“Returning from Palestine. Action is needed to save the two state solution. Settlements and demolitions thwart conditions and hope for peace,” said controversial Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom in a tweet after her visit in Ramallah where she met with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.

"Sweden's policy was aimed at creating a future in which Israel and Palestine can live side by side. It is deeply worrying that Palestinians are beginning to lose hope in the future after 50 years of occupation,” she said in a press conference after the meeting.

The minister said Sweden will seek to advance a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements when it assumes the council presidency in January,.

“We discussed our (upcoming) presidency,” Wallstrom told the Swedish press. “We hope that it will be possible for the Security Council to adopt a resolution on the settlements.”

Though Wallstrom requested to meet with Israeli officials during her visit, ell, her efforts were rejected — ostensibly due to schedule conflicts, though Israeli officials have unofficially said the Swedish diplomat is unwelcome due to her controversial statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“I asked to visit Israel. It is important to also have dialogue with those who do not share the same opinion,” Wallstrom said. “Unfortunately it was not possible.”

But the Israeli officials had refused to meet Wallstrom during her visit to Israel due to her repeated anti-Israel statements in the past.

In October 2014, Sweden became the first EU country to recognize a Palestinian state after she became Foreign Minister.

In the wake of last November’s terror attacks in Paris, she identified the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of the factors explaining why “there are so many people who have become radicalized” — comments Israel called “appallingly impudent.”

In December 2015, she called on Israel to halt what she called “extrajudicial executions” in response to attacks by knife-wielding Palestinians, following up with a demand for “thorough” investigations into the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army.

This isn't the first time Wallström receives a cold shoulder from the Israeli government. She cancelled an official visit in January 2015 after Israeli officials refused to meet with her then as well.

The Swedish government is considered the most hostile to Israel among the European governments. Some in the Israeli foreign ministry suggested in the past to close the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm since it was a "lost cause."

Israel’s daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that during her visit to Ramallah, Abbas decorated the Swedish minister with an award he calls the Grand Star of the Order of Jerusalem.