02-24-2006, 01:43 AM
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Denmark to host conference to calm cartoon crisis
Published in Staging.canada.com
Indexed on Feb 23, 2006
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark will host a conference next month to promote religious dialogue following the uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday. The government will also give "a significant financial contribution" to a UN program aimed at overcoming prejudice between Islam and the West, and support an Islamic festival in Copenhagen, Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said in a statement. The conference on religious and cultural dialogue will take place in the Danish capital on March 10, ministry officials said.
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