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The Embassy of Sweden in Pretoria is Sweden's diplomatic mission in South Africa. The Swedish embassy in South Africa represents the Swedish government in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho. The embassy is located in the suburb of Hatfield in the capital of Pretoria. The ambassador since 2020 is Håkan Juholt.
In 1944, the Swedish consulate general in Pretoria was upgraded to a legation and Harry Eriksson was appointed Sweden's first envoy in South Africa. [1]On 1 November 1993, after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, the Swedish legation was upgraded to an embassy, as one of the last legations in the world. [2]
There are 134 embassies and high commissions in Pretoria, and many countries maintain either an embassy, high commission or consulate in Cape Town and consulates in other major cities. Trade missions and honorary consulates are omitted from this listing. Countries with diplomatic missions in South Africa
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.
Ohlsson joined the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2002. Her assignments included working for the Africa Department, the Swedish embassy in Pretoria and the Swedish office in Kigali (from 2007 to 2009). Another assignment was working as counsellor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cabinet Office.
Pretoria: Sandra Kramer 2022 Roeland van de Geer (2010–2014); Marcus Cornaro (2014–2018); Dr Riina Kionka (2018–2022) South Korea Seoul: Maria Castillo Fernandez 2020 Tomasz Kozłowski (2011–2015); Gerhard Sabathil (2015–2017); Michael Reiterer (2017–2020) South Sudan Juba: Timo Olkkonen 2022
The accreditation for Manila was taken over by the Swedish ambassador in Manila after Sweden opened an embassy in the Philippines in 1980. [9] The Swedish ambassador in Jakarta has also served as the ambassador to Dili since 2002, [10] following the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sweden and Timor-Leste on 20 May of the same year ...
A Swedish embassy was established in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1964, and Ambassador Otto Rathsman there was also accredited as Sweden's first ambassador to Tanzania. In Dar es Salaam, an embassy secretary—later an embassy counselor—was stationed and acted as chargé d'affaires when the ambassador in Nairobi was not in the country.