Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said Stockholm had interrupted the kingdom’s NATO accession process due to acts of disrespect for the Qur’an. DEA News.
“The events of the past few weeks have temporarily suspended the process (joining the North Atlantic Alliance – socialbites.ca),” the minister said.
He also expressed his hope that an agreement will be reached with Turkey at the NATO Foreign Ministers Summit to be held in Vilnius in July.
It was reported that the leader of the Hard Deal party, the far-right Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan, burned the Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm. room threatening Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will continue his actions until Sweden joins NATO.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry described the action as “disgusting”. The ministry said that the repetition of such an act after Sweden and the Netherlands is “worrying as it marks the dangerous dimensions that religious intolerance and hatred have reached in Europe”.
Source: Gazeta
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