Serious NATO gossip
Monday, March 23rd, 2009There has been talk about it in the Danish newspapers for a long time, but I’ve always considered it gossip: the Danish prime mimster Anders Fogh Rasmussen as secretary general for NATO. However, now IHT.com is writing that the Canadian minister of defence has dropped out of the race. But the Turks are blocking for Mr. Fogh Rasmussen:
“The Turks have objected to Mr. Rasmussen, citing these larger concerns. The Danish problem dates back to the publication in some Danish newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Denmark also allows supporters of the P.K.K., a Kurdish separatist group outlawed in Turkey, to operate a television station there.“
Instead the post might go to the Norwegian foreign minister:
“If Turkey did not go along, another senior European official said, there was the possibility of turning to the Norwegian foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Store, 49, who has studied both in the United States and in Paris.
“So in the end the cartoon-crisis may hit Mr. Fogh Rasmussen in the head once again, which he probably deserves…