Article 6X5BM Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives

Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives

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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspon
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City official says it will not comply with request seeking to impose Donald Trump's rollback of diversity measures

A city official in Stockholm has said the municipality has no plans to comply after one of its offices received a letter seeking to impose Donald Trump's rollback of diversity measures, in what is believed to be the first such missive sent to a foreign government.

It's so bizarre," said Jan Valeskog, Stockholm's vice-mayor for planning. It's our political priorities that count, not the ones from this embassy or any other embassies."

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