Video: How Nobel panel broke news to Maria Corina Machado about Nobel Peace Prize

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Watch how Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute Kristian Berg Harpviken broke the news to Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado about her winning the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025.

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00:00Hello. Hello. Yes, hello. Am I talking to Maria Corina Machado? Yes, this is Maria Corina.

00:14Yes, Maria Corina. My name is Kristian Berg-Artviken. I am the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel

00:26Committee in Oslo, and I'm calling to inform you that in a few minutes it shall be announced

00:35here at the Nobel Institute that you will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025.

00:44Oh, my God. So the warmest congratulations to you, Maria.

00:58Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Well, I have no words.

01:07Thank you so much, but I hope you understand this is a movement. This is a achievement of a whole

01:22society. I am just, you know, one person. I certainly do not deserve this. Oh, my God.

01:33I think both the movement and you deserve it. So I'm sure this comes as a surprise and I'm sorry to

01:42have to wake you up in the middle of the night to convey this. We don't have much time. We actually

01:50are making the announcement just in a few minutes, but I want to quote just shortly from the text that

01:58will be announced shortly where it is said that you are receiving the prize for and here I quote

02:05directly from the announcement for a tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of

02:12Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

02:20I'm honored, humbled, and very grateful on behalf of the Venezuelan people. We're not there yet.

02:33We're working very hard to achieve it, but I'm sure that we will prevail and this is certainly the biggest

02:42recognition to our people that certainly deserve it. So thank you very much. Thank you very much.

02:50I'm very happy to hear your reaction. I do have to ask you, Maria, not to reveal this

02:57in the next five minutes until the official announcement is made here in Oslo, which is at

03:0311 o'clock a.m. local time, 5 o'clock your time. After that, of course, you are more than welcome to tell

03:12anyone you would like. And by experience we know that the news will be out.

03:20I think it will take me a lot longer to believe what I've just heard.

03:28Wow. Well, thank you very much. It's an honor and I know it's a recognition to our people,

03:37to the Venezuelan people. Thank you so much. It certainly is, but it's also a recognition of

03:42yourself and what you have done. I look very much forward to speaking with you soon again.

03:47Me too. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. I am speechless, but thank you. Thank you.

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