Opponents to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday unfurled a two-kilometre (1.25-mile) banner bearing signatures of his foes on the sidelines of an EU foreign ministers meeting. The green banner, covered with thousands of signatures collected in July from 190 countries and reading "Ahmedinejad is not our president", was held by some 400 demonstrators, organisers said.
The demonstration took place calmly along a popular Stockholm waterfront near the Modern Museum where the ministers were meeting. The banner had already been displayed in Paris at the end of July, according to one of the organisers of Saturday's event, Ashi Hoseini.
The demonstration in Stockholm was a protest against Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election in June, she added. Several hundred others had assembled for another protest against the Iranian president earlier on Saturday.
The foreign ministers of the 27 EU states gathered in Stockholm on Friday and Saturday for an informal meeting where the situation in the Middle East was at the top of the agenda. Sweden has a large Iranian community, estimated at around 80,000 people, including around 57,000 born in Iran and most of whom are exiles from the Islamic regime.