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Eat Your Greens, Stefan
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Sweden calls off SaudiArabia arms deal over human rights.
Yeah, right. What's really going on here? Probably some quiet deal.
Diplomatic stand-off denied.
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150310/1019318269.html#ixzz3U14IabW
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Sweden vs SaudiArabia
It's On! Annika Söder meeting with ambassador / Saudi informed no arms deal.
Saudi's recalled their ambassador. Unknown if he remains in country.
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GOOGLE TRANSLATE
AFTONBLADET
Saudi Arabia calls its ambassador
Saudi conflict escalates.
Saudi Arabia has called its ambassador from Stockholm, Aftonbladet can reveal.
Saudi Arabia called yesterday its ambassador in Stockholm, Ibrahim bin Saad bin Ibrahim Al-Brahim, according to data Aftonbladet.
- It is in this diplomatic game announced as a backlash from the Saudi side. There is an escalation of the situation, said a source familiar with.
Foreign Minister Wallström's press secretary Eric Boman confirm:
- UD learned yesterday informed that Saudi Arabia called its ambassador. If he remains in the country or not I do not know.
Kabinetssekreterare [Cabinet Secretary] Annika Söder had after telling a meeting with the ambassador yesterday.
- It was to inform that the MOU t (CMAA, editor's note) on military cooperation would be terminated. At the same meeting, we performed also
From the Saudi embassy would not say anything.
- I can not give any comments. It can only be the ambassador himself do, says an assistant at the ambassador's office.
He is in Sweden?
- No comments.
Is there anyone among you who can comment?
- No.
Yesterday afternoon, Saudi ambassador told that Sweden cancels military cooperation agreement with Saudiarbien. It all took place two days after Saudi Arabia stopped the Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström (S) from speaking on the Arab League meeting in Cairo, citing what she said earlier about democracy and human rights in the country.
Ibrahim bin Saad bin Ibrahim Al-Brahim, 71, has been the Saudi ambassador in Stockholm since last year. Before that he was Ambassador to the UAE, Tunisia and Egypt.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article20448477.ab
Annika Söder
= diplomat & Cabinet Sec. MFA since Oct 2014 Söder originally journalist.
source: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article20448477.ab … [Swe]
Further
Annika Söder
= diplomat & Cabinet Sec. MFA since Oct 2014
Söder originally journalist.
1982 State Department
Rank of ambassador
Sec of State for Development Cooperation + Humanitarian Affairs from 2002-06.
2007 appointed Assistant Director-General
Food + Agriculture Organization (FAO
Later also press + communications + cooperation
with civil society + business
Söder CEO Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala (2012)
Annika Söder
= daughter of former Foreign Minister and the center conductor Karin Söder
Married to retired Ambassador Anders Bjurner
[Wikipedia]
COMMENT
Quite enjoying the Sweden diplomatic and commercial fiasco, although I have nothing against Sweden itself. It's the politicians in excruciating positions that I really enjoy.
It looks like Sweden has called off the deal, informing the Saudi Arabia ambassador, who has been recalled by his country.
Stefan Lofven has probably aged considerably in the last 48 hours or however long this drama's been playing out. He would have had pressure from corporate types bearing down on him, on the one hand, and fellow politicians spitting the dummy and applying as much (if not more) pressure, on the other.
More pressure was probably felt from fellow politicians, because if the Greens had quit the government (as I understand they threatened to do), it would have been all over for the SDP (who struggled to form a government). Not sure what next step would have been in that event. Maybe another deal like they had at Christmas, or maybe another election?
The Green party:
Ideology
- Green politics
- Soft euroscepticism
- Feminism
Political position
Just as I was wondering how Avigdor Leiberman was taking this (as in, is he in stitches), I came across this Jewish Press article:
Sweden Rips Up Saudi Military Deal After Cairo Spat Over Human Rights
Was going to do a Jewish Press screen grab of text insert here re Margot Walstrom.
Margot rejected again by a Middle Eastern country ...
But I noticed you need permission & I couldn't be stuffed e-mailing to do that one tiny thing.
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Do like the in your face, no mincing words, Jewish approach:
"So Wallstrom was snubbed one more time ...".
Yep. Wallstrom's in a pickle again.
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Someone else who doesn't mice words is this fella:
Lord High's tweets are always outrageous, attention grabbing and mostly very, very funny ...
But occasionally, they turn a little weird and I think:
'Mein Gott, did he just say that?', he's going to get himself arrested or something.
Not because I think he should be, but because I guess I imagine a far more authoritarian climate than it is. Maybe it's reading all that surveillance, NSA, Five Eye and cable intercept stuff that's done my head in, but I just imagine the Stasi coming down on his twitterverse fun in no time, if he's not careful.
[Hoping this post makes sense. Bit scattered right now. Too much messing around with info., I think.]
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