Dahl-Hansen has said that he will not leave Bosnia-Herzegovina and that the embassy in Sarajevo will not be closed because he believes that the situation in the country will not become more radical.
"I believe that Bosnia-Herzegovina has embarked on the road towards the European Union, and the mood is much more different than in some Middle East countries where the situation has gone out of control," the diplomat told the Bosnian edition of the Vecernji List daily commenting on the protests and revolt which controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper provoked in countries with a majority Muslim population.
The Danish ambassador particularly thanked the head of the Islamic community in Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric, for having called on the Islamic faithful to behave prudently and for having stated that it was dialogue rather than protests that could show that the offensive cartoons inflicted injustice on Muslims.