Statement of Minister Svoboda on the Death of Swedish Minister Anna Lindh
11.09.2003 / 15:23 | Aktualizováno: 30.07.2009 / 16:13
(11/9/2003)
I was deeply grieved to learn of the death of Swedish Minister Anna Lindh. We were friends and she was my closest colleague among the European Ministers of Foreign Affairs. I liked her for her openness, her good sense of humour and sincerity. I am really greatly depressed by the loss of her life and my thoughts are with her family and her two children. We had arranged a meeting for last Monday but agreed that with a view to the culminating campaign for Sweden to join the Monetary Union, we will meet next time and that "there will certainly be a good opportunity". Much to my regret we were both wrong.
The loss of Anna
Lindh will be mourned also in our country. As a Minister of Foreign
Affairs, she was always committed to the enlargement of the
European Union and furthering the interests of small and
medium-sized countries. She had a warm relation to the Czech
Republic and loved Prague, and even spent in our country her
honeymoon.
Cyril Svoboda, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign
Affairs