Press Release (2003) 099 11 Sep. 2003

NATO Secretary General pays tribute to Anna Lindh While on an official visit to Denmark today the Secretary General of NATO, Lord Robertson was asked at a press conference to comment on the tragic death of Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. He told journalists, "I was a friend and an admirer of a lovely person, and also a highly accomplished and successful and professional politician. All our thoughts must be with her husband and her beloved sons." He added, "It’s an appalling act of violence and a huge waste of talent and life and I express my sympathy with the people of Sweden." "The world, on September 11th again with a horrible irony, has lost a very substantial contributor to a better and safer world." News and information are posted regularly on the NATO Web Site. These include audio files, transcriptions and photographs for publication, which are posted as quickly as possible after events of interest to the media. Click on “What’s New?”

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