The Stockholm Conference on Lebanon's Early Recovery

On 31 August and 1 September 2006, Sweden hosted two conferences at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, the Stockholm Conferences on Lebanon's Early Recovery and the Humanitarian Situation in the Palestinian Territories.

The Lebanon conference was an answer to the call in UN Security Council Resolution 1701 for immediate steps to extend financial and humanitarian assistance to the Lebanese people. The Government of Sweden arranged the conference in close collaboration with the Government of Lebanon and with support from the United Nations. The World Bank and the European Commission had also been consulted in the preparations of the conference.

Sweden's former Minister for Foreign Affairs Jan Eliasson and former Minister for International Development Cooperation Carin Jämtin hosted the conference. The United Nations was closely involved in the preparations.