Prime Minister Francois Fillon hinted that he disliked the crude links being made between foreigners and crime, while Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he considered resigning over the issue.
The number of tourists visiting France has dropped 7% since January, with foreigners deterred by terror attacks, bad weather and transport strikes, the foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, has said.
South Africa's foreign minister has called an urgent meeting with ambassadors following attacks against foreigners in Durban.
South Africa foreign minister hold meeting on Monday wit ambassadors of different kontris, afta attacks against foreigners inside Durban.
It is popular with foreigners and is owned by the Rabbani family, whose members include Afghanistan's current Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, and its late former President, Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Khrushchev described his loyal foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, as "a piece of shit" — a favorite expression usually reserved for rivals or foreigners.
"The opposition says we're just opening the locks and there will be a flood of foreigners," Interior Minister Otto Schily, a former Green, said in a brief interview.
"As abominable as the crimes in Cologne and other cities were, one thing remains clear: there is no justification for blanket agitation against foreigners," justice minister Heiko Maas said, adding that some people "appear just to have been waiting for the events of Cologne".
Since launching the crackdown, Turkey has detained a total of 5,803 people, of which about 2,200 were foreigners, the minister said, without giving a precise period.
Turkey has arrested 865 people since the start of 2016 in its fight against Islamic State, and more than half of those were foreigners, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in remarks broadcast on Turkish television channels on Wednesday.
