Tunisia Boycotts the Peace Nobel Prize Ceremony in Oslo

On December 10th, Tunisian diplomacy decided to boycott the Peace Nobel Prize Ceremony in Oslo, the prize being awarded to the Chinese imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo.
The Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister strongly criticized awarding the Peace Nobel Prize to the Chinese imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu declared in a press release: ‘This kind of political theater will never move the determination of the China’s people on the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. ’ She pointed to a ‘Cold War mentality’. She also said: ‘The plots are doomed to failure’ and added that ‘Bias and lies have no basis to rest on’. ‘We are firmly opposed to any attempt by countries or individuals to use the Peace Nobel Prize to interfere in the Chinese Internal affairs and infringe its judicial sovereignty’.
 ‘Facts clearly show that the decision of the Nobel Committee can not represent the majority of the people in the world’, we could read in the press release.
The Nobel Prize Committee invited 65 countries to take part in the award ceremony. Boycotting countries are: Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Tunisia, Arab Saudi kingdom, Pakistan, Serbia, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Philippines, Egypt, Sudan, Ukraine, Cuba and Morocco.