Thread: Sweden PM : US . EU must admit more Iraq refugees

Sweden PM: US, EU must admit more Iraq refugees
By MALIN RISING Associated Press Writer
Article Launched: 05/27/2008 12:03:22 PM MDT


Sweden—Sweden's prime minister urged the United States and European countries to step up and admit more Iraqi refugees and said Tuesday that his Scandinavian country has shouldered too much of the burden.
In an interview ahead of a U.N. conference on Iraq, Fredrik Reinfeldt noted that while most Iraqi refugees have fled to neighboring countries, Sweden has taken in more than any other Western country.

"Sweden has done very much of the job and less has been done by others, and I think that basically that's wrong," Reinfeldt told The Associated Press at his waterfront office in Stockholm.

Sweden, which opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, has received about 40,000 Iraqis since 2003. The U.S. admitted just more than 1,600 Iraqi refugees in the 2007 fiscal year, but the Bush administration aims to take in 12,000 Iraqi refugees by the end of September.

Reinfeldt, who took office in 2006, said he will discuss the issue with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she arrives for the conference this week.

"I understand that for some of the people in Iraq, the United States is the No. 1 aggressor, so not all of them would like to see a future in the U.S.," he said. "But still I think it is (fair) to say they (Washington) should take their responsibility in this circumstance."

Reinfeldt also called on other European Union nations to share the responsibility.

"The EU has said that we should have (a) common asylum
system already by 2010," he said. "That needs to be shown with more even burden-sharing already."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also are attending the conference Thursday in Stockholm, along with ministers from Arab states, Iran and Britain.

During the conference, Iraqi government officials will present a review of their efforts in key areas such as security, electricity and water supply, the control of oil assets, corruption and the functioning of election laws, Reinfeldt said.


The feeling is mutual



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Sweden, which opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, has received about 40,000 Iraqis since 2003.

That is their choice.

Bush can put them up at his Crawford Texas Ranch

Think BushCo has Ever kiss the hand of a regular Muslim ? Hell No . Crawford it is . Sweden send them to Crawford , Tx by UPS Airdrop will do. Dubya can clean up the mess. He's real good at messes'

Sweden—Sweden's prime minister urged the United States and European countries to step up and admit more Iraqi refugees and said Tuesday that his Scandinavian country has shouldered too much of the burden.

"The EU has said that we should have (a) common asylum
system already by 2010," he said. "That needs to be shown with more even burden-sharing already."

The Swedish prime minister calls Iraqi refugees a BURDEN.

Sweden evidently believes it has a right to dictate United State's immigration policies.

The Swedish government owned Absolut Vodka when their ad featured this map:



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The PM never said WHY he had to accept these immigrants. WHY? He didn't have to accept them at all. If he didn't want to be dictated to by the EU, then he should have never let Sweden join.