Ambassadors from Russia and Belarus have been invited back to the Nobel Prize banquet after being excluded last year because of the invasion of Ukraine, the Nobel Foundation said.
Iran has also been invited to the December event in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, after being left out last year. The foundation said it wanted to involve even those who do not share the values of the Nobel Prize. “It is clear that the world is increasingly divided into spheres, where dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced,” said Vidar Helgesen, executive director of the Nobel Foundation, in a statement Thursday.
The Nobel Foundation would like to reach out with this message to everyone,” it said in a statement. A Swedish member of the European Parliament called the decision “extremely inappropriate.” “The Nobel Committee contributes to set a precedent, a very dangerous precedent, giving a green light to invite Russia to a glamorous party while the missiles fall over Ukrainian cultural centers and murder children,” Swedish Liberal MEP Karin Karlsbro told Swedish national radio.
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