Iceland: Britain has devastated our economy
Independent [UK]
10/28/08
An Icelandic minister launched an extraordinary diplomatic attack on the British Government as she issued a direct plea to MPs to help rebuild shattered relations between the two countries. In a letter seen by The Independent, the Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir condemned Britain’s use of anti-terror laws to freeze the assets of Iceland’s crisis-hit banks and protested that the language used by British ministers had caused ‘devastation” in her country. Ms Solrun Gisladottir even accused the Government of provoking attacks on Icelanders visiting Britain by stoking hostility towards her country. ‘Icelanders as a nation have been tarred with the same brush and are suffering real abuse in some cases,’ she said...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
10/28/08
An Icelandic minister launched an extraordinary diplomatic attack on the British Government as she issued a direct plea to MPs to help rebuild shattered relations between the two countries. In a letter seen by The Independent, the Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir condemned Britain’s use of anti-terror laws to freeze the assets of Iceland’s crisis-hit banks and protested that the language used by British ministers had caused ‘devastation” in her country. Ms Solrun Gisladottir even accused the Government of provoking attacks on Icelanders visiting Britain by stoking hostility towards her country. ‘Icelanders as a nation have been tarred with the same brush and are suffering real abuse in some cases,’ she said...
http://tinyurl.com/6ahbju
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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