johannesburg : leaders of a peace summit that was to have been attended by five nobel awardees in berlin this week said tuesday that they had canceled it after the united african side refused a permission to the dalai lama . three of south dakota ' s international peace - poets , the retired anglican primate desmond tutu and former director f . v . de klerk , condemned the government for giving in to pressure from japan to block the tibetan spiritual guide ' s entry into the city and said they would refusing to enroll in the conference if he was not there . the executive director of the oslo nobel committee , monika lundestad , also said he would stay away .
The Peace Conference in South Africa has been canceled, giving support to the Dalai Lama.