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The Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., is one of Sweden's largest diplomatic missions with more than fifty employees. [1] Since 2023, the ambassador has been Urban Ahlin. Sweden also has a Consulate General in New York City and in San Francisco [2] and a number of Honorary Consulates General in the United States. [3]
On 30 August 2012, Sweden closed its embassy in Minsk, with the Estonian Embassy charged with representing Swedish interests in Belarus. [10] On 2 November 2016, the embassy in Lima, Peru, was re-opened. [11] Six days later, on 8 November the embassy in Manila, Philippines, was re-opened, eight years after it was closed down.
The Embassy of Sweden, The Hague is the diplomatic mission of Sweden in The Hague. The Netherlands is the first country with which Sweden exchanged permanent ambassadors, a relationship established in 1614. The embassy's primary role is to monitor, represent, and advance Swedish interests within the Netherlands and international organizations ...
This article lists diplomatic missions resident in Sweden.At present, the capital city of Stockholm hosts 109 embassies. Several countries have ambassadors accredited to Sweden, with most being resident in Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, or London.
[15] [16] Between 1971 and 1974, the embassy's consular department was located at 125 Avenue des Champs-Élysées. [17] [16] Since 1974, the chancery and residence is located at 17 rue Barbet de Jouy at Rive Gauche in the 7th arrondissement. The embassy site was bought in 1959 by the Swedish state for 2 million Swedish krona. [18]
The embassy building was built in 1839 to be businessman J. H. Heidenstrauchs home. It became a diplomatic mission in the 1920s. It was originally designed by architect A. F. Granstedt, but after becoming a diplomatic mission, it was heavily changed. The architect of this was Swedish Torben Grut, who designed it to look like the Stockholm Palace.
Diplomatic relations between Sweden and Japan were established in 1868. [1] Due to letters patent on 11 November 1870, the care of the Sweden–Norway's interests there was handed over to the Dutch trade representation, which employed consuls and vice-consuls partly in Yokohama and Tokyo (Dutch legation), partly in Nagasaki, as well as in Osaka and Hyōgo.
During the night of 18 June 1944, a bombing occurred near the Swedish legation as part of Schalburgtage when the Domus Medica hotel at Amaliegade 5 was attacked. [6] In September 1947, the Swedish legation was upgraded to an embassy and envoy Gustaf von Dardel thereby became ambassador to the Danish court. [7]