Statement of the Secretary-General on the death of Anna Lindh, Foreign Minister 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.