New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who lived in hiding in Venezuela, travelled to Oslo in Norway to receive the honour and said that she would do her best to return to her home country to end the "tyranny".

In a brief appearance from her hotel balcony in Oslo, Maria Machado said, "I came to receive the prize on behalf of the Venezuelan people and I will take it back to Venezuela at the correct moment."

Machado would not say when she would return. "I will not say when that is or how it's going to be," she commented, but added that she wanted "to end with this tyranny very soon and have a free Venezuela."

The 58-year-old had missed the award ceremony on Wednesday, December 10.

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