List of diplomatic missions of Sweden

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Sweden. Sweden has a moderately sized diplomatic network of 80 embassies and 7 consulates general, supplemented by honorary consulates, cultural centres and trade missions. In countries where there is no Swedish mission, according to the Helsinki Treaty, public officials in the foreign services of any of the Nordic countries are to assist citizens of another Nordic country if that country is not represented in the territory concerned.[1]

Map of Swedish diplomatic missions
Seal of a Swedish Embassy.

Of note Sweden was the first Western country to have an embassy in Pyongyang.[2] 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, Canada, and Australia since 1995.[3][4]

In January 2010, the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced that its embassies in Bratislava (Slovakia), Dakar (Senegal), Dublin (Ireland), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), and Sofia (Bulgaria) would be closed down, while existing section offices in Pristina, Tbilisi, Chisinau, Tirana, Bamako, Ouagadougou, Monrovia, Kigali, La Paz and Phnom Penh would be upgraded to embassies.[5]

In December 2010, it was announced by the Swedish Foreign Ministry that an additional five embassies would close down; the embassies affected were the ones in Brussels, Belgium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hanoi, Vietnam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Luanda, Angola.[6]

In August 2011, an agreement between the Social Democrats and the current cabinet of Sweden was announced, with the purpose of keeping the Swedish embassies in Argentina, Vietnam, Malaysia and Angola open.[7]

On August 30, 2012, Sweden closed its embassy in Minsk, with the Estonian Embassy charged with representing Swedish interests in Belarus.[8]

On November 2, 2016 the Swedish Embassy was re-opened in Lima, Peru.[9] Six days later, on November 8, the Swedish Embassy in Manila, Philippines, was re-opened, eight years after it was closed down.

Embassy in Bern
Embassy in Budapest
Embassy in Buenos Aires
Embassy in Copenhagen
Embassy in The Hague
Embassy in Helsinki
Consulate-General in Istanbul
Embassy in Kiev
Embassy in La Paz
Embassy in London
Embassy in Madrid
Embassy in Moscow
Embassy in Oslo
Embassy Ottawa
Embassy in Prague
Embassy in Pyongyang
Embassy in Rome
Embassy in Skopje
Embassy in Tallinn
Embassy in Tbilisi
Embassy in Vienna
Embassy in Vilnius
Embassy in Warsaw
Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania

Multilateral organizations

See also

Notes
  1. The Swedish Embassy to the Holy See is located in Stockholm, Sweden. There is a Swedish chancery of the Holy See in Rome, outside Vatican territory.

References
  1. "Meld. St. 12 (2010–2011)". April 2011.
  2. "About the Embassy". Embassy of Sweden, Pyongyang. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  3. "Om ambassaden" (in Swedish). Embassy of Sweden, Pyongyang. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  4. "Foreign Relations: North Korea". USA.gov. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  5. "Sweden to open embassy in Tirana Albania". Balkans.com. 7 May 2010. Archived from the original on 4 February 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  6. "Sverige stänger fem ambassader". Regeringskansliet. 22 December 2010. Archived from the original on 25 December 2010. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  7. "S backar – ambassader räddas". DN.se. Dagens Nyheter. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  8. "Ambassaden inte öppen för allmänheten | SwedenAbroad". www.swedenabroad.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  9. "Lima | SwedenAbroad". www.swedenabroad.com. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  10. "About the Consulate General". Sweden Abroad. 22 May 2020.
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