Nobel Foundation Scraps Plan to Invite Russia, Belarus and Iran
- Ambassadors had been told they would be welcome in Stockholm
- All representatives will still be invited to ceremony in Oslo
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The ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran won’t be invited to this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm after all, following a backlash.
“We recognize the strong reactions in Sweden,” the organization based in the Swedish capital said in a statement on Saturday. “The board of the Nobel Foundation, therefore, choose to repeat last year’s exception to regular practice — that is, to not invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran.”