List of diplomatic missions of Sweden
The Kingdom of Sweden has a moderately sized diplomatic network of 78 embassies and 7 consulates general, supplemented by honorary consulates, cultural centres and trade missions. In countries without Swedish representation, Swedish citizens can seek assistance from public officials in the foreign services of any of the other Nordic countries, in accordance with the Helsinki Treaty.[1][2]
Of note Sweden was the first Western country to have an embassy in Pyongyang.[3] 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.[4][5]
History
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.[6]
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.[7]
In August 2011, an agreement between the Social Democrats and the governing Reinfeldt Cabinet was announced, with the purpose of keeping the Swedish embassies in Argentina, Vietnam, Malaysia and Angola open.[8]
On August 30, 2012, Sweden closed its embassy in Minsk, with the Estonian Embassy charged with representing Swedish interests in Belarus.[9]
On November 2, 2016, the Swedish Embassy was re-opened in Lima, Peru.[10] Six days later, on November 8, the Swedish Embassy in Manila, Philippines, was re-opened, eight years after it was closed down.
In November 2021 the Swedish government announced that it would re-open embassies in Dublin and Brussels, and open a consulate-general in San Francisco.[11] In November 2022, the embassy in Luanda closed and in the same year the embassy in Lima, which had reopened in 2016, also closed.[12][13]
Present missions
Africa
Host country | Host city | Mission | Concurrent accreditation | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Algeria | Algiers | Embassy | [14] | |
Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | Embassy | [15] | |
Congo-Kinshasa | Kinshasa | Embassy | Countries: |
[16] |
Egypt | Cairo | Embassy | [17] | |
Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | Embassy | Countries: International Organizations: |
[18] |
Kenya | Nairobi | Embassy | Countries: International Organizations: |
[19] |
Liberia | Monrovia | Embassy | Countries: |
[20] |
Mali | Bamako | Embassy | [21] | |
Mozambique | Maputo | Embassy | Countries: |
[22] |
Morocco | Rabat | Embassy | [23] | |
Nigeria | Abuja | Embassy | International Organizations: |
[24] |
Rwanda | Kigali | Embassy | [25] | |
South Africa | Pretoria | Embassy | International Organizations: |
[26] |
South Sudan | Juba | Embassy office[lower-alpha 2] | [27] | |
Sudan | Khartoum | Embassy | Countries: |
[27] |
Tanzania | Dar Es Salaam | Embassy | [28] | |
Tunisia | Tunis | Embassy | Countries: |
[29] |
Uganda | Kampala | Embassy | Countries: |
[30] |
Zambia | Lusaka | Embassy | [31] | |
Zimbabwe | Harare | Embassy | [32] |
Americas
Host country | Host city | Mission | Concurrent accreditation | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Brazil | Brasília | Embassy | [33] | |
Argentina | Buenos Aires | Embassy | [34] | |
Bolivia | La Paz | Embassy | [35] | |
Canada | Ottawa | Embassy | [36] | |
Chile | Santiago de Chile | Embassy | Countries: |
[37] |
Colombia | Bogotá | Embassy | [38] | |
Cuba | Havana | Embassy | [39] | |
Guatemala | Guatemala City | Embassy | Countries: |
[40] |
Mexico | Mexico City | Embassy | [41] | |
United States | Washington, D.C. | Embassy | International Organizations: |
[42][43] |
New York City | Consulate-General | [44] |
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Host country | Host city | Mission | Concurrent accreditation | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Australia | Canberra | Embassy | Countries: |
[114] |
Multilateral organizations
Organization | Host city | Host country | Mission | Concurrent accreditation | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Council of Europe | Strasbourg | France | Permanent Representation | [115] | |
European Union | Brussels | Belgium | Permanent Representation | [116] | |
NATO | Brussels | Belgium | Delegation | [117] | |
OECD | Paris | France | Delegation | International Organizations: |
[118] |
United Nations | New York City | United States | Permanent Mission | [119] | |
Geneva | Switzerland | Permanent Mission | International Organizations: |
[120] | |
OSCE | Vienna | Austria | Delegation | [121] |
Closed missions
Africa
Americas
- Ecuador
- Quito (Embassy) – closed in 1992
- Peru
- Nicaragua
- Managua (Embassy) – closed in 2008
- United States
- Los Angeles (Consulate-General) – closed in 2009[123]
- Uruguay
- Montevideo (Embassy) – closed in 1993
- Venezuela
- Caracas (Embassy) – closed in 2000
Asia
Europe
- Belgium
- Brussels (Embassy) – closed in 2011
- Bulgaria
- Sofia (Embassy) – closed in 2010
- Luxembourg
- Luxembourg City (Embassy) – closed in 2010
- Russia
- Kaliningrad (Consulate-General) – closed in 2009[123]
- Slovakia
- Bratislava (Embassy) – closed in 2010
- Slovenia
- Ljubljana (Embassy) – closed in 2010
- Vatican City
- Holy See (Embassy) – closed in 2001
Oceania
- New Zealand
- Wellington (Embassy) – closed in 1995
Gallery
- Building housing the embassy in Athens
- Embassy in Bern
- Permanent Mission to the European Union in Brussels
- Embassy in Budapest
- Embassy in The Hague
- Consulate-General in Istanbul
- Embassy in Kyiv
- Embassy in La Paz
- Embassy in Lisbon
- Embassy in Madrid
- Embassy in Oslo
- Embassy in Riga
- Embassy in Sarajevo
- Embassy in Skopje
- Embassy in Tallinn
- Embassy in Tbilisi
- Embassy in Tirana
- Embassy in Vienna
- Embassy in Vilnius
- Embassy in Warsaw
- Embassy in Yerevan
See also
Notes
- Accredited as an observer mission.
- Subordinate to the Swedish embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.
- Accredited as an observer mission.
- Subordinate to the Swedish embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Subordinate to the Swedish embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Although officially titled as a consular mission in Jerusalem, it is physically located in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, and is accredited to the territories that comprise the State of Palestine: the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- The Swedish Ambassador to the Holy See is based in Stockholm. However, Sweden maintains a chancery of the Holy See in Rome, outside Vatican territory.
- Reopened in 2023.
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- "Embassy of Sweden - New Delhi, India". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
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