The U.S., EU and five other G-7 nations said they will send lower-ranked envoys instead of ambassadors to this year's atomic bombing memorial in Nagasaki because Israel was excluded.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will skip this year's atomic bombing memorial service in Nagasaki on Friday because Israel was not invited, the embassy said. Emanuel will not attend the event because it was 'politicized' by Nagasaki's decision not to invite Israel, the embassy said. He will instead honor the victims of the Nagasaki atomic bombing at a ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, it said.
Nagasaki officials said they were told that an official of the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka will represent the United States at Friday's ceremony. Envoys from the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. and the European Union signed a joint letter expressing their shared concern about Israel's exclusion, saying that treating the country on the same level as Russia and Belarus — the only other countries not invited — would be misleading.
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