The resolution was strongly opposed by the United States and the European Union, who say it conflicts with their view on human rights and freedom of expression.
Over the next 2 days, NATO states will discuss various key issues, from regional defence deals and Sweden’s membership to strategising for the next phase of the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference have periodically lobbied for blasphemy to be made a global offence. But they have been soft on violations of human rights in Sharia law.
The protest comes after a man burned a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm Wednesday. Following the incident, the Iraq Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden's ambassador.
Sweden applied to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Due to objections from Turkey and Hungary, Sweden now intends to join NATO at a summit in Lithuania next month.
The end of the Cold War in the 1990s brought an end to the ideological spheres of influence that had defined the post-World War II period, envisioned as a fight between the capitalist West and the communist East.
Former RBI governor says India is now expected to remain the fastest-growing major economy; self-reliance gives India economic resilience and foreign policy autonomy.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, almost every member of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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