Towering over a busy roundabout in downtown Stockholm is a bronze statue of King Gustav II Adolph on his horse. Almost 400 years after Gustav II conquered northern Europe, Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, is shaking up the world not with weapons, but words, in an ornate yellow building just across the street. Since taking her post in October last year, the veteran Social Democratic politician has recognised the Palestinian state, denounced Saudi Arabia’s “medieval” floggings and adopted a “feminist foreign policy” that includes calling for a halt to sexual violence against women in war.
在瑞典首都斯德哥爾摩市區(qū)一處交通繁忙的環(huán)形樞紐處，矗立著騎跨駿馬的瑞典國(guó)王古斯塔夫二世(King Gustav II Adolph)的青銅塑像。在古斯塔夫二世征服北歐近400年后，就在街對(duì)面那幢裝飾華麗的黃色建筑里，瑞典外長(zhǎng)瑪戈特?瓦爾斯特倫(Margot Wallstrom)靠驚人之語、而不是靠揮舞武器接連不斷震驚世界。自去年10月出任外長(zhǎng)后，這位老資格的社民黨政客已先后承認(rèn)巴勒斯坦國(guó)，公開指責(zé)沙特的鞭笞刑罰仍停留于“中世紀(jì)”、以及奉行“女權(quán)主義的外交政策”，這其中就包括呼吁在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中停止對(duì)女性施行性暴力。