'No Elsa, there is no arms plant in Saudi Arabia'
'No Elsa, there is no arms plant in Saudi Arabia'
An 8-year-old Swedish school girl who penned a letter to the prime minister seeking answers about why Sweden was building a weapons factory in Saudi Arabia has finally received an answer.
Elsa Kempe, who lives with her family in Lund in southern Sweden, was disturbed to hear reports several months ago that Sweden was engaged in helping Saudi Arabia build a weapons factory.
The news was all the more frustrating for the precocious young girl because she had previously been told by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt that he was working to reduce weapons.
"She first wrote to the prime minister about a year ago after seeing so many news reports about weapons in Sweden," her father Magnus told The Local.
"She asked why weapons exist in the first place and Reinfeldt wrote back saying he was doing his best to get rid of the weapons."
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