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US envoy retracts 'wrong' claims about Dutch Muslim chaos

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THE HAGUE: The new US ambassador to the Netherlands on Friday walked back comments that Islamic violence had brought chaos to the country, saying his statement was "wrong".

Ambassador Peter Hoekstra told De Telegraaf newspaper that a 2015 remark about politicians being burned in the country "was a wrong statement. That was just wrong."

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