South Africa: Presidency Clarifies Nobel Laureates Summit Suspension

Pretoria — The Presidency says comments by Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille, where she blamed government for the cancellation of the 14th World Summit of Nobel Laureates, are inaccurate and misleading.

On Thursday, De Lille announced the decision to suspend the summit, saying the decision was taken because of government's seeming reluctance to grant the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a visa.

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