Stockholm, correspondence - U.S. diplomatic telegrams sent by Wikileaks in Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet report, Friday 21 January, the efforts of several Swedish ministers to limit the entry of Iraqi refugees in Sweden. These documents, which make much noise in Sweden are published even though the Scandinavian kingdom is engaged currently in a series of expulsions of Iraqi asylum seekers who have provoked demonstrations in several cities in Sweden and dozens arrests.Wednesday, twenty Iraqis were deported to central Iraq after their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights was rejected. The Swedish government said the overall situation had improved in Iraq and that Iraqi Christians no longer feared risk of persecution. A decision harshly criticized by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, who countered that the leakage current of thousands of Christians was an indication to the contrary.
Twenty-five protesters were arrested Wednesday morning outside the office of the Migration Agency in Märsta near Stockholm. The day before, near Gothenburg, western, police arrested 70 protesters who were close to a transit camp to prevent the deportation of a group of Iraqis. Sweden has responded to critics by saying that each case was considered individually.
The authorities are much quieter with respect to information emerging from diplomatic telegrams. During a visit to Iraq in 2007, Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs Conservative and Billström, the minister responsible for immigration, during talks with U.S. officials, had expressed their concern vis-à- vis the magnitude of Iraqi immigration in Sweden.
The ministers argued that immigration was so great that the Swedish opinion now demanded a tougher immigration policy. During the meeting, Carl Bildt insisted, according to Swedish media, for Iraq to accept failed asylum seekers. Otherwise, reportedly said Carl Bildt, Sweden would not reopen an embassy in Baghdad.
The ministers Swedish opinion was moving because of several cases of honor killings. The ministers will also find many Iraqis came to Sweden were often poor and uneducated, and therefore even more difficult to assimilate in Sweden. None of these statements was neither confirmed nor commented on by the ministers concerned but the reactions are numerous in Sweden.
The Constitutional Council should be seized. "I do not believe they said something as abominable," responded Cecilia Wikström, Liberal MEP of the same political camp as ministers. "The Conservatives have adapted to xenophobic forces", criticized Bodil Ceballo, the Greens. The agreement between Iraq and Sweden was signed in 2008, the Swedish embassy in Baghdad has reopened its doors just last year.
Between 2007 and 2010, some 30,000 Iraqis sought asylum in Sweden. About two-thirds of them were granted the right to stay. Olivier Truc
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