STOCKHOLM, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish Foreign Ministry is planning to shut down four more of its embassies, Radio Sweden reported on Friday.

It quoted an unconfirmed report as saying that the embassies to be closed are the ones in Vientiane in Laos, Manila in The Philippines, Colombo in Sri Landka and Luanda in Angola.

The cause of the shutting down comes from financial consideration, a member of the Swedish parliament said. The Swedish Foreign Ministry is reshuffling its budget as new embassies are to be built in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan.

Only two days ago the Swedish government decided to phase out Sweden's embassies in Nicaragua and Botswana and the Swedish Consulates-General in Gdansk of Poland and Phuket of Thailand. The government would make further decisions on changes to Sweden's foreign representation, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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This will affect 17000 filipinos here in sweden...