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Sweden’s foreign minister says he will step down

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2024.09.04 11:32

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom will step down next week, he wrote in a post on social media platform X on Wednesday.

“It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that I have today informed the prime minister that I will leave the post of foreign minister at the opening of parliament next week,” Billstrom wrote.

© Reuters. FIEL PHOTO: Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom attends the Annual Meeting of Heads of Finland's missions abroad and foreign policy leaders in Helsinki, Finland, August 28, 2024. Lehtikuva/Heikki Saukkomaa via REUTERS/File Photo

The 50-year-old said he would leave politics but had not decided what he would do next.

Billstrom of the conservative Moderate Party has served as foreign minister since October of 2022.

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