The talks have been personally presided over by Carl Bildt, theSwedishforeignminister, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency and who served as the first high representative in Bosnia.
Last week Israeli ForeignMinister Avigdor Lieberman compared theSwedishForeign Ministry's hands-off position to the country's neutrality during World War II.
Foreign holidays can be politically damaging, too: Fredrik Reinfeldt, theSwedish prime minister, has been criticised for choosing a trip to Turkey over a memorial service for the victims of the Norway killings.