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Guinea-Bissau–Sweden relations is the bilateral foreign relations between the two countries Guinea-Bissau and Sweden. The ambassador of Sweden to Senegal is accredited to Guinea-Bissau.〔(Guinea-Bissau )〕 Sweden has an honorary consulate in Bissau.〔(Sveriges honorärkonsulat Bissau )〕 Guinea-Bissau is represented in Sweden through its embassy in Brussels and a consul in Stockholm.〔(The Stockholm Diplomatic List )〕〔(Corps Consulaire en Suède )〕 ==Colonial period and liberation war== Contacts between Sweden and the area that later became the independent state of Guinea-Bissau were marginal until the late 1960s. Whilst trade relations between Sweden and Portugal increased rapidly after both countries had joined EFTA in 1960, there were few contacts between Sweden and the Portuguese possessions in Africa. The imports from 'Portuguese West Africa' (which in Swedish statistics included Portuguese Guinea, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola) represented merely 0.04% of Swedish imports (2.3 million Swedish kronor) in 1950. Exports to 'Portuguese West Africa' amounted to 0.03% (1.8 million kronor) of the total Swedish exports in the same year. By 1960 the Swedish imports from these areas remained at around 0.03% whilst Swedish exports had increased marginally (0.08% of all Swedish exports).〔 The first African liberation movement to have a comprehensive co-operative programme established with the Swedish government was the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 71.〕 The first documented contact between PAIGC and Sweden occurred in the early 1960s, as Amílcar Cabral requested to Swedish journalist Anders Ehnmark to launch an appeal to support the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau (after a solidarity campaign of Ehnmark's paper ''Expressen'' for Angolan refugees had gathered a large response from the Swedish public). Around 1967 the international secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Pierre Schori, had visited Portugal. After his return, he urged his party to support PAIGC. From the late 1960s, the two parties developed mutual relations.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. pp. 47–48.〕 In January 1967 a group of parliamentarians from the Communist Party of Sweden (including Lars Werner) had presented a parliamentary motion requesting that Sweden would give assistance to the Mozambiquean liberation movement FRELIMO, but the motion was rejected by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. A year later, the Communist Party issued a similar request (signed by C.-H. Hermansson), requesting that Sweden give assistance to the liberation movements of the Portuguese colonies in Africa, through CONCP (which included PAIGC). This motion was also rejected.〔 In the winter of 1968 Cabral visited Sweden (invited by the Social Democratic Party), the first of many visits. During this visit he also met with Hermansson.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 51.〕 At the time, PAIGC had a resident representative in Sweden, Onésimo Silveira. Silviera would serve in this function until November 1972.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. pp. 62–63.〕 In November 1968 the Swedish government decided to support the UN General Assembly resolution 2395, calling for self-rule for the Portuguese colonies in Africa.〔 Moreover, the Swedish ambassador to Liberia (Olof Ripa) visited Conakry and sought assurances from Sékou Touré that the Guinean government would not object to official Swedish assistance being channelled through Guinea-Conakry to the PAIGC-held areas.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 52.〕 However in 1969 not only the communist parliamentarians requested official Swedish support for the anti-colonial movements in the Portuguese possessions in Africa, but also their Social Democratic, the Centre Party and the People's Party colleagues. In May 1969 a decision was passed on Swedish support for the anti-colonial movements in the Portuguese colonies in Africa.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 42.〕 Sweden thus became the first Western country to give official support to these organizations. However, whilst the Swedish left wing and solidarity movements called for 'unconditional support' to the armed struggle of PAIGC, the official Swedish aid was limited to non-military activities.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 53.〕 The right wing Moderate Party was the sole parliamentary force which opposed Swedish assistance to the anti-colonial movements.〔 A key factor behind the decision on behalf of the Swedish government to inititiate aid efforts to PAIGC was the fact that by the late 1960s PAIGC controlled a vast section of the territory of the country and that the movement sought foreign assistance for the build-up of social services, health care and education in these areas.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 46.〕 Between mid-1969 and mid-1975 PAIGC received 45.2 million Swedish kronor in aid from the Swedish state, representing two-thirds of the Swedish assistance to African liberation movements during this period.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. pp. 43, 57.〕 Sweden was the most important donor of non-military material for PAIGC during the latter phase of the liberation war.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 58.〕 There existed an uncoordinated ''de facto'' division of labour between Sweden and the Soviet Union, whilst Sweden supplied PAIGC with non-military donations the Soviet provided the weaponry for the armed struggle.〔Sellström, Tor. ''(Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa )''. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. p. 64.〕 The Swedish position towards PAIGC enabled other Western countries to take similar positions. In 1972 Norway broke the NATO ranks (Portugal, against which PAIGC was waging armed struggle, was a NATO member) and initiated an official assistance programme for PAIGC.〔 Cabral himself had been heavily involved in the design and follow-up on the Swedish-Guinean cooperation projects. After the murder of Cabral in 1973 Olof Palme sent his condoleances to PAIGC and Cabral's widow, stating that Cabral had been 'one of the foremost leaders of the Third World'.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guinea-Bissau–Sweden relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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