"We are outraged by the deplorable actions of the military junta against Suu Kyi and strongly encourage challenging this obvious harassment of our fellow Nobel laureate," the statement read.
Nobel laureates issued a statement asserting the administration had distorted scientific fact on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry.
The Nobel committee, in a statement on its Web site, said that as of Monday, 44 embassies in Oslo, the Norwegian capital, had signaled their intention to send a representative to the ceremony on Friday.
On Wednesday, more than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement criticizing what they described as the misuse of science by the administration to bolster its policies on the environment, arms control and public health.
In a statement, the Nobel committee said: "Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations.
Dr. Agre was one of four Nobel winners who issued a statement criticizing the case.
Forty Nobel laureates have signed a statement supporting cloning for medical research.
The scientists issued an earlier report in February, and 62 prominent scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, signed an accompanying statement.
The "Nobel Tent" makes a blunt statement: The Yemeni uprising is no longer a fully domestic affair but has a global dimension and will continue until the uprising's objectives have been fully met.
The Nobel winners said in a statement on Thursday, "The international community seems to have forgotten that, a year after the award ceremony, Liu Xiaobo remains in prison in China and in harsh conditions".
A report in the World Briefing column on Thursday about South Africa's failure to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled religious leader, so he could attend the 80th birthday of Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and a fellow Nobel laureate, misattributed a joint statement of criticism that called the failure "profoundly disrespectful".
