By Alfred de Montesquiou
Khartoum - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is threatening to expel Danish organisations, snub its officials and boycott the country's products in reaction to cartoons republished in Denmark criticising Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the presidential palace and state news agency said Sunday.
Al-Bashir met with the leaders of his ruling National Congress Party on Saturday to devise a response to Denmark after 17 Danish newspapers published a cartoon earlier this month that shows Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban.
The president "has directed that all Danish officials and diplomats should not be received by Sudanese officials and that all Danish organisations operating in the country should be expelled and all Danish goods boycotted," the state-run SUNA news agency said on Sunday.
It was not clear when these measures would be enacted. The Danish embassy said it hadn't been notified. "I have not received anything officially, so I cannot comment," said Karin Soerensen, the Danish Charge d'Affaires in Khartoum.
Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said it hadn't been advised on the presidential ruling. "As far as this ministry is concerned, we have not yet received anything," spokesperson Ali Sadiq said on the telephone.
But the Sudanese presidential spokesperson, Mahzoub Faidul, said the measures against Denmark would be enforced shortly. "This is official policy, it should be enacted within two or three days," Faidul told The Associated Press. Read more ...
Khartoum - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is threatening to expel Danish organisations, snub its officials and boycott the country's products in reaction to cartoons republished in Denmark criticising Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the presidential palace and state news agency said Sunday.
Al-Bashir met with the leaders of his ruling National Congress Party on Saturday to devise a response to Denmark after 17 Danish newspapers published a cartoon earlier this month that shows Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban.
The president "has directed that all Danish officials and diplomats should not be received by Sudanese officials and that all Danish organisations operating in the country should be expelled and all Danish goods boycotted," the state-run SUNA news agency said on Sunday.
Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said it hadn't been advised on the presidential ruling. "As far as this ministry is concerned, we have not yet received anything," spokesperson Ali Sadiq said on the telephone.
But the Sudanese presidential spokesperson, Mahzoub Faidul, said the measures against Denmark would be enforced shortly. "This is official policy, it should be enacted within two or three days," Faidul told The Associated Press. Read more ...
Source: Independent Online
H/T: Atlas
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