SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY SADDENED’ AT DEATH OF ANNA LINDH, FOREIGN MINISTER OF SWEDEN

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY SADDENED’ AT DEATH OF ANNA LINDH,

FOREIGN MINISTER OF SWEDEN

Following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of Anna Lindh:

I was shocked and deeply saddened this morning to learn of the death of Anna Lindh, the minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.

Sweden has lost a successful and great Foreign Minister, a great Swede and a great European.  I have also lost a close friend and so has the United Nations.

In these painful times, I send my heartfelt condolences to her family, her husband and their two children, as well as to the people and Government of Sweden.

I share in their grief and pain at this tragic loss.

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