the Deputy minister of foreign affairs Belarus Oleg Ivanovich Kravchenko held on Wednesday a meeting with the plenipotentiary ambassador Sweden to Belarus Yukhannesson Christina on the occasion of the beginning of her diplomatic mission in the country, reported Sputnik in the press service Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
V Belarus Yukhannesson Christina Yuokhannesson replaced Martin Oberg which worked as the Charge d'Affaires ad interim (since July, 2013), and then — the ambassador (since April, 2015). He became the first head of a diplomatic mission accredited to Belarus after scandal between Minsk and Stockholm in 2012. Before appointment to Minsk Yukhannesson Christina worked in representation Sweden at EU in Brussels. And before — in consulate general Sweden in Saint Petersburg and in the Swedish Embassy in Moscow.
" Yukhannesson Christina handed over to Oleg Ivanovich Kravchenko copies of the credentials. During a meeting of the party discussed a state and the perspective directions of the Belarusian-Swedish cooperation" — informed in MID.<"26>"
the Ambassador Sweden Eriksson Stephane it was compelled to leave Belarus in 2012 because of not extension to it ambassadorial accreditation. Ministry foreign affairs of Kingdom of Sweden refused to accept the new Belarusian ambassador, and also suggested two Belarusian diplomats to leave the country. Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Belarus withdrew the embassy from Stockholm and offered Sweden to undertake similar actions concerning the diplomatic mission.
From August, 2012 to July, 2013 Sweden had in Minsk no representative with the diplomatic status, then the diplomatic mission was headed by the Charge d'Affaires ad interim Martin Oberg whom at the end of April 2015 Government of Sweden appointed the ambassador to Belarus.
the Conflict between Belarus and Sweden provoked so-called "a plush landing" when in July, 2012 the light civil airplane piloted by citizens Sweden, crossed from outside Lithuania air space of the republic and scattered over Minsk Region teddy bears with appeals to freedom of the press in the country.