In Norway, Norwegian social movements are demonstrating in rejection of the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the representative of the Venezuelan far-right, Maria Corina Machado. Our correspondent Yunus Soner has all the details. teleSUR
00:00And in the context of the protests surrounding the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado,
00:05our special envoy in Norway, Junosuner, provides further details.
00:10Hello, good evening from Oslo, the capital of Norway, where a tense city has come to an end,
00:16given that the Nobel Prize Committee had decided to give the Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado,
00:23a representative of the extreme right in Venezuela.
00:27The day has started with an expert hearing where it was outlined why giving her the prize was illegal,
00:34based on the testimony of Alfred Nobel himself, who had stated clear criteria who should receive that prize.
00:43And the criteria are such as ending a war, attending peace conferences, supporting disarmament.
00:51None of them applies to Machado.
00:53Quite the opposite, we were told in that press conference.
00:56She is the antithesis of a peace prize because she calls for a military intervention in her country.
01:04She applauds U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and has also supported the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip beyond that.
01:13The day continued with a march, hundreds of people by two centigrades, very cold weather,
01:21but typical for Norway at this time, marched through the streets of Oslo,
01:26starting from the Nobel Institute's headquarters here in Oslo,
01:31and came to this place where we are now, to the Mela Cultural Center, shouting slogans such as hands of Venezuela and rejecting NATO aggressions in general.
01:42Lots of Palestinians' flags were also present during the march, which had the character of a general Norway and Scandinavian,
01:52and even European anti-imperialist march in some.
01:57In the evening, there was an expert meeting here where details of this Nobel Prize decision were discussed and also its geopolitical reasons behind it.
02:08Tomorrow, the day the marches will continue in the afternoon, there will be a march directly protesting the ceremony of the Nobel Prize.
02:17So we will see whether it will be allowed or not.
02:20And activists told us that the struggle against this Nobel Prize continues.
02:26In addition to that, there is a legal demand to cancel it.
02:29The Nobel Prize is given by the Nobel Foundation that has its seat in Sweden, is bound by Swedish laws.
02:38So there has been a legal demand to cancel it, given Swedish laws of association.
02:43They have to fulfill the foundation's founders' will.
02:48And now civil servants in Sweden are asked, are asked legally to revise this decision to give the prize to Maria Corina Machado.
02:59What is certain is that this prize has not achieved consensus here in Norway, is not celebrated.
03:06There is no joy or happiness around this prize, but quite the contrary, huge protests that took part today.
03:15Some will continue tomorrow.
03:17A great debate around this prize, its legitimacy, and the unjustified receiver of this prize,
03:24which shadowed Norway's Nobel Prize Committee's decision.
03:28We will continue this to observe here in Oslo.
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