German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an official ceremony in Moscow on May 9 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two due to tensions of the Ukraine crisis, government officials said on March 11.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the Asahi Shimbun headquarters in Tokyo on March 9, 2015.