H.E. Ms. Maria Sargren, the new Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, presented her credentials to His Majesty King Abdullah II during an official ceremony at Basman Palace on Tuesday, December 10, 2024.
Ambassador Sargren was accompanied by the Swedish Defence Attaché, Colonel Peter Öberg, and the Deputy Head of Mission, Mr. Johan Henriksson. The delegation also paid their respects at the Royal Cemetery.
Ambassador Sargren has over thirty years of experience in diplomacy. Before her tenure, she served as Ambassador of Sweden to Burkina Faso and Cambodia. Her diplomatic career has spanned from the Swedish Permanent Representations to the UN in New York and then Geneva, the Embassy to Zimbabwe, the Swedish Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and the European Commission as a seconded national expert.
The Embassy of Sweden is looking forward to further strengthening the bilateral relations between the two kingdoms and peoples.
