COPENHAGEN (AFX) - Danish daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten is talking to Danish Muslim representatives about a joint declaration, news agency Ritzaus Bureau reported, citing Carsten Juste, chief editor at Jyllands-Posten.
Juste has agreed to a proposal for talks by Ahmed Akkari, spokesman for 27 Danish Muslim organizations, to help calm worldwide tensions over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in the daily.
Juste said any declaration should contain an apology by the paper -- for having offended Muslims, not for publishing the cartoons -- as well as a Muslim statement accepting Denmark's culture of free expression.
But Juste also said he was uncertain how useful a declaration would be, given that Jyllands-Posten already apologized a week ago for hurting Muslim feelings.
'Maybe it's a bit futile,' he said.
