the head of Mission of the United Nations said the violence it would not go by Afghanistan President Barack Obama was the murders in Afghanistan described as "outrageous" by the burning of a Quran in the United States last month triggered.Mr Obama said the desecration of a holy text was "an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry", but it does not justify to kill innocent people.
An attack on a UN base in the city of Mazar-e Sharif on Friday killed 14 people, seven United Nations staff from you.
A top UN official has the parish priest held responsible, which burned the Quran for the violence.
At least 10 people were killed and many others were injured in the Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday in a second day of protests.
'No justification'While a service of the dove on 20 March Pastor Wayne Sapp a Quran in a kerosene soaked world outreach center in Florida, staged a "trial" during the Islamic Holy Book of the "crimes against humanity" guilty was found, and set it aLicht.
The incident took place under the supervision of Pastor Terry Jones, who last year drew condemnation of his aborted plan, copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States burn.
Said Pastor Terry Jones (L) and Wayne Sapp (R) not feel for the attack on the UN responsiblePublished in a statement on Saturday night, Mr Obama extended his condolences to the families of the victims of the demonstrators in Afghanistan.
"The desecration of a holy text, including the Qur'an, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry," he said. "However, is attacking and killing innocent people in reaction outrageous, and an affront to human decency and would."
"No religion condones the slaughter and beheading innocent people, and there is no justification for a dishonourable and regrettable Act."
The President said it was time to "Draw on the common humanity that we share and that came as the UN workers, trying to help the people in Afghanistan".
Continue reading the most important storywe are the fault of the person that produced the message - should the Koran burned "end quote Staffan de Mistura head, United Nations support mission in Afghanistan earlier, the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama) Staffan de Mistura", said during a visit to Mazar-e Sharif, that the only person who could be made responsible for the violence was American.
"I don't think that we should be all Afghan debt." We should be blaming the person that produced the message - that burned the Koran. "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from the culture, religion and traditions."
He also insisted that Friday's attack "not the UN presence, activities in this country in this period soft and particularly critical of should".
The UN however temporarily provide would, 11 staff from Mazar-e Sharif to Kabul, while its rebuilt Office was, he said.
"This is no evacuation," he added. "We are ready to go back, once we can create an Office, which sure enough is."
The authorities in Kandahar and Mazar-e Sharif have blamed for the violence of the Taliban. However, the Taliban has rejected the accusation.
The BBC's Paul wood says that the authorities in Kandahar have blamed the Taliban for the protestsPastor Jones has said, that the Dove world outreach center congregation not "responsible feel" for the attack.
"[The burning of the Qur'an] takes the radical element of Islam as an excuse to promote their violent activities,", he said told AFP.
Witnesses said that the protest in Mazar-e Sharif, which began outside the Central Blue Mosque after Friday prayers, began peacefully, but suddenly violent turned.
The masses moved outside the UN compound, where a small group broke away.
Several protestors were guards on the compound killed, who were then overwhelmed by the mob.
Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman who said Governor of the province of Balkh, the Group seized arms from the guards and stormed the building. Four Nepalese guards, a Norwegian, a Romanian and Swede died.
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