did not speak out this time against the denial of visa to the Tibetan leader. “One who does not speak against injustice is contributing to the injustice,” the former Iranian judge said through a translator.

Jody Williams said that South Africa, by denying visa to the Dalai Lama, has violated the human rights of the Dalai Lama to attend the summit. “And we stand behind the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people in telling the world that they are not alone.”

"It is with sadness that I am unable to join you. It is a sadness so profound it almost brings me to my knees. Oh South Africa, how can you do such a thing?" wrote Betty Williams in a letter to Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

"Is apartheid and the horror of those years so quickly gone from your souls that you allow the denial of a visa to one of our colleagues and greatest peace workers on Earth, His Holiness the Dalai Lama?" asked Williams.

Also accompanying the two Nobel Laureates was the Tibetan PM Lobsang Sangay who welcomed the Nobel laureates and thanked them for their support.

Sangay said his administration chose the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi for the commemoration to remember the tireless efforts by India’s father of the nation. “Mahatma Gandhi was the one individual who deserved the Nobel peace prize, and the Nobel Committee could not posthumously award him the prize. So we chose his birthday to pay our respect to him,” said Sangay.

The Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will take part in the official celebrations tomorrow at the Theckchen Choeling courtyard.

Meanwhile, the Tibetan National Congress, a US based organization, had earlier launched a campaign to urge the Nobel laureates invited to the summit to forego their attendance unless the Tibetan leader is allowed to attend. The TNC has written to 13 past winners of the prestigious peace prize.

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