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02.05.2013, 18:17

Today the Armenian government has approved the release of 168 million drams for the opening of the embassy in Sweden with headquarters in Stockholm.

Armenia to open embassy in Sweden

YEREVAN, May 2. /ARKA/. Today the Armenian government has approved the release of 168 million drams for the opening of the embassy in Sweden with headquarters in Stockholm.

A deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharian said during a government session that relations between Armenia and Sweden and the political dialogue at the highest level over the last seven-eight years have intensified as evidenced by the Armenian president's visit to Sweden and the visit to Armenia by Sweden’s foreign minister.

A relating government draft decision says parliament friendship groups are set up in both countries and besides, Sweden is the only Nordic state whose parliament recognized in 2010 the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey.

Sweden boasts of one of the most competitive economies in the world being the largest in the Nordic region. Sweden supports also actively the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group for finding a lasting peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Sweden is one of the initiating countries of the EU’s Eastern Partnership Program involving also Armenia along with other five former Soviet republics. Sweden has also the largest Armenian community in Scandinavian countries.

Armenia is the only country of the South Caucasus, which has no resident embassy in Stockholm. The opening of the embassy is supposed to prompt Sweden to open its embassy in Yerevan. -0-

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