Ambassadors from Western countries have announced that they will boycott the memorial service for the victims of the atomic bomb in the city of Nagasaki, Japan, after the Israeli ambassador was not invited. The ambassadors of the group of industrialized countries (G7) announced that they would send junior diplomats instead of the ambassadors. The ambassador of the European Union also announced that he would not participate in the ceremony, as did the ambassadors of Australia and Ukraine. The U.S. ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, demanded from the beginning that Israel be invited to the event; His absence is especially noticeable in light of the fact that it was the U.S. that dropped the atomic bomb at the end of World War II.