List of diplomatic missions of Sweden

List of diplomatic missions of Sweden
Map of Swedish diplomatic missions

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Sweden. Sweden has a moderately sized diplomatic network of 78 embassies and 13 consulates general, supplemented by honorary consulates, cultural centres and trade missions that are operated separately.  Of note Sweden was the first Western country to have an embassy in Pyongyang.[1] The embassy in Pyongyang continues to provide limited consular services to citizens of several Western countries without a presence in North Korea and acts as the consular protecting power of the United States since 1995.[2][3]

In January 2010, the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced that its embassies in Bratislava, Dakar, Dublin, Ljubljana, Luxembourg and Sofia will be closed down, while upgrade to embassies existing section offices in Pristina, Tbilisi, Chisinau, Tirana, Bamako, Ouagadougou, Monrovia, Kigali, La Paz and Phnom Penh.[4]

In December 2010, it was announced by the Swedish Foreign Ministry that an additional five embassies would close down; the embassies affected are the ones in Brussels, Belgium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hanoi, Vietnam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Luanda, Angola.[5]

In August 2011, an agreement between the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party and the current cabinet of Sweden was announced, with the purpouse of keeping the Swedish embassies of Argentina, Vietnam, Malaysia and Angola.[6]

Swedish Embassy in Bern
Swedish Embassy in Brussels
Swedish Embassy in Budapest
Swedish Embassy in Copenhagen
Swedish Embassy in Helsinki
Embassy of Sweden in Kiev
Embassy of Sweden in London
Embassy of Sweden in Minsk
Embassy of Sweden in Moscow
Embassy of Sweden in Oslo
Swedish Embassy in Prague
Swedish Embassy in Tallinn
Embassy of Sweden in Tbilisi
Embassy of Sweden in Vilnius
Swedish Embassy in Washington DC

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Asia

Europe

Oceania

Multilateral organisations

See also

References

  1. ^ "About the Embassy". Embassy of Sweden, Pyongyang. http://www.swedenabroad.com/Page____114015.aspx. Retrieved 19 August 2011. 
  2. ^ "Om ambassaden" (in Swedish). Embassy of Sweden, Pyongyang. http://www.swedenabroad.com/Page____114017.aspx. Retrieved 19 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "Foreign Relations: North Korea". USA.gov. http://answers.usa.gov/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURATION=1000&PARTITION_ID=1&CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=10874&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTRY=US. Retrieved 19 August 2011. 
  4. ^ "Sweden to open embassy in Tirana Albania". Balkans.com. 7 May 2010. http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=56577. Retrieved 27 May 2010. 
  5. ^ "Sverige stänger fem ambassader". Regeringskansliet. 22 December 2010. http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/13798/a/158228. Retrieved 27 December 2010. 
  6. ^ "S backar – ambassader räddas". Dagens Nyheter. 1 August 2011. http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/s-backar--ambassader-raddas. Retrieved 6 August 2011. 
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