The Swedish government decided on 9 January 1992, to enter into an agreement with Ukraine to establish diplomatic relations.It was signed in Kyiv by Sweden's Foreign Minister, Margaretha af Ugglas, and Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Anatoliy Zlenko.[1] The Swedish embassy in Kyiv was opened in 1992 with its location at Hotel National on vul.Since 2000 there is also a Swedish honorary consulate in Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine.Sweden also had several consuls and vice-consuls in the Ukrainian part of the Russian Empire.