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| Sweden and Cuba in a war of words. |
| 2007-03-24 |
| Your Mama...! Cuban authorities have expressed growing irritation with Sweden and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. The Swedish ambassador in Havana was called in on Thursday to listen to the Cubans' opinion with regard to the recent bickering. The row began when Carl Bildt gave a speech to the UN's Human Rights Council in which he criticized Cuba for its poor human rights record. The Cuban UN ambassador responded by accusing Sweden of having a blood-stained, imperialist past that involved elements of ethnic cleansing. Following the ambassador's outburst, Sweden demanded an explanation and an apology from the Cuban ambassador to Sweden. But Sweden received nothing like an apology when the Swedish ambassador in Havana was called in for a briefing. Instead, Cuban authorities expressed great annoyance with the importance attributed to the dispute. Sweden had caused the incident to escalate, according to the Cubans, who added that it was a clear exaggeration to refer to the spat as a diplomatic crisis. Apart from the war of words, Sweden has also accused Cuban officials of opening Swedish diplomatic post. The Swedish foreign ministry has called on its Cuban counterpart to provide an explanation, which has not yet been forthcoming. The European Union has expressed its support for Sweden in the ongoing dispute. Relations between Cuba and the EU are frosty and a spokesman for the EU Commission said that the entire Union shared Sweden's concern for human rights in Cuba. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 you lost me in my rudimentary Norwegian, RF. Sajer? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-24 19:08 |
| #7 Tack for det, som de sajer, RD, I will try that. ;) |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-03-24 17:57 |
| #6 Sweden and Cuba in a war of words. Cuba had better wise up or lutefisk. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-24 17:30 |
| #5 rhodesiafever here's the magic linky secrete < A CLASS=ED HREF='URL'>< /A> |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-24 17:21 |
| #4 rhodesiafever's link rhodesiafever click here then cut and paste the link into the slot, viola http://tinyurl.com/37fco7 |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-24 17:16 |
| #3 So it would seem that Cuba wants the Swedes to apologise for Viking pillaging that never happened to them, or is it getting personal? I'll have to ask all my friends at http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=183926&D =2007-03-24&HC=5 (Cut and Paste, in order not to break format). |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-03-24 14:09 |
| #2 Once the Swedes tasted Cuban food, Cuba would start to have a problem with Swedish illegal aliens coming there to take all the good jobs, crowd all the beaches and steal all their sunlight. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-03-24 11:04 |
| #1 I urge the Swedes to invade Cuba. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-24 10:37 |