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Sri Lanka to skip Nobel awards amid China boycott callsColombo (AFP) Dec 9, 2010 Sri Lanka, a close ally of China, said Thursday it would not send a representative to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo for jailed Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo. "As of now, our position is not to attend the ceremony," Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters. "We are not the only country that took up that position, there are lots of countries that are not attending the event." Rambukwella declined to give reasons, but a Sri Lankan foreign ministry official said the decision ... read more |
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