STOCKHOLM, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish government says it will not meet with a member of the Hamas group scheduled to visit southern Sweden in May, Radio Sweden reported on Friday.

    Salah Muhammad al-Bardawil, the Hamas group leader in the Palestinian parliament, will visit Malmo on May the 16th as the guest of three local Palestinian organizations.

    The trip's organizer said the objective was to put forward a series of viewpoints around the Palestinians' recent election of Hamas, and urge the Swedish government to resume diplomatic relations with the Palestinian authorities.

    Sweden, in line with the rest of the European Union, does not have political contacts with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

    Sweden's Foreign Ministry said it was not aware of the Hamas visit, but said Hamas members were not banned from entering the country.

    According to a foreign ministry spokesperson, no representative of the Swedish government will meet the representative, adding that the government was not involved in the visit.

    Hamas is on the European Union's and the United States' lists of terrorist organizations and both have frozen assistance to the Palestinian Authority. Enditem