June 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Kuwaiti authorities have summoned the Swedish ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Liselott Andersson, this Friday to express their rejection of the burning of a Koran during a rally held on Tuesday in Stockholm.
The Deputy Foreign Minister, Jarrá Jaber al Ahmad al Sabá, expressed to Andersson his “strong condemnation” of the Swedish government’s decision to allow the demonstration, carried out by “extremists” who carried out “disgusting acts”, reported the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry.
For his part, the Foreign Minister, Salem Abdullah al Jaber al Sabá, spoke this Friday by phone with his Swedish counterpart, Tobias Billstrom, to convey his rejection of “totally unacceptable” events that are against the “principles and humanitarian values”.
In this sense, he has affirmed that the gesture of burning a Koran “incites hatred, violence and terrorism”, at the same time that he has demanded from his Swedish counterpart that the Government take “immediate measures” to prevent this from happening again and to bring the person responsible to justice, the KUNA news agency has reported.
The controversy has been unleashed after the Swedish Police authorized a demonstration on Wednesday in which one of its attendees burned a copy of the Koran, the holy book of Islam, precisely on a day when the Muslim community celebrated the Eid al-Adha.
