Tag: Billström
Billström on Iran: “Takes focus from Gaza”
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Foreign Minister Tobias Billström calls on all parties to avoid further escalation of the situation. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT Last night Iran was attacked by Israeli…
Billström (M): The government opposes an offensive in Rafah
– If it is the case that withdrawal heralds a ground offensive in Rafah, it is very serious and something the Swedish government absolutely opposes, he says. Billström also says…
Billström: Russian confrontation needs to be met
Updated 09.19 | Published 09.10 share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Foreign Minister Tobias Billström reads the new foreign declaration in the Riksdag. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT The government states in its…
Here Billström is pressed in SVT: “Has Israel crossed the line?”
This week there have been new alarms about the suffering in Gaza. According to the United Nations children’s fund Unicef, one in ten children is malnourished and the Ministry of…
Billström: “I expect the Hungarian parliament to be called in as soon as possible”
Billström welcomes tonight’s announcement from Turkey and calls it “gratifying”. He points out that Sweden has fulfilled its part of the agreements drawn up at various NATO summits. At the…
Death sentence Djalali’s wife criticizes Billström
unsaveSave share-arrowShare expand-left full screen Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M) has not heard from the wife of death row convict Ahmadreza Djalali since she contacted the Foreign Ministry in October.…
Billström: Important to avoid military escalation
unsaveSave share-arrowShare expand-left full screen Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M). Archive image. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT Sweden views developments in the Red Sea very seriously, according to Foreign Minister Tobias Billström…
The Turkish Foreign Affairs Committee supports Sweden’s NATO membership – “We are looking forward to it,” says Swedish Foreign Minister Billström | Foreign countries
The issue is now going to the vote of the Turkish parliament. The voting date has not yet been decided. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Parliament has today,…
Billström (M): Without the support, Ukraine would not have existed as a state
During the years of war that have now passed in Ukraine, the United States and the EU have emerged as the country’s main allies in the fight against the Russian…
Billström: Sure “in a couple of weeks”
On Tuesday, Billström had a separate meeting with his Turkish colleague Hakan Fidan in connection with the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels. – There he said that he hopes…