Within hours, Israel's deputy foreign minister had denounced the article for racism and demanded that it be condemned by the Swedish government.

文章见诸报端几小时后，以色列副外长就怒斥该文带有种族主义色彩，并要求瑞典方面谴责这家报纸。

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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said releasing Suu Kyi was crucial to pave the way for planned elections in Burma next year.

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The talks have been personally presided over by Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency and who served as the first high representative in Bosnia.

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In 2003 one of his poems was read at the memorial service of Anna Lindh, the murdered Swedish foreign minister.

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Last week Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman compared the Swedish Foreign Ministry's hands-off position to the country's neutrality during World War II.

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