Bijan Jirsaraei, foreign policy spokesman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany, said at the ceremony of awarding the Freedom Prize of the Friedrich Neumann Foundation to Prince Reza Pahlavi on behalf of the Iranian people: "The Iranian people have been fighting for freedom for decades, and for this reason, they deserve to receive the Freedom Prize of the Friedrich Neumann Foundation." The foreign policy spokesman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany added: "Freedom is a global value and the people of Iran are not only fighting to achieve a free, democratic country and the rule of law, but their fight is for freedom all over the world." Bijan Jirsrai continued: "A government that kills a large number of its own people and creates widespread problems should never benefit from Europe's appeasement policy."