Budget and objectives: Ministry for Foreign Affairs
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) is responsible for three expenditure areas in the central government budget.
- International cooperation - expenditure area 5
- International development cooperation, including reform cooperation in eastern Europe - expenditure
- Foreign trade and promotion of trade and investment - expenditure area 24
The 2009 Budget |
SEK 000s |
|---|---|
International cooperation |
1 958 437 |
International development cooperation |
25 741 335 |
Reform cooperation in eastern Europe |
1 278 110 |
Foreign trade and promotion of trade and investment 448 815 |
418 842 |
Total |
29 396 724 |
The objective of international cooperation is to secure Sweden's interests in its relations with other countries.
The objective of international development cooperation is to help create conditions that will enable poor people to improve their lives.
The objectives of foreign trade and promotion of trade and investment are:
- the highest possible level of free trade
- an efficient internal market and an open trade policy in the EU
- a strengthened multilateral trade system in the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- increasing trade between Sweden and the world
- increased foreign investment in Sweden.
