Israel’s exclusion from the Bandung conference of African and Asian nations to be held in the Indonesian city from April 18-25 will be followed by another snub, it was reported here from Tokyo this weekend. Japan has invited a delegation of Middle East states to come to Tokyo for a parley to be devoted to promoting Japanese trade with the Middle East, but has not invited Israel.
Japan invited leaders of eight Middle Eastern nations to visit Japan after the close of the Bandung conference, including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, and Iran. Syria was sounded out, but declined. The purpose of the gesture, Japanese Foreign Office sources said, was to promote friendly relations as well as trade between Japan and the Middle East region.
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