Press release
19 September 2008
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Carl Bildt to visit the United States
Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt is going to New York on 21-27 September and will attend the General Debate of the UN General Assembly.
Mr Bildt will take part in the opening of the General Debate of the UN General Assembly, a range of ministerial meetings on matters including peace and security in Africa, an EU-US meeting of foreign ministers and a meeting between the EU and Russia. Mr Bildt is also planning bilateral meetings with foreign ministers from Iran, Pakistan, Macedonia, Colombia, Jordan and other countries. In addition, he will meet several senior UN officials including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the head of the UN Department of Political Affairs. Lynn Pascoe, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Sir John Holmes and the head of UN Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy. The week also includes a reception hosted by US President George W. Bush.
Along with his Norwegian colleague Jonas Gahr Störe, Mr Bildt will also chair a symposium on freedom of expression at the International Peace Institute think tank. This will be held on 25 September at 8.15-10.00. Media are welcome - contact IPI for more information (www.ipacademy.org).
Press conference
Time: Thursday 25 September at 16.30 (local time)
Place: Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, 46th floor, New York (corner of 48th Street)
Pre-registration required, contact Mia Morales,
mia.morales@foreign.ministry.se
For questions related to media accreditation to the UN, see www.un.org/media/accreditation/ or contact Mia Morales.
Contact
Anna Charlotta Johansson(journalists only) Press Secretary to Carl Bildt
+46 8 405 54 73
+46 70 356 30 32
email to Anna Charlotta Johansson
