India, Dec. 10 -- Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who is also a Venezuelan opposition leader, will not attend the award ceremony in Norwegian capital Oslo on Wednesday, said head of the Nobel Institute Kristian Berg Harpviken.

He added that Machado's daughter will accept the prize on her behalf.

While speaking to public broadcaster NRK ahead of the award ceremony which is scheduled to start at 1:00 pm (around 5.30 pm IST) at Oslo's City Hall , Harpviken said the he does not know where Machado is.

"I simply do not know where she is exactly," he said.

"It will be her daughter Ana Corina Machado who will receive the prize in her mother's name.her daughter will give the speech that Maria Corina herself wrote," he said.

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