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New NATO chief pledges conciliation with Muslims
by Daren Butler and Ayla Jean Yackley
Reuters
April 6, 2009
https://www.legal-project.org/247/new-nato-chief-pledges-conciliation-with-muslims
Excerpt:
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday he would pay close attention to religious sensibilities in his new role as NATO chief in comments aimed at allaying Muslim concern at his appointment.
Turkey had threatened to veto the former Danish prime minister's appointment over his handling of a 2006 crisis triggered by cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper.
His comments at an Istanbul conference on Monday fell short of the outright apology which Turkish officials had hoped for.
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