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Daily Press Briefing - 2 - 8 August 1997 Turning to the Secretary-General's upcoming visit to Sweden and Finland, Mr. Eckhard said the Secretary-General would leave for Stockholm tomorrow, Saturday, 9 August. On Sunday, 10 August, he would meet with the Swedish Prime Minister, Goran Persson. On Monday, 11 August, he would meet with former Prime Minister of Sweden and former High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Carl Bildt, as well as with Foreign Minister Lena Hjelm-Wallen and the Minister for International Development and Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy, Pierre Schori. The Secretary-General would hold a press conference before leaving for the city of Uppsala, where he would, among other things, lay a wreath at the tomb of former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. He would . also attend a seminar on "New Challenges for the United Nations" at the University of Uppsala, chaired by the Dag Hammarskjold Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Peter Wallensteen. The Secretary-General would begin on Tuesday with a breakfast meeting with the Speaker of Parliament, Birgitta Dahl, the Spokesman said. He would then visit the Swedish Armed Forces International Command with Sweden's Minister of Defence, Bjorn von Sydow, and have lunch with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia before leaving for Helsinki, Finland. In Finland, the Secretary-General would meet, on Wednesday, 13 August, with President Martti Ahtisaari, Foreign Minister Tarja Halonen, the Minister of Defence Anneli Taina, and the Chief of the Finish Defence Forces, General Gustav Hagglund, as well as with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Elisabeth Rehn. He would then deliver a lecture at the Paasikivi Society. On Thursday, 14 August, the Secretary-General would round up his visit with meetings with Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, and with the Minister for Development Cooperation, Pekka Haavisto, the Spokesman said. He would then go to the World Institute for Development Economic Research and the House of Parliament, where he would meet the members of its Foreign Affairs Committee. Since Mr. Eckhard would be travelling with the Secretary-General, the press briefings for the next few weeks would be conducted in his absence by Acting Deputy-Spokesman Juan-Carlos Brandt, who will also be in charge of the Office of the Spokesman in Mr. Eckhard's absence. Mr. Eckhard then informed the correspondents that the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to Somalia, Ismat Kittani, would be leaving Geneva for Rome on Wednesday, 13 August. He would then go to the following cities: Cairo, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Sana'a and Djibouti. In Somalia, he would go to Hargeisa, Bossaso and Mogadishu. Further details would be made available as the trip progressed. (more).

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