The World - News from Oct. 8, 1989
China denounced the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s 54-year-old spiritual leader, saying it constitutes meddling in Chinese internal affairs and support for separatists. The New China News Agency reported that the Foreign Ministry summoned Norway’s ambassador, Jan Tore Holvik, and handed him a strongly worded protest expressing “our utmost regret and indignation. . . . It represents a gross interference in China’s internal affairs and seriously hurts the national feelings of the Chinese people.” Holvik emphasized that the Oslo-based Nobel committee is an independent organization and that the Norwegian government could not influence it.
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