[1] Guinea-Bissau is accredited to Sweden from its embassy in Brussels and maintains an honorary consulate in Stockholm.

[5] The first documented contact between PAIGC and Sweden occurred in the early 1960s, as Amílcar Cabral requested to Swedish journalist Anders Ehnmark to launch an appeal to support the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau (after a solidarity campaign of Ehnmark's paper Expressen for Angolan refugees had gathered a large response from the Swedish public).

Around 1967 the international secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Pierre Schori, had visited Portugal.

[6] In January 1967 a group of parliamentarians from the Communist Party of Sweden (including Lars Werner) had presented a parliamentary motion requesting that Sweden would give assistance to the Mozambiquean liberation movement FRELIMO, but the motion was rejected by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.

[9] In November 1968 the Swedish government decided to support the UN General Assembly resolution 2395, calling for self-rule for the Portuguese colonies in Africa.

In May 1969 a decision was passed on Swedish support for the anti-colonial movements in the Portuguese colonies in Africa.

[11] The right wing Moderate Party was the sole parliamentary force which opposed Swedish assistance to the anti-colonial movements.

[5] A key factor behind the decision on behalf of the Swedish government to inititiate aid efforts to PAIGC was the fact that by the late 1960s PAIGC controlled a vast section of the territory of the country and that the movement sought foreign assistance for the build-up of social services, health care and education in these areas.

[12] Sweden was the most important donor of non-military material for PAIGC during the latter phase of the liberation war.