Anders Lago (born 31 October 1956) is a Swedish

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politician and former mayor () of

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, Sweden. On 10 April 2008, Lago participated in a hearing before the Helsinki Commission, the independent

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, where he claimed that his small city of about 80,000 was now home to nearly 6,000

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is; "more

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s than the

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together".Bush administration says U.S. on target for admitting of Iraqi refugees
The International Herald Tribune, April 11, 2008. Lago served as mayor from 1998 to 2011.

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