President of the Republic Belarus Alexander Lukashenko appointed Mironchik Dimitri the ambassador of the country to Sweden, the press service of the head of state reports.
Thus, the republic restored the diplomatic mission to Sweden to the level which was before diplomatic scandal with a so-called plush landing.
in the Summer of 2012 between Belarus and Sweden there was a scandal after the light civil airplane piloted by citizens Sweden, crossed from outside Lithuania air space Belarus and dumped to Minsk and Ivenets (Minsk Region) teddy bears with appeals to freedom of the press in the country.
In August, 2012 the ex-ambassador Sweden in Minsk Eriksson Stephane was compelled to leave Minsk because of formal not extension of accreditation. Ministry foreign affairs of Kingdom of Sweden declared that the Belarusian party turned out it, and refused to accept the new Belarusian ambassador, and also suggested two senior Belarusian diplomats to leave Sweden. Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Belarus in turn withdrew 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. In September, 2017 Yukhannesson Christina the new ambassador.
In turn, in December, 2016 the representative Belarus Poplavsky Aleksey started performance of duties of the Charge d'Affaires ad interim in affairs of the republic to Sweden, and in November, 2017 in Stockholm the embassy Belarus was open.
Mironchik Dimitri since February, 2014 and so far held a post of the head of department of information and digital diplomacy – the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.