(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Westerwelle said in a statement his country opposed 'the desecration of religious symbols.'
He also voiced shock over the killing of eight foreign United Nations staff and five Afghans in northern Afghanistan, after a mass demonstration to protest the Quran burning turned violent.
He expressed his sympathies with the victims and their families and offered his condolences to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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