Dagens Nyheter (DN) reported<\/a> that Thyberg resigned after the publication had asked him about photos described as \u201csensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThese are old pictures from an account I previously had on the dating site Grindr. I should have informed [the government] about this but I didn\u2019t. I have therefore said I do not intend to take up the position as national security adviser,\u201d Thyberg told DN.<\/p>\n
Thyberg served as Sweden\u2019s ambassador to Afghanistan from 2017 to 2019, ambassador to Ukraine until 2023, and most recently headed the foreign ministry\u2019s unit for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.<\/p>\n
Sweden has had only two national security advisers to date, both of whom have left the post under unusual circumstances. Thyberg\u2019s predecessor Henrik Landerholm stepped down<\/a> in January after a prosecutor launched an investigation into his mishandling of highly classified documents at a conference center in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is, of course, serious. He has therefore decided himself not to take the position. A new recruitment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2881,5293,12,811,812,41981,657,41982,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-88009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-security","12":"tag-sweden","13":"tag-swedish-politics","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-ulf-kristersson","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114479247117995704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}