Temporarily.. Sweden moves its embassy from Baghdad to Stockholm
Temporarily.. Sweden moves its embassy from Baghdad to Stockholm
2023-07-21 03:33
Shafaq News/ The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the assigned staff and operations at the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad were temporarily transferred to Stockholm for security reasons.
This came, according to what was reported by the Swedish News Agency (TT) today, Friday, on the authority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of her country.
A spokesman for the Swedish Foreign Ministry said staff and operations would be temporarily moved to Stockholm for security reasons, but declined to comment further.
Supporters of the Sadrist movement attacked at dawn on Thursday the Swedish embassy in the capital, Baghdad, and set it on fire to condemn allowing a demonstration in Stockholm that witnessed the desecration of the Koran and the Iraqi flag in front of the Iraqi embassy there.
After that, the Iraqi government decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Sweden, in protest against the repeated insult to the first holy place for Muslims, which is the Holy Quran.
Yesterday, Thursday, the head of the Media and Communications Authority, Ali Al-Moayyed, announced the suspension of the license to operate the Swedish company Ericsson for communications in Iraqi territory, due to its state allowing the burning of the Qur’an and the Iraqi flag.
In a statement, the Minister of Communications, Hayam Al-Yasiri, directed a ban on dealing by the ministry and its formations with all Swedish companies.
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