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Swedish Premier Criticized For Opposing Genocide Resolution

by Asbarez Staff
March 15, 2010
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STOCHOLM (Radio Sweden)–Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt spent Monday fending off criticism for his statements that the government won’t accept a resolution requiring Swedish foreign policy to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Social Democrat Sven-Erik Osterberg has now reported Reinfeldt’s comments to the Committee on the Constitution to force the sitting government to adopt the parliament’s resolution.

Reinfeldt said Monday evening that he’s open to the prospect of the committee reviewing his statements.
“I have been very clear in that I regret the decision in the sense that it’s bad timing given that a process of reconciliation is in the works. But we will naturally analyze the decision that the parliament has made,” he said.

Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has also been very critical of the parliament’s decision last week to recognize the Genocide and has mirrored Reinfeldt’s statements that the constitution doesn’t force the government to adopt a parliamentary measure.

Criticism of his actions has also come from the public sector. Hasan Dolek, chairman of the Turkish National Organization in Sweden, slammed Bildt for not personally trying to prevent parliament from voting “aye” on the resolution.

“He has expressed regret about the decision to the Turkish prime minister but he didn’t do anything himself,” Dolek told the TT news agency. “Carl Bildt wasn’t even there in the parliament.”

But Carl Bildt dismissed the criticism, telling TT that he had worked for days to convince people to vote against the measure by pursuing individual talks with parliamentarians.
“It led to the fact that the alliance parties came out in greater force this time than last year” when it came to voting the proposition down, Bildt said.

Carl Bildt’s surge of support was not enough to stymie the decision, however, and whether Turkey will forgive the Swedish parliament for the vote and send back its ambassador remains to be seen.

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  1. MihranK says:
    12 years ago

    Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt who have apologised to the Turks for passing the Armenian genocide resolution in the Swedish parliament have NO SHAME OR MORALITY LEFT, they are just pawns in the hands of global finance.
    All decent Swedes with justice and truth in mind must protest at their leaders stance which is nothing but gutter politics.

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  2. brkv36 says:
    12 years ago

    MihranK Ditto
    well wrote, just to add,
    Have them to reconize Republic of Cyprus and to open airports and seaports
    in the front of Cyprus planes and ships for to eligible to enter to european family

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