The Swedish mission to the United Nations says diplomatic immunity should stop a $1.7 million lawsuit brought by a Hispanic employee who claims he was injured when forced to assemble IKEA furniture by himself.

The mission’s lawyers argued before a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that the Swedes can’t be sued for discrimination because it is prohibited under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

Carlos Figueroa, 52, a chauffeur to Sweden’s UN ambassador, sued the nation’s mission in December, claiming he suffered serious back injuries when his bosses made him assemble a 300-pound wardrobe.

The mission’s lawyers admit that Figueroa’s personal-injury claims are not covered by diplomatic immunity, but they argue that “many of the claims are stale — far beyond the statute of limitations.”

Figueroa said that battling the Swedes in court was his “constitutional right as an American citizen.”