Campaign aims to boost nation’s image

? Denmark will launch a “massive” campaign to improve its global image, which was tattered after a Danish newspaper published caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, the prime minister said Friday.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the campaign was not initiated because of the cartoon crisis but that the uproar had given it additional impetus.

The Danish government has been criticized by Muslim countries for not apologizing for the cartoons published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper on Sept. 30. The government says it cannot be held responsible for the actions of Denmark’s independent media.

The cartoons were reprinted in newspapers worldwide in January and February, sparking a wave of protests primarily in Islamic countries.