The Ambassador of Sweden to Azerbaijan (known formally as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Republic of Azerbaijan) is the official representative of the government of Sweden to the president of Azerbaijan and government of Azerbaijan.
History In a report on the reorganization of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in early January 1921, it was proposed that the head of mission in Constantinople also be accredited to Baku, Sofia, Belgrade, Athens, Tbilisi, and eventually Armenia. However, the experts recommended that, for the time being, the minister be accredited only to Sofia.
On 16 January 1992, the Swedish government recognized the Republic of Azerbaijan as an independent state. On 7 May 1992, the Swedish government decided to enter into an agreement with Azerbaijan to establish diplomatic relations. The agreement entered into force on 8 May 1992, upon its signing in Baku by Ambassador Örjan Berner on behalf of Sweden, and Hussein Sadychov on behalf of Azerbaijan. That same year, Sweden's ambassador in Moscow, Örjan Berner, was also accredited as ambassador to Azerbaijan.
The ambassador in Moscow remained accredited to Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, until 2006, when a Stockholm-based ambassador for the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) assumed the accreditation.
Sweden opened an embassy in Baku on 3 March 2014. As before, the ambassador was based in Stockholm. In the absence of the ambassador, the embassy was headed by a chargé d'affaires ad interim. Until the embassy's opening, Sweden had been represented in Azerbaijan by an honorary consulate (established in February 1998). The honorary consulate was closed in connection with the opening of the Swedish embassy. The embassy was officially inaugurated by the Minister for Foreign Trade, Ewa Björling, on 12 June 2014.
List of representatives NamePeriodResident / Non-residentTitleResident / Concurrent accreditationNotesPresented credentialsRefÖrjan Berner1992–1994 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in MoscowSven Hirdman1994–1997 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in MoscowMichael Sahlin1997–1998 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in AnkaraHenrik Liljegren1998–2001 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in AnkaraAnn Dismorr2001–2005 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in AnkaraHans AdénSeptember 2006 – 2010 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in StockholmMikael ErikssonMarch 2011 – October 2015 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in Stockholm2 December 2011Tomas Danestad2014 – July 2017 ResidentChargé d'affaires ad interimIngrid Tersman2015–2020 Non-residentAmbassadorResident in Stockholm18 January 2016Christian KamillSeptember 2017 – September 2020 ResidentChargé d'affaires ad interimChristian KamillSeptember 2020 – 2022 ResidentAmbassadorAlso accredited to Bishkek24 September 2020Tobias LorentzsonAugust 2022 – 2026 ResidentAmbassador16 August 2022Louise MorsingAugust 2026 – present ResidentAmbassador
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See also Azerbaijan–Sweden relations
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