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Diplomatic snub for Dutch minister in Suriname - by Ivan Cairo
PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Suriname's president, Ronald Venetiaan, and vice-president, Ramdien Sardjoe, both cancelled courtesy calls Monday with visiting minister, Agnes van Ardenne, from the Netherlands.Sources within the government confirmed that the cancellation is a diplomatic and political response for the unacceptable treatment Surinamese nationals are receiving at the Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands.
Vice-president Sardjoe later told a Dutch newspaper that the decision has to do with the dissatisfaction with the “incorrect treatment” the Suriname minister of Labour received two weeks ago at the Schiphol Airport. Minister Joyce Amarello-Williams on transit from China to Suriname, despite protests from officials from the Surinamese embassy in the Netherlands, was body-searched by immigration personnel at the airport. "Suriname is considered one of the most important drug conduits in South America towards Europe. Former Suriname dictator Bouterse, presently a member of the Suriname parliament was convicted on July 1999 in absentia in the Netherlands for cocaine-trafficking. The Netherlands has an international warrant for his arrest which makes it almost impossible for him to leave Suriname. Although he has been convicted in the Netherlands, he has remained free in Suriname."
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