BR cannot personally attend their dinner.

"I am willing to accept but must point out that I am a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and not the Peace Prize. I should wish you to use the following message: 'The common need for peace is related to the imminent threat to survival posed by every satellite country of East and West. The giant powers seek to degrade their satellites by forcing them to host weapons of total annihilation. I urge every citizen of countries now reduced to the status of expendable rocket-bases, to oppose such policy in the name of conscience'."