The Swedish Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that its embassy in Baghdad was removed temporally to Stockholm for security reasons after it was stormed by protesters.
Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on Thursday in protest at a planned burning of the Quran in Stockholm that led hundreds of protesters to attack and vandalize the embassy in the Iraqi capital.
“What has happened is completely unacceptable and the government strongly condemns these attacks,” Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom indicated in a statement.
Meanwhile, Iraq called for holding an Islamic summit to discuss the desecration of the Quran in Sweden.
Ahmed Al Sahaf, a spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, revealed that Minister Fuad Hussein had urged an emergency session of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation.
“Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein is intensifying his efforts with our Arab and Islamic counterparts to hold the Islamic Summit Conference and have an emergency session at a ministerial level to discuss the repercussions of Islamophobia and the burning of the Quran,” Al Sahaf said.
