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Kuwait Foreign Ministry summons Swedish envoy over Holy Quran burning

Kuwait Foreign Ministry summons Swedish envoy over Holy Quran burning
Kuwait Foreign Ministry summons Swedish envoy over Holy Quran burning
KUWAIT, June 30 (KUNA) -- Acting at the behest of Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Deputy Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah called in Sweden Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Non-Resident Ambassador to Kuwait Liselott Andersson on Friday.
He handed the Swedish diplomat a protest note over the permission of her government for extremists to burn a copy of the Holy Quran in Stockholm on Wednesday.
Sheikh Jarrah expressed Kuwait's strong denunciation of the Swedish authorities for permitting extremists to persist in such repugnant acts, according to a press release from the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry.
The State of Kuwait demanded the Swedish government to shoulder its responsibility for halting immediately the malpractices targeting the Muslims and the Islamic sanctities. It stressed the need of bringing the perpetrators of such acts to book and preventing them from using the freedom of expression as a ploy to offend Muslims and tamper with the sanctities of the holy faith, the statement noted. (end) tm.gb