Malala Yousafzai, a joint winner, along with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarth, of the $1.1 million Nobel Peace Prize, has spoken of her sympathy for the Mexican asylum seeker who interrupted the Oslo ceremony in which she was about to receive her medal and diploma by chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjørn Jagland.

The young man, who was immediately tackled by police officers and led away from the area, ran up onto the stage waving a Mexican flag, NewsinEnglish.no reports.

"This is a security breach for which we apologize," Johan Fredriksen, Oslo Police District inspector, explained to reporters, according to Sputnik International. This should not have happened."

As reported by the Associated Press, the 17-year old Pakistani laureate was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 and was being awarded for her struggles against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to receive an education.

Yousafzai remained calm and seemed to be listening to the young man as he spoke directly towards her, right until the moment he was taken away by security guards. She said that the stage-stormer’s actions indicated that "there are problems in Mexico."

According to the police statements, the Mexican asylum-seeker was a student who arrived in Norway in late November and applied for asylum on Dec. 9.

Yousafzai announced that the Nobel Prize was not just for her. According to The New York Times, she said the prize was for those forgotten children who want education, adding that it “is for those frightened children who want peace."

"It is for those voiceless children who want change," she continued.

Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the prize since it was first awarded in 1901.

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