PALESTINA har fått en officiell ambassad i Stockholm - den första i Västeuropa

Palestina passade på att öppna sin officiella ambassad i Stockholm när president Abbas gästade Sverige.
- Sverige erkände i slutet av förra året Palestina som en självständig stat. Sverige blev då det 135:e landet av världens 193, som erkänt Palestina...
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Abbas visits Stockholm after Swedes recognise Palestinian statehood

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Publicerades den 10 feb. 2015 euronews

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is in Sweden for talks with the country's new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.

It is his first visit to the Nordic nation since it "officially recognised Palestine":http://www.euronews.com/2014/10/04/sw... as a state. Sweden's ties with Israel have nosedived however as a result with Tel Aviv recalling its ambassador to Stockholm.
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2015-02-10 - Rysslands Röst
Palestinas nya ambassad invigdes på tisdagen den 10:e februari 2015 i Stockholm av president Mahmoud Abbas, som avslutning på presidentens Sverigebesök.

Abbas träffade även statsminister Stefan Löfven, utrikesminister Margot Wallsröm och Svenska kyrkans Antje Jackelén, under Sverigevistelsen.

- Den 30 oktober 2014 blev Sverige det första europeiska landet som erkänt Palestina som en självständig stat. 
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http://swedish.ruvr.ru/news/2015_02_10/Palestina-har-fatt-ambassad-i-Stockholm-1489/ 

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BREAKING: First Palestinian embassy in W. Europe opens in Sweden http://on.rt.com/apm1kg  

First Palestinian embassy in W. Europe opens in Sweden

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RT 2015-02-10
The first-ever Palestinian embassy in Western Europe has opened in Sweden on Tuesday evening, the Swedish prime minister’s press service said. President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Stockholm for the event.

"Your recognition...should push forward negotiations in the peace process," Abbas said.
Prime Minister Lofven has vowed aid to Palestine, but has also called on reforms.

"There are challenges: we must help one another to fight corruption, increase gender equality, improve respect for human rights, and of course continue the state building process," Lofven said.

Under the newly signed deal, Sweden’s financial help to Palestine will grow by 1.5 billion kronas (US$179.74 million) over the next five years.

Palestine has diplomatic missions in countries that either recognize or partially recognize it as an independent state.

Until Tuesday, Palestine had a General Delegation of Palestine in Sweden, based in Stockholm.

- On October 30, Sweden was the first Western EU member (*and 135th of the world's 193 nations) to officially recognize Palestinian statehood.

- Britain, France, Spain and Portugal followed suit.

READ MORE: French parliament votes to recognize Palestinian state

The plan to recognize Palestine was criticized by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said that Prime Minister Lofven “must understand that neither declaration nor move by an external player will replace direct talks between the sides that will be part of a comprehensive accord between Israel and the entire Arab world."

Following the move, relations between Sweden and Israel soured, and deteriorated even further early this year, when Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom called off a visit to Israel in January.

At the time, Israeli media cited Lieberman as saying that he did not want to meet Wallstrom, and that she wasn’t welcome on an official visit to Tel Aviv.

Late last year, the European Parliament also voted to recognize a Palestinian state in principle, with a total of 498 MEPs voting in favor.

On December 30, an official bid for Palestinian statehood was submitted to the UN Security Council. However, the UNSC failed to adopt the Arab coalition’s bid for the creation of a Palestinian state.

READ MORE: End of 'Israeli occupation'? Arabs support Palestinian draft UN resolution

- A total of 135 countries recognize Palestine – including several Eastern European nations, which did so before joining the EU.

The Palestinian ambassador to Russia has praised Sweden for taking a “huge step” towards Palestine’s broader recognition in Europe.

“This is very important to us and we hope this trend to recognize Palestine as a state continues in Europe and that other countries within the EU will also recognize us. Sweden made a huge step in that direction," Fayed Mustafa told Sputnik.

http://rt.com/news/231107-palestine-first-embassy-sweden/ 
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PALESTINA har fått en officiell ambassad i Stockholm - den första i Västeuropa 

   

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