GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SHOCKED, SADDENED
AT DEATH OF SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER
Following is a statement by the President of the fifty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, Jan Kavan (Czech Republic):
I am deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Anna Lindh, Foreign Minister of Sweden.� Anna was a good friend and colleague with whom I had worked closely as Czech Foreign Minister and as President of the UN General Assembly. �I remember her as a warm and lovely human being, an excellent diplomat, a great European, a passionate social democrat and a wonderful woman with whom I shared a vision of a socially just and peaceful world based on solidarity and tolerance.� I am appalled by this senseless and brutal death and hope that the perpetrator will be speedily brought to justice.� My thoughts are with her family, friends and the people of Sweden who so much cherish their open society.
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