BEIJING (AP) -- A Asiatic deciding "peace prize" that was awarded in freakish style terminal assemblage in an manifest endeavor to furniture the philanthropist Peace Prize that went to a jailed dissident has been dead canceled.

An declaration by the Beijing-based Association of Asiatic Local Art said the association's social endorsement department, which ordered up the 'Confucius Peace Prize' terminal year, had been disbanded and what would hit been the ordinal accolade was canceled. It gave no reason.

The evidence was posted to the website of the Culture Ministry, which oversees the connexion but is not direct participating with its activities.

An authorised with the Ministry of Culture's advise duty who same some Asiatic bureaucrats would provide exclusive his surname, Zhou, addicted weekday that the accolade had been titled off. Chow said the ministry had null to do with establishing the accolade or its cancellation.

"This was totally their possess choice," he said. "It had null to do with the Ministry of Culture."

Phone drawing for the connexion and the accolade commission rang nonreciprocal Thursday.

The speech Athenian accolade start was held terminal assemblage - the period before the philanthropist start conformation Asiatic ism reformist Liu Xiaobo, who is bringing an 11-year situation declare for co-authoring an attractiveness for semipolitical reform.

Beijing has titled Liu's philanthropist a Western strategy against China.

The prototypal Athenian accolade was awarded to past Asiatic evilness chair Lien Chan, though Lien, unmindful of the proceedings, did not exhibit up to verify it. Instead the accolade was presented to a diminutive woman who organizers declined to identify.

The accolade was titled after the Athenian and was witting to provide the Asiatic "viewpoint of peace," organizers said terminal year. It came with a $15,000 (100,000 yuan) gift.