Margot Wallstrom

North Korea's foreign minister arrived in Sweden for talks on Thursday, with a two-day visit, according to FOCUS News Agency.
Minister Ri Yong-ho landed at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm before boarding a diplomatic car without giving any statements to the media.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has revealed that she has been subjected to sexual harassment "at the highest political level." Stockholm's first diplomat made the statement by joining the #MeToo social networking campaign, where women share their sexual harassment experience.

BELGRADE - Serbia is achieving good economic results and demonstrating the necessary stability, Swedish and Finnish FMs Margot Wallstrom and Timo Soini said at a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday, expressing the expectation there would be more Swedish and Finnish investments in Serbia.

Serbia's First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Tuesday in Belgrade received the foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland.

The annual Athens Democracy Forum organized by the New York Times and Kathimerini gets under way in the Greek capital on Wednesday.

Titled "Solutions for a Changing World," the forum, which runs through Sunday, will address whether the western spirit of openness is being replaced by walls, among other topics.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said she hoped the US and North Korea would 'come to their senses' before their increasingly heated rhetoric leads the two nations into a nuclear war, The Local reported.

Sweden said on Aug. 8 that it was working to assist a Swedish-Turkish journalist detained in Spain after Ankara issued an international arrest warrant over alleged terrorism.

Hamza Yalçın was detained on Aug. 3 at Barcelona's El Prat airport and is being held while a court decides whether to extradite him or not, Spanish police told AFP.

Sweden's foreign ministry has confirmed that the second victim of the earthquake that struck the Greek island of Kos overnight was a 20-year-old man who lived in central Sweden.

His name was not revealed.

A conference on the failed July 15 coup that was to be organized by the Union of European Turkish Democrats in Sweden was canceled on Oct. 14, allegedly due to pressure by an alderman. 
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu had a phone conversation with Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström over the incident and conveyed his unease on Oct. 14.

Turkey has conveyed its uneasiness to Sweden over the opening of a Democratic Union Party office in Stockholm, as the latter has stated that the representation office has "no diplomatic status."