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Sweden and Cuba in diplomatic row

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 21 (UPI) -- A diplomatic row has erupted between Sweden and Cuba after Sweden's foreign minister criticized Cuba's human rights record.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt made his critical remarks to the U.N Human Rights Council, the Swedish newspaper The Local reported Wednesday.

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Cuba's delegate to the Human Rights Council, Rodolfo Reyes Rodriguez, retaliated, saying that "Cuba, unlike Sweden, does not persecute migrants or carry out ethnic cleansing that only allows those whose skin and hair color fit with the racial patterns of former Viking conquerors to remain in the country."

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