Foreign Minister to file defamation case over DQP’s claims he voted to form State of Israel
25 Jan 2012, 4:34 PM
Foreign Minister Ahmed Naseem has announced he will file a defamation case against the Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP), after it published a pamphlet alleging among other claims that he had secretly voted for the formation of the state of Israel.
“I was not even born then,” Naseem said today. “But the Maldivian public do not know this – many of them don’t know when the state of Israel was created.”
Naseem said people were now shouting at him in the street calling him a “Jew-lover” and making threatening telephone calls following publication of the pamphlet.
The Maldives co-sponsored a resolution to grant Palestine full membership to UNESCO, but the delegation returned before voting.
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