Further Swedish Hilarity - Swedish Gender Awareness Coures for Saudis

GOOGLE TRANSLATE Updated: March 8, 2015 18:16. Published: March 8, 2015 18:03 0 comments Empty clauses in the disputed agreement QUESTION WITH BIG explosive force. Last year, Swedish exports to Saudi Arabia, with the newly appointed king Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, to just over 11 billion. Ericsson, Ikea, Volvo, Scania and Saab are some of the biggest exporters. Saudi Agreement, and the exchange that the agreement means between Sweden and Saudi Arabia, are much less extensive than what has emerged. It may Di reveal. The talks between the two countries have not touched munitions - without visits and training courses, including courses in gender equality. On Friday went 31 business profiles in a joint appeal on DN Debate on the Saudi contract should not be terminated. At the urging of Investor's Chairman Jacob Wallenberg including SEB's CEO Annika Falkengren, Volvo's CEO Olof Persson and Industry CEO, Anders Nyrén signed. The move was the hitherto heaviest backing of Prime Minister Stephen Löfvens line to negotiate - not terminate - the military MoU with Saudi Arabia. The Cabinet ongoing negotiations at the highest level. Output Mode is awkward and prophecies of the government crisis pouring in. Do not talk munitions But Di's review shows that the agreement itself is far less explosive than it has appeared to be. In the group that regularly meets Saudi counterparts under the Agreement are no discussion whatsoever about military equipment. It says Deputy Director Reidar Ljöstad who is chairman of the group regularly meets Saudi counterparts. "The questions are not included in the Committee's work," he says. When Di goes through agreement with him, it is clear that effective cooperation has been much more limited than the agreement (see box). Most of the military issues surrounding maintenance and technology transfer, contained therein, is handled directly between the Saudis and the defense industry, according to Reidar Ljöstad. "There has been much simpler questions that have arisen. We've talked about medical training, exchange of visits and it has been informed of the situation in each country in terms of threats, "he says. [What?] Has standing invitation A question has however come up several times. "The Saudis have been offered some courses. It has been gender courses and courses on how to behave in the UN context. " Have they been invited to gender courses? "They've been several times. It is a standing invitation, "said Reidar Ljöstad. The Centre Party's foreign policy spokesperson Kerstin Lundgren think that the empty sections in itself is an argument that the agreement should be terminated. "It is important that you do not have a contract that gives a picture of reality that makes you lose track of each other if the Saudis want to make one thing we do not want to go with, for example," she says. "It can not be our relations with Saudi Arabia win." "A definite highlight" Valter Mutt, which is a foreign policy spokesman for the Green Party believes that one should not underestimate the symbolic value of the contract is terminated. "Above all, I see this as a clear political statement and that is what makes it sensitive," he says. "It's not okay to behead people in public and whip opponents. That's what it's about. " Footnote: A check with the Armed Forces shows that the Armed Forces' international gender courses have not had any Saudi students in the last two and a half years. http://www.di.se/di/artiklar/2015/3/9/tomma-paragrafer-i-omstritt-avtal/?share=B3F9C8305B2A835A838D64D1DE1EB729 COMMENT Found my way to this article, briefly checking out the blog I'd read from earlier.  Decided to look around a bit and see what else was there.   Thought the gender awareness post on that blog was hilarious. How I'd love to be a fly on the wall at political party meetings in Sweden and at those awkward EU and UN gatherings with what sounds like a clash of a kind I can't even begin to imagine. What the f@%% is the 'Armed Forces' international gender courses'?  Have the Swedish gone insane? PS   I don't even have a vocabulary to begin to index this. What is it?  Is it 'gender politics'?  Is it 'cultural Marxism'?  Is it state sanctioned bullsh*t & officialdom gone nuts?