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New Swedish Government Scraps 'Feminist Foreign Policy'

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The country’s “feminist foreign policy,” introduced by Sweden’s previous left-wing administration less than ten years ago, is being abandoned, according to the country’s current government. Tobias Billström, Sweden’s recently appointed foreign minister, claimed that the Social Democrats’ strategy was detrimental to Sweden’s international goals. Former... 

Belarus expels Swedish ambassador

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The Swedish Foreign Minister says Belarus has expelled his country’s ambassador to Minsk “for being too supportive of human rights.” “Outrageous. Shows nature of [President Aleksandr Lukashenko] regime,” Carl Bildt wrote in his twitter micro-blog on Friday. “We have said that the new Belarus ambassador to Sweden is not welcome and have asked two other diplomats to leave,” the minister... 

Sweden urges diplomacy on Iran nuclear energy program

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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt Following an agreement by Iran and six major world powers (P5+1) to hold expert-level meetings, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has stressed the importance of settling Tehran’s nuclear energy issue through political channels. Bildt urged diplomacy on Iran’s nuclear energy program in a Saturday telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar... 
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