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Sigrid Kaag (Anjum Naveed / AP)

FN-diplomaten: Sverige borde visa solidaritet

FN:s toppdiplomat Sigrid Kaag är kritisk till att Sverige och flera andra EU-länder sagt nej till att ta emot patienter från Gaza. Hon ser inte att länder som Egypten, Förenade Arabemiraten och Qatar kan bära hela ansvaret.

– Det är bara Italien och några länder till som har tagit emot patienter. Jag anser att det här är en fråga om solidaritet, säger Kaag, FN:s samordnare av humanitär hjälp och återuppbyggnad i Gaza, till DN.

Sverige har tackat nej EU-kommissionens förfrågan om att ta emot evakuerade patienter, trots att flera sjukhus konstaterat att det finns nog med resurser och plats.

– Det är en stor kostnad för väldigt få patienter, vi använder våra pengar till insatser som når väldigt många fler, förklarade sjukvårdsminister Acko Ankarberg Johansson (KD) tidigare i veckan.

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Sigrid Kaag
Wikipedia (en)
Sigrid Agnes Maria Kaag (Dutch: [ˈsiɣrɪt ˈɑxnɛs maːˈrijaː ˈkaːx]; born 2 November 1961) is a Dutch politician, humanitarian and diplomat who is the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza since 2024. Kaag most recently served in the fourth Rutte cabinet as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Finance from 2022 to 2024 and has previously served as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was Leader of the Democrats 66 (D66) from 2020 to 2023. A diplomat by occupation, Kaag started working for the United Nations in 1994. She was Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa for UNICEF in Amman from 2007 to May 2010, when she was appointed Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau of External Relations of the UNDP in New York City. From October 2013 to September 2014, she served as Under Secretary-General and Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria to oversee the elimination of the country's chemical weapons program. From January 2015 to October 2017, Kaag was the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL). Kaag entered Dutch politics in 2017 as minister for foreign trade and development cooperation in the third Rutte cabinet on behalf of D66. She ascended to party leadership ahead of the 2021 general election and also served for some months as minister of foreign affairs. When the fourth Rutte cabinet was formed in January 2022, Kaag became first deputy prime Minister and minister of finance. She decided not to run for re-election in 2023 and was succeeded by Rob Jetten as party leader. Kaag resigned as minister in January 2024 to return to the United Nations as senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza.
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