• Source: List of ambassadors of Sweden to the Philippines

      • The Ambassador of Sweden to the Philippines (known formally as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Republic of the Philippines) is the official representative of the government of Sweden to the president of the Philippines and government of the Philippines.


      History


      On 17 January 1947, the King in Council decided to recognize the Republic of the Philippines as an independent and sovereign state. Sweden and the Philippines established diplomatic relations that same year. In January 1948, Sweden's envoy in Nanking, Torsten Hammarström, was also appointed as envoy to Manila. From January 1953, the Swedish minister in Jakarta was additionally accredited to Manila. In May 1958, an agreement was reached between the Swedish and Indonesian governments to elevate their respective legations to embassies. As a result, the diplomatic rank was changed from envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to ambassador. Jens Malling, who had previously served as envoy in Jakarta and Manila, was now appointed ambassador.
      Sweden had been represented in Manila since the establishment of a Swedish honorary consulate on 16 November 1839. During the final decades of its existence, the honorary consulate operated under the jurisdiction of the mission in Jakarta. It was elevated to an honorary consulate general in 1955, before being closed in the early 1970s.
      Despite having an unpaid honorary consul general who served until the honorary consulate's closure in the early 1970s, there was a Swedish career consul stationed in Manila from 1963 to 1974. Karl Bertil Eriksson became the last career consul in Manila in 1973. The following year, he was appointed chargé d'affaires and embassy counsellor. On 1 July 1980, Sweden's independent embassy in Manila became operational, and Bo Kälfors, the embassy's counselor, was appointed as Sweden's first resident ambassador.
      On 9 August 1995, Sweden and Palau established diplomatic relations. From the same year, the Swedish ambassador in Manila was accredited to Palau.
      The embassy was closed on 30 June 2008. The responsibility for the Philippines was then transferred to the Swedish ambassador in Bangkok, and the responsibility for Palau was transferred to the Swedish ambassador in Tokyo. Sweden's embassy in Manila was reopened on 8 November 2016. Sweden's new resident ambassador in Manila, Harald Fries, presented his credentials to President Rodrigo Duterte in December of the same year.


      List of representatives




      See also


      Philippines–Sweden relations


      Footnotes




      References




      External links


      Embassy of Sweden, Manila, official website

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