15 minutes agoAfter Albania, Turkey, Croatia boycotts Nobel
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Europe in Croatia has decided to boycott the ceremony organised by the Swedish Academy of Sciences for awarding Nobel Prizes, where the this year's Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Peter Handke, friend and supporter of Slobodan Milosevic, will be honoured. At Nobel's ceremony, he is refusing [...]
At the Nobel ceremony, Croatia is refusing to attend as well, because of the writer who has publicly supported and expressed admiration for former Serbian criminal leader Slobodan Milosevic's policy.
Croatia's Foreign Ministry has announced that its ambassador to this state in Sweden will not attend the ceremony organised by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
“MVEP has decided that the Croatian ambassador to Sweden will not attend the Nobel ceremony tomorrow in Stockholm due to the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to a man who has engaged in supporting Slobodan Milosevic's policy in the 1990s”, reportedly in the announcement of the Creme MPJCE.
In addition to Croatia, this ceremony has announced that both Albania and Turkey will boycott it.
The reason is Handke, who was proclaimed this year winner of the Nobeth Prize for Literature, and this assessment has prompted many reactions in Bosnia, Kosovo, but also internationally. The award of the most important prize for Literature was also criticized by the American Writers' Association.
