Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey has expressed disappointment that no one from the Swiss government has been invited to Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations.
Switzerland will be represented at the festivities through its ambassador in Tel Aviv, she told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, published on Sunday.
"Personally, I am disappointed that our country was not invited at government level," she said.
Officials at the Israeli Embassy in the Swiss capital, Bern, and at the United Nations in Geneva could not be reached for comment.
Israeli President Shimon Peres has invited heads of state, ministers, scientists, philosophers and artists for a three-day conference to mark the Jewish state's 60th birthday on May 14. More...
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