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Embassy of Sweden in Kuala Lumpur welcomes new Ambassador Joachim Bergström
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n 17 August, the Embassy of Sweden in Kuala Lumpur welcomed the new Ambassador-Designate of Sweden to Malaysia, Joachim Bergström. According to the Embassy, Ambassador-Designate Joachim Bergström was previously posted as Sweden’s Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and has also been posted in Tokyo, Riyadh, and Washington - and served as Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. While welcoming the new Ambassador-Designate to Malaysia, the Embassy also welcomed First Secretary Ms. Anita De Filippi Seiz.
Ms. Anita Seiz, who joins the Embassy from the Global Agenda department at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm, will temporarily stay at the Embassy until December 2021 as Head of Consular affairs and administration. She has also been posted in Cairo as First Secretary from 2012 – 2015. “A warm welcome to Malaysia, Ambassador Joachim Bergström and Ms. Anita Seiz!” the Embassy writes.
Chinese Embassy accuses Swedish freelance journalist and author of lies
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Photo from a previous demonstration made by the swedish journalist and author - Foto: Hannah Franzén / TT
he Swedish freelance journalist and author Kurdo Baksi is in an email from the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm accused of spreading lies and “contributing to crime”, Swedish media SVT Nyheter reports. The email was sent to Kurdo Baksi and several Swedish media in connection with a demonstration that Kurdo Baksi organized outside the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm on 17 August. The demonstration was held in support of the SwedishChinese publisher Gui Minhai who is imprisoned in China.
According to SVT Nyheter, the Chinese Embassy has on several previous occasions sent out emails accusing Kurdo Baksi of lying about Gui Minha, and in the recent email, the embassy writes, among other things, that Kurdo Baksi is spreading lies about the Gui Minhai case and that he is contributing to increased crime in Sweden.
September 2021 • ScandAsia 13
