Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Sweden And France Tell Hamas, No Visas For You

They did the right thing:


HELSINKI (AFP) - Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson has said two leading Hamas officials hoping to visit Sweden this month would not be allowed entry after France denied them a visa.

Sweden and France are signatories of the so-called Schengen accords between EU members and others, which grant freedom of travel within their borders to visitors having obtained a visa from any other member country.

Hamas parliamentary group spokesman Salah Muhammad al-Bardawil and Hamas official Mohammad al-Rantissi were to visit Malmoe in southern Sweden on May 16 following an invitation by a local association.

1 comment:

leap_frog said...

Ops, flip/flop now they've reversed that and are letting them in for business...

schumcks.

Given their track record in WWII, perhaps they are banking on getting away with -ahem, appeasement again.