The number of Swedes stranded in the Middle East is now in the hundreds rather than thousands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) says - it is now withdrawing its emergency teams from Abu Dhabi and Doha. There are full planes from Dubai to Stockholm every day now, says UD head Svante Liljegren.
Sweden"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs understands the frustration of many stranded Swedes - but the situation needs to be put into perspective. I think it is good to remember that there is enormous human suffering in Iran and throughout the region," Svante Liljegren, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Aftonbladet.
SwedenA few countries have begun evacuating stranded citizens in the Middle East, but the Swedish Foreign Ministry says there is no possibility of evacuating Swedes. The same message comes from the prime minister. "In general, I have no new information now," Ulf Kristersson said.
SwedenThousands of Swedes are stranded at the air hubs in Dubai and Doha. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not know how they will get home. "We cannot do much," says Svante Liljegren, head of the consular unit.
SwedenSeveral thousand Swedish citizens are believed to be stranded in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates due to the fighting in the region, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Sveriges Radio Ekot.
WorldThe Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been taken to a Turkish prison after being arrested. This is what Dagens ETC's editor-in-chief Andreas Gustavsson tells TV4. Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party) announces that they have had contact with Turkey's ambassador in Sweden in the matter.
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