New foreign minister for Sweden

Prime Minister Goeran Persson today appointed a new foreign minister to replace Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to death last month while shopping with a friend in a Stockholm department store.

New foreign minister for Sweden
Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 - 12:05

Prime Minister Goeran Persson today appointed a new foreign minister to replace Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to death last month while shopping with a friend in a Stockholm department store.

Persson announced the appointment of Laila Freivalds, a lawyer who previously had been justice minister for nine years, as Sweden’s new foreign minister.

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