At Myanmar's request, Asean canceled an invitation to Mr. Gambari, the United Nations envoy, to address the meeting.
Mr. Mehta made his announcement just days after the government of Georgia canceled its invitation to visit next month, when the orchestra will be on tour in Europe.
The Republic of Georgia canceled an invitation to the New York Philharmonic just weeks before it was to visit, the Philharmonic said on Friday.
Last week, school authorities in Belgium scrapped ski trips to Austrian resorts and a Belgian tourism trade fair canceled an invitation to a northern Austrian resort, Scharding.
But on Feb. 5 Mr. Schülein wrote to Mr. Said, a strong champion of Palestinian causes, and canceled the invitation because of "the political development in the Middle East and the consequences expected".
Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters late Wednesday that they would be permitted to listen to the president's remarks, but she canceled the invitation just before the event.
Administrators at Catholic institutions frequently canceled faculty invitations to her.
Dr. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, and later headed the American government's part in the international Human Genome Project, is leaving in a swirl of denunciations and canceled speaking invitations, including one from Rockefeller University, which yesterday canceled a lecture he was to have given next week.
These included a couple of occasions when universities had invited the Dalai Lama to speak and then either cancelled the invitation or received him off-campus.In one case, at North Carolina State University in 2009, the provost said after the cancellation of a Dalai Lama visit that the Confucius Institute had indicated the exiled Tibetan's presence could cause problems with China.
(Note to self: cancel supper invitation to Midas Dekkers).
