On the occasion of Ivory Coast's independence on 7 August 1960, Sweden's acting foreign minister, Ragnar Edenman, sent a congratulatory telegram to the new nation's president and head of government, Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

[4] In December 1962, the so-called Ministry for Foreign Affairs (UD) investigation proposed that a new diplomatic mission be opened in West Africa, either in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, or Accra, Ghana.

[5] In a proposal to Parliament in March 1963, it was suggested that an embassy be opened in Abidjan, with its jurisdiction also covering the republics of Mali, Niger, Togo, and Upper Volta.

[6] In September, Karl Henrik Andersson was appointed as Sweden's first resident ambassador in Abidjan, where the new Swedish embassy was established later that year.

[9] On 15 November 2004, in the aftermath of the French–Ivorian clashes during the Ivorian Civil War, the Swedish embassy in Abidjan was closed temporarily, and the ambassador returned to Stockholm.