"What's Phuket?"

"I didn't know what Phuket was," said Laila Freivalds, Sweden's foreign minister this week, trying to explain the late response of the Swedish government to the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake/Tsunami.

Not a response likely to endear her to the 200,000 Swedes who vacation there every year, or the 600 dead or missing in the catastrophe...