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Store lifts ban on Danish dairy firm
The Cooperative Union has lifted its ban against the Danish dairy giant Arla Foods, a senior executive told journalists on Sunday.
- Staff Report
- Published: 00:00 May 1, 2006
Sharjah: The Cooperative Union has lifted its ban against the Danish dairy giant Arla Foods, a senior executive told journalists on Sunday.
"It was decided at the general assembly meeting in Abu Dhabi on April 17," he said.
But he added it was up to individual cooperatives as to when they wished to lift the boycott.
Danish dairy products were already back on the shelves of many supermarkets early last month following a call to lift the boycott by Muslim scholars.
However, when Gulf News visited various co-ops in Sharjah and Dubai on Sunday no Arla products were on the shelves.
A spokesman for Sharjah Cooperative Society had earlier said it would continue the boycott because the Danish government has not yet apologised over the publication of cartoons that mocked the Prophet.
The paper, Jyllands-Posten, which first published the cartoons has apologised but says it stands by its decision to print them, citing the right of freedom of speech.
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