Sweden–Venezuela relations

Swedish–Venezuelan relations are the bilateral relations between Sweden and Venezuela.

Swedish-Venezuelan relations

Sweden	Venezuela

History

Sweden was among the 28 European Union countries that did not recognize the results of the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly elections.^[1] Sweden also disavowed the results of the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election, where Nicolás Maduro was declared as the winner.^[2]

In 2019, during the Venezuelan presidential crisis, Sweden recognized Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela and pledged to assist with the delivery of humanitarian aid that year.^[3][4] On January 31, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, announced the creation of a "contact group for Venezuela" initially composed of eight European and four Latin American countries, including Sweden, which would hold its first meeting in Uruguay on February 7 and work for 90 days on the possibility of facilitating a dialogue leading to elections in Venezuela.^[5]

Diplomatic missions

Sweden maintained a diplomatic mission in Caracas from the 1930s to 2000. Since then the Swedish ambassador to Venezuela is resident in Bogotá, Colombia. Sweden has honorary consulates in Caracas and Porlamar.^[6] Venezuela had an embassy in Stockholm until March 2018.^[7] The Venezuelan embassy in Sweden had been founded as a consulate in 1948, and became an embassy in 1961.^[8]

See also

• Foreign relations of Sweden
• Foreign relations of Venezuela
• Negotiations during the Venezuelan crisis