CNN —Ambassadors from Russia and Belarus have been invited back to the Nobel Prize banquet after being excluded last year because of the invasion of Ukraine, the Nobel Foundation said. The foundation said it wanted to involve even those who do not share the values of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Foundation would like to reach out with this message to everyone,” it said in a statement. The Nobel Foundation also reversed its longstanding policy of excluding the leader of the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party which forms a part of the country’s coalition government. The Nobel Banquet takes place annually in Stockholm on December 10, where five out of six Nobel Prizes are awarded.

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