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Annika Söder
Karin Annika Bjurner Söder (born 1955) is a Swedish diplomat and politician representing the Swedish Social Democratic Party. From 2014 to 2019, she served as Sweden's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In February 2020, she was appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to collaborate with a UN group on peace building and in January 2021, she was engaged by OSCE chair Ann Linde as her special representative for the South Caucasus. On 18 January 2023, with ministerial backing from Germany and Sweden, she became a member of the International Commission on Inclusive Peace. Early life Born on 22 June 1955, Karin Annika Bjurner Söder is the daughter of the politician and Karin Söder, Minister for Foreign Affairs 1976–1978. She lives in Stockholm and is married to the diplomat . From 1974 to 1976, she attended the Stockholm School of Journalism, specializing in French language and law at the university level. Career From 1976 to 1982, Söder worked as a journalist f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Söder - June 2016 (cropped)
Annika is a feminine given name. It is the Swedish pet form of Anna, similar to Anneke in the Netherlands. It is also common in Germany, Finland and Estonia, gaining popularity after 1969 from the character of that name in the ''Pippi Longstocking'' TV series and film. * Annika Beck (born 1994), German tennis player * Annika Bryn (born 1945), Swedish author and freelance journalist * Annika Drazek (born 1995), German bobsledder and track and field athlete * Annika Fredén (born 1978), Swedish handball player * Annika Idström (1947-2011), Finnish writer * Annika Kipp (born 1979), German television presenter * Annika Kjærgaard (born 1971), Swedish singer * Annika Langvad (born 1984), Danish cross mountain biker * Annika Lemström (born 1964), Finnish sailor * Annika Norlin (born 1977), Swedish pop artist and journalist * Annika Mombauer (born 1967), British academic and historian * Annika Reeder (born 1979), British artistic gymnast * Annika Saarikko (born 1983), Finni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party ( sv, Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ; S/SAP), usually referred to as The Social Democrats ( sv, link=no, Socialdemokraterna ), is a social-democratic political party in Sweden. Founded in 1889, the SAP is the country's oldest and currently largest party. From the mid-1930s to the 1980s, the Social Democratic Party won more than 40% of the vote. From 1932 to 1976, the SAP was continuously in government. Most recently, the party was heading the government from 2014 to 2022. It participates in elections as "The Workers' Party – The Social Democrats" ( sv, link=no, Arbetarepartiet – Socialdemokraterna ). History Founded in 1889 as a member of the Second International, a split occurred in 1917 when the left socialists split from the Social Democrats to form the Swedish Social Democratic Left Party (later the Communist Party of Sweden and now the Left Party). The symbol of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Secretary For Foreign Affairs (Sweden)
The State Secretary for Foreign Affairs ( sv, Kabinettssekreterare) is the highest position below the rank of cabinet minister at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. , Jan Knutsson is State Secretary. 2023-03-16 The title can alternatively be translated as ''Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs'' or ''Secretary General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.'' For historical reasons, this position has a different title in Swedish than the other State Secretary, State Secretaries of the Swedish government; the other posts are termed ''statssekreterare''. Before 1945, in a situation where the political head of the ministry often changed rapidly, the Secretary General re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Guterres
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres ( , ; born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat. Since 2017, he has served as secretary-general of the United Nations, the ninth person to hold this title. A member of the Portuguese Socialist Party, Guterres served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. Guterres served as secretary-general of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He was elected prime minister in 1995 and resigned in 2002, after his party was defeated in the 2001 Portuguese local elections. After six years governing without an absolute majority and with a poor economy, the Socialist Party did worse than expected because of losses in Lisbon and Porto, where polls indicated they had a solid lead. Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues assumed the Socialist Party leadership, but the general election was lost to the Social Democratic Party, led by José Manuel Barroso. Despite this defeat, polling of the Portuguese public in both 2012 and 2014 ranked Guterres the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Linde
Ann Christin Linde (born 4 December 1961) is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Magdalena Andersson from 2019 to 2022.Anna Ringstrom (9 September 2019)Swedish trade minister Linde shifting to foreign affairs: TV''Reuters''. Linde previously served as Minister of Foreign Trade and Minister for Nordic Cooperation. Before that, she was the Minister for European Union Affairs and Trade for the Löfven Cabinet from 25 May, 2016. Political career Throughout the 1990s, Linde worked in government offices, including as the Ministry Secretary of Civil Affairs and the political advisor of the EU and Trade Minister Mats Hellström of Foreign Affairs and of Defense Minister Björn von Sydow on Ministry of Defence. Linde worked as international secretary at the Social Democratic Party in Sweden from 2000 to 2013. From 2013 to 2014, she was the head of the International De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Caucasus
The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, which are sometimes collectively known as the Caucasian States. The total area of these countries measures about . The South Caucasus and the North Caucasus together comprise the larger Caucasus geographical region that divides Eurasia. Geography The South Caucasus spans the southern portion of the Caucasus Mountains and their lowlands, straddling the border between the continents of Europe and Asia, and extending southwards from the southern part of the Main Caucasian Range of southwestern Russia to the Turkish and Armenian borders, and from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea coast of Iran in the east. The area includes the southern part of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, the entire Lesser C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Söder
Karin Ann-Marie Söder (née Bergenfur; 30 November 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a Swedish Centre politician. She was the first woman in Sweden to be elected the leader of a major political party. She headed the Swedish Centre Party from 1985 to 1987. She was also one of the first female foreign ministers in the world. Biography Söder was born in Frykerud in Kil Municipality, Värmland. Having graduated from secondary school in Gothenburg, she studied in Falun, and worked as a teacher, first in Värmland and later in Täby, north of Stockholm, where she was a member of the local council from 1963 to 1971. She also sat on the Stockholm County Council from 1969 to 1973. She died in Täby in 2015. Political career Ascendancy In 1971, Söder was elected a Member of the Swedish Parliament, a position she held until 1991. The same year she became a member of parliament, she also became the second vice leader of the Centre Party. When Sweden got a centre-right government under C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Foreign Affairs (Sweden)
The Minister for Foreign Affairs ( sv, utrikesminister) is the foreign minister of Sweden and the head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Tobias Billström of the Moderate Party. History The office was instituted in 1809 as a result of the constitutional Instrument of Government promulgated in the same year. Until 1876 the office was called Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs ( sv, statsminister för utrikes ärendena, commonly known as ''utrikesstatsminister''), similar to the office of Prime Minister for Justice ( sv, justitiestatsminister). The Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs initially served as head of the Cabinet of Foreign Mail Exchange at the Royal Office. Following the ministry reform in 1840, the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs became head of the newly instituted Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In 1876 the office proper of Prime Minister of Sweden was created and at the same time the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is decided by the Swedish Riksdag. As of 1 January 2019, the funds stem from standard taxation. No advertising is permitted. Its legal status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization. History The company – which was founded as AB Radiotjänst ("Radio Service Ltd") by a consortium of newspaper companies, the TT news agency, and radio manufacturing interests on 21 March 1924 – made its first broadcast on 1 January 1925: a relay of High Mass from St James's Church in Stockholm. It was officially renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957. Sveriges Radio was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden, both radio and television, and hosted the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. A reorganization in 1979 saw i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry For Foreign Affairs (Sweden)
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs ( sv, Utrikesdepartementet, UD) is responsible for Swedish foreign policy. History The ministry for Foreign Affairs was created in 1791 when King Gustav III set up ''Konungens kabinett för den utrikes brevväxlingen'' (The King's cabinet for Foreign Letters of Exchange ). In 1840 the organisation formally changed its name to Utrikesdepartementet.Duuring World 1( The Great War) the office opens a third party liason section for countries that do not have diplomatic relations.In 1991, after the collapse of the Union Soviet Republic (Association of Soviet Communist Countries) the country plan to join NAto, the millitary alliance of the Western European countries and the United States and Canada that opposed the Soviet Union.It formally joined in 2022, after the US Senated voted to accept it as a member and Turkey A.k.A(Turkiye, Ottoman Empire) pulled it objection. Government agencies The Ministry for Foreign Affairs are principal for the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, ( sv, Stiftelsen Dag Hammarskjölds Minnesfond) is a non-profit foundation based in Uppsala, Sweden, that aims to strengthen policy on international cooperation, development and peacebuilding through its various programs. History The foundation was created in 1962 as Sweden's national memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash on a mission to the Congo. Mission Its mission statement states: "By making possible the meeting of minds, experiences and perspectives through the organising of seminars and dialogues, the Foundation plays a catalysing role in the identification of new issues and the formulation of new concepts, policy proposals, strategies and work plans towards solutions. The Foundation seeks to promote in innovative ways on the debates on development, security and democracy, thereby continuously embarking on new themes in close collaboration with a wide and const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the capital Stockholm it is also the seat of Uppsala Municipality. Since 1164, Uppsala has been the ecclesiology, ecclesiastical centre of Sweden, being the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden. Uppsala is home to Scandinavia's largest cathedral – Uppsala Cathedral, which was the frequent site of the coronation of the Swedish monarch until the late 19th century. Uppsala Castle, built by King Gustav I of Sweden, Gustav Vasa, served as one of the royal residences of the Swedish monarchs, and was expanded several times over its history, making Uppsala the secondary capital of Sweden during its Swedish Empire, greatest extent. Today it serves as the residence of the Gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
