SVENSKA DAGBLADET ? "7^ s l_^JijLjLJre V f? H \1 Li? i'V- ,i] ^ uj(iiul Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan United Nations New York, NY 10017 U.S.A. Stockholm, September 3,1997 ITfili SBM 6 1997 **«« Mr. Secretary General, It was a great pleasure and privilege to have the opportunity to meet you and your wife at the dinner hosted by_Clarissa and Peder jBonde. I sure hope you and Nane had some wonderful and relaxing days together for your holiday and that you were able to get well deserved rest and time for one another. -7 With reference to our conversation at^the party^and my letter to Mr. Jqb^^zajof_Apjil 3rd I just want to reconfirm uHaUhe^Sverrs^LPagbkdetETOcjitive^Club is: open. IQ yon whenever __ le. The Swedish senior business community would warmly welcome"you and would be eager to hear possibilities of cooperation between the United Nations and the corporate world. Next week the President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari will address the Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club and then on September 18 it is the Prime Minister of Spain Jos6 Maria Aznar and on November 28 Shimon Peres from Israel. We very much hope to see you in 1998! I remain, Yours sincerely, L Anna C. Belfrage President Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club S-1O5 17 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN BESOKSADRESS GJORWELLSGATAN 28 STOCKHOLM TPIPFOM +Aft 8 17 =;<> OO. TELEFAX +46 8 n SO 69 «Tsmm~. Undersecretary General IqbalRiza ^'H \\w' Y^*" '^P Chef de Cabinet ; ^J Secretary Generals Office United Nations New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. /-— ^ Stockholtfi, April 3, 1997 Dear Mr. Undersecretary General, With reference to the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Jan Eliasson we understand that the Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan has been invited to all the Nordic countries. If the Secretary General will visit Sweden I would, as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Svenska Dagbladet, like to invite the Secretary General to address the members of the Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club and their guests. Svenska Dagbladet is, as you may know, a nationwide morning paper with a circulation of over 200,000 copies. Its main coverage is the Stockholm area. The Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club started in 1980 and is probably the most important forum for top ranking business executives and government officials in Sweden. Its 600 members are invited five times a year to meetings with prominent lecturers from all over the world. For example, in recent years the Executive Club was addressed by such eminent personalities as Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush, Helmut Schmidt, Bill Gates, Hans Tietmeyer, Lech Walesa, Benazir Bhutto among others (enclosed you will please find a complete list). On April 16th the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson will address the Executive Club and on September 30th the President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari have accepted to speak. The meetings of the Executive Club are normally closed to the media but in this particular case, we leave it to the Secretary General to decide if he would like a select group of journalists, TV, radio and print media to be present. We very much look forward to hear from you. I remain, Yours sincerely, Lennart Hagelin Chairman SVENSKA DAGBLADET cc State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Jan Eliasson S-1O5 I/ STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN BESOKSADRESS GJORWELLSGATAN 28 STOCKHOLM TETBTmw ±A(\ ft 11 crv rm TCTPPAY J-/1 f, 9. 11 en f,n 1" SVENSKA DAGBLADET y*1 The Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club provides meetings for people with influence The Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club forms the link between those who influence events in our country and the people who, in some way, influence world events. The Executive Club meets at least four times a year. The Club was founded in December 1980, and below the personalities who have visited us over the years: Jacques Delors Former President of the European Commission (1997) Mary Robinson President of Ireland (1997) Scott McNealy Chairman, CEO and President of Sun Microsystems (1997) Richard Holbrooke Vice Chairman of CS First Boston Corp. (1996) Pehr G Gyllenhammar Senior Advisor Lazard Freres & Co. (1996) Benazir Bhutto Prime Minister of Pakistan (1996) Lech Walesa Former President of Poland, Founder of Solidarity, Nobel Peace Prize (1996) Percy Barnevik President and CEO of ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd, Switzerland (1996) Ingvar Carlsson Prime Minister of Sweden (1995) Ferdinand Piech CEO of Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda (1995) Sir James Goldsmith Businessman and EU parliamentarian (1995) Mstislav Rostropovitj Conductor and cellist (1995) Hans Tietmeyer President of Deutsche Bundesbank, Chairman G10 cen. bank gov. (1995) William H. (Bill) Gates Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation (1995) Esko Aho Prime Minister of Finland (1995) Anita Gradin Swedish European Union Commissioner (1994) Lee A. lacocca Chairman of the Board of Directors of Chrysler Corporation (1994) Peter Wallenberg First Vice Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (1994) Carlo De Benedetti Chairman and CEO of Olivetti (1994) Kenneth Clarke Chancellor of the Exchequer, Great Britain (1994) Kenneth Feld CEO of Irwin & Feld Production lac. (1994) Helmut Schmidt Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany (1993) Carlos Salinas de Gortari President of Mexico (1993) George Bush Former President of the USA (1993) Michail Gorbachov President of the former USSR (1993) Jacques Attali President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Dev. (1993) Margaret Thatcher Former Prime Minister of Great Britain (1993) Edzard Reuter Chairman of Daimler-Benz AG (1992) Colin Marshall Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of British Airways (1992) Lord Carrington Chairman of Christies International (1992) Carl Bildt Prime Minister of Sweden (1992) Rand V. Araskog Chairman and CEO of the ITT Corporation (1992) Milton Friedman Professor and Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, USA (1991) Otto von Habsburg Member of the European Parliament, Germany (1991) William H. Webster Former Director of the CIA and FBI, USA (1991) Raymond H. Levy Chairman and CEO of Renault (1991) Karl-Johannes von Schwarzenberg Chancellor of Czechoslovakia (1991) Isamu Yamashita Chairman of the East Japan Railway Co., Japan (1990) Dalai Lama Political and Spiritual Leader of Tibet (1990) Uffe Ellemann-Jensen Foreign Minister of Denmark (19S>0) Kalevi Sorsa Speaker of the Finnish Parliament (1990) Bengt Westerberg Leader, M P, Sweden (1989) Lydia Dunn Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (1989) Rein Otsason Minister of the Planning Com. and Vice Prime Minister of Estonia (1989) Rosabeth Moss Kanter Prof. Harvard Bus. School, Editor; Harvard Business Review (1989) EXECUTIVI-1 SVENSKA DAGBLADET,f—E CLU* B Ted Turner Chairman of the Board and President of CNN (1988) Jacques Seguela Advertising Consultant and Managing Director of RSC&G (1988) Abel G. Aganbegjan Academician and Economic Adviser to Michail Gorbachev,(1988) Jordi Pujol President of Catalonia, Spain (1987) Scott Carpenter Astronaut and Aquanaut, USA (1987) Hans L. Merkle Chairman of the Board of Robert Bosch GmbH (1987) Al Tortorella Vice President of Burson/Marsteller (1987) Poul Schliiter Prime Minister of Denmark (1986) Abba Eban Former Ambassador and Foreign Minister of Israel (1986) Mark H. McCormack President of the International Management Group (1986) Helmut Sonnenfeldt Researcher at the Brookings Institution, USA (1985) Walter Mondale Former Vice-President of the USA (1985) SAPO National Swedish Police, Security Department (1985) Alan Bond Chairman of the Board of the Bond Group (1985) Joseph Luns Former Secretary General of NATO (1985) Martin Feldstein Former Chief Economic Adviser to President Reagan, USA (1984) Kjell-Olof Feldt Minister of Finance, Sweden (1984) Leland S. Prussia Chairman of the Board of Bank of America (1984) Dee W. Hock President of VISA International (1984) Pehr G GyHenhammar Chairman of the Board and CEO of Volvo (1984) Leo Th. Heessels Member of the Board of Philips (1983) Willy Brandt Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany (1983) Anthony Sampson British journalist and writer (1983) Alexander Haig Former Secretary of State of the USA (1983) Olof Palme Prime Minister of Sweden (1982) Raymond Barre Former Prime Minister of France (1982) Georgy Arbatov Member of the Supreme Council of the USSR (1982) Jimmy Carter Former President of the USA (1982) Marc Nan NGuema Secretary General of OPEC (1982) Edward du Cann Former Trade Minister of Great Britain (1981) Gerald Ford Former President of the USA (1981) Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State of the USA (1981) Naoto Sasaki Professor of Management Studies, Japan (1981) James Schlesinger Former Secretary of Energy and Defence of the USA (1980) T* SVENSKA DACBLADET/—* LXECUTIVEvJJI** \/T*^"*I IHPI\ /r* f iiJi star En premiarminister? En fore detta pre- A Prime Minister? An ex-President? The sident? En riksbankschef? Nagon av Governor of a Central Bank? 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