Conference turris::scandia

444.0. "Diplomats recalled, diplomats expelled" by TLE::SAVAGE () Tue Jan 08 1991 11:27

    From: [email protected]
    Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,
	clari.news.hot.east_europe
    Subject: Sweden expels Soviet, Chinese diplomats
    Date: 3 Jan 91 05:38:35 GMT
 
 
    	STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) -- Sweden announced Wednesday it has
    expelled three Soviets and three Chinese diplomats for carrying out
    activities incompatible with their status in the country.	The foreign
    ministry said the Soviets and Chinese had been told to leave Sweden and
    had returned home during the Christmas holidays.   Foreign Ministry
    Spokesman Rune Sjoberg said China responded to the Swedish move by
    ordering Britta Kinnemark-Lander, first secretary at the Swedish
    Embassy in China, and her family to leave the country by Jan. 10.

    	A Foreign Ministry statement said the three unnamed Soviets,
    including one diplomat, had been under surveillance for "some time" by
    the Swedish secret police, and a report from police authorities led to
    the government decision to send them out of the country.  The statement
    added that their activities had not hurt Swedish interests, but could
    have done so had they been allowed to continue.   It was not
    immediately clear what activities the three had been involved in, but
    Sweden's secret police has repeatedly warned Swedish companies in
    recent months to be on their guard against attempts at industrial
    espionage.	The Soviet and Chinese embassies refused to comment on the
    expulsions.

    	Sjoberg said the Chinese who had been expelled had "not carried out
    activities against Swedish interests," but that their actions had
    nonetheless been illegal.	He declined to say how the three diplomats
    had broken Swedish law, but Sweden's national news agency TT reported
    the diplomats had followed political activities among Chinese students
    in Sweden.

    	Diplomatic sources in China also said the Chinese were expelled
    from Stockholm for efforts to spy on dissident Chinese students and
    intellectuals now living in Sweden.	"The embassy there was involved in
    trying to map their activities," one source said.	The targeted
    dissidents had been involved either in China or abroad with the
    pro-democracy movement in the spring of 1989, crushed by the Chinese
    army that June.

   From: [email protected]
   Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.issues.conflict,
	clari.news.europe
   Subject: Spanish diplomat recalled
   Date: 11 Jan 92 16:43:22 GMT
 
 
	STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) -- Spain has recalled one of its senior
diplomats from Sweden for having contacts with the Cuban intelligence
service, news reports in Stockholm said Saturday.
	The reports said the unnamed diplomat, second in rank at the embassy,
was recalled after the Swedish government informed Madrid that he had
met intelligence officers based at the Cuban embassy in Stockholm.
	It was not clear whether Sweden had expelled the diplomat or whether
it had simply informed Spanish authorities of his activities.
	"Of course we know there is a case, but we are not commenting on it
today," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Rosen.
	"We may comment on it in a couple of days," he added but refused to
give further details. Officials at the Spanish embassy were not
available for comment.

    From: [email protected] (UPI)
    Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe
    Subject: Iran orders out three Swedish diplomats
    Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 8:15:52 PST
 
	ATHENS (UPI) -- Iran has ordered three Swedish diplomats to leave the
country after charging them with "committing acts incompatible with
their diplomatic status," the official Islamic Republic News Agency
said Thursday.
	The move followed Stockholm's decision to expel three Iranian
diplomats following allegations they were involved in a plot to kill
Iranian exiles.
	The Swedish ambassador in Tehran was summoned to the Foreign Ministry
and told three members of his diplomatic staff had "committing acts
incompatible with their diplomatic status," an IRNA dispatch monitored
in Athens said.
	The ambassador was told the Swedish diplomats had been declared
persona non grata and had to leave the country. IRNA did not name the
Swedish diplomats or say by what date they were required to leave Iran.
	A statement issued by the Baghdad-based Mojahedin Khalq Organization,
an Iranian opposition group in exile, said Iran's diplomats in Sweden
had been involved in a plot to kill members of the group.