On January 24, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ambassador of Sweden to the country with the largest Muslim population in the world to protest the case of a businessman. far-right activism burn the Koran in Stockholm over the weekend.
Earlier on January 21, a Swedish-Danish politician Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Koran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, angering Ankara by announcing that it would not support its bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.NATO) of this Nordic country.
According to the Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Jakarta, Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said Swedish Ambassador Marina Berg had been summoned for Jakarta to officially protest against the act against Islam.
[Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ triệu đại sứ, phản đối hành động xé kinh Koran tại Hà Lan]
“Yes, we will see her this week,” Faizasyah told AFP news agency, without giving a specific date.
Meanwhile, the Swedish Embassy in Indonesia confirmed that Ambassador Berg will be meeting with an Indonesian Foreign Ministry official.
Swedish leaders have bluntly condemned the Paludan politician’s actions, but have also defended the country’s broad definition of free speech.
Paludan’s burning of copies of the Koran has sparked protests outside Swedish embassies in several countries, including Turkey and Iraq, where protesters burned the Swedish flag on Monday. /1 and caused clashes, injuring 1 policeman and 7 protesters.
On January 21, Ankara canceled a visit by Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson that had been scheduled for January 27, after summoning the Swedish ambassador and asserting that the visit “had lost its importance”. and meaning”./.
(VNA/Vietnam+)