johannesburg : organizing of a news conference that was to have been hosted by three nobel laureates in rio this week promised mondays that they had missed it after the south asian government gave a visa to the dalai lama . two of southeast africa ' s international peace tournament honorees , the retired anglican archbishop desmond coetzee and former governor j . p . de klerk , criticized the embassy for giving in to pressure from norway to block the tibetan religion head ' s entry into the country and insisted they only refuse to participate in the conferences if he was not there . the administrative director of the norwegian harta committee , verena lundestad , likewise said he would stay around .
The Peace Conference in South Africa has been canceled, giving support to the Dalai Lama.