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Mr. Secretary General,

It was a great pleasure and privilege to have the opportunity to meet you and your wife at thedinner hosted by_Clarissa and Peder jBonde. I sure hope you and Nane had some wonderfuland relaxing days together for your holiday and that you were able to get well deserved rest andtime for one another.

-7With reference to our conversation at^the party^and my letter to Mr. Jqb^^zajof_Apjil 3rdI 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 ofcooperation between the United Nations and the corporate world. Next week the President ofFinland Martti Ahtisaari will address the Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club and then onSeptember 18 it is the Prime Minister of Spain Jos6 Maria Aznar and on November 28Shimon Peres from Israel.

We very much hope to see you in 1998!

I remain,

Yours sincerely,

LAnna C. BelfragePresidentSvenska Dagbladet Executive Club

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Dear Mr. Undersecretary General,

With reference to the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Jan Eliasson weunderstand that the Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan has been invited to all the Nordiccountries. If the Secretary General will visit Sweden I would, as the Chairman of the Board ofDirectors of Svenska Dagbladet, like to invite the Secretary General to address the members ofthe Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club and their guests.

Svenska Dagbladet is, as you may know, a nationwide morning paper with a circulation ofover 200,000 copies. Its main coverage is the Stockholm area. The Svenska DagbladetExecutive Club started in 1980 and is probably the most important forum for top rankingbusiness executives and government officials in Sweden. Its 600 members are invited fivetimes a year to meetings with prominent lecturers from all over the world. For example, inrecent years the Executive Club was addressed by such eminent personalities as MargaretThatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush, Helmut Schmidt, Bill Gates, Hans Tietmeyer,Lech Walesa, Benazir Bhutto among others (enclosed you will please find a complete list). OnApril 16th the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson will address the Executive Club and onSeptember 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 HagelinChairmanSVENSKA DAGBLADET

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The Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club provides meetings for people with influence

The Svenska Dagbladet Executive Club forms the link between those who influence events inour country and the people who, in some way, influence world events. The Executive Club meetsat least four times a year.

The Club was founded in December 1980, and below the personalities who have visited us overthe years:

Jacques DelorsMary RobinsonScott McNealyRichard HolbrookePehr G GyllenhammarBenazir BhuttoLech WalesaPercy BarnevikIngvar CarlssonFerdinand PiechSir James GoldsmithMstislav RostropovitjHans TietmeyerWilliam H. (Bill) GatesEsko AhoAnita GradinLee A. lacoccaPeter WallenbergCarlo De BenedettiKenneth ClarkeKenneth FeldHelmut SchmidtCarlos Salinas de GortariGeorge BushMichail GorbachovJacques AttaliMargaret ThatcherEdzard ReuterColin MarshallLord CarringtonCarl BildtRand V. AraskogMilton FriedmanOtto von HabsburgWilliam H. WebsterRaymond H. LevyKarl-Johannes vonSchwarzenbergIsamu YamashitaDalai LamaUffe Ellemann-JensenKalevi SorsaBengt WesterbergLydia DunnRein OtsasonRosabeth Moss Kanter

Former President of the European Commission (1997)President of Ireland (1997)Chairman, CEO and President of Sun Microsystems (1997)Vice Chairman of CS First Boston Corp. (1996)Senior Advisor Lazard Freres & Co. (1996)Prime Minister of Pakistan (1996)Former President of Poland, Founder of Solidarity, Nobel Peace Prize (1996)President and CEO of ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd, Switzerland (1996)Prime Minister of Sweden (1995)CEO of Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda (1995)Businessman and EU parliamentarian (1995)Conductor and cellist (1995)President of Deutsche Bundesbank, Chairman G10 cen. bank gov. (1995)Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation (1995)Prime Minister of Finland (1995)Swedish European Union Commissioner (1994)Chairman of the Board of Directors of Chrysler Corporation (1994)First Vice Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (1994)Chairman and CEO of Olivetti (1994)Chancellor of the Exchequer, Great Britain (1994)CEO of Irwin & Feld Production lac. (1994)Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany (1993)President of Mexico (1993)Former President of the USA (1993)President of the former USSR (1993)President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Dev. (1993)Former Prime Minister of Great Britain (1993)Chairman of Daimler-Benz AG (1992)Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of British Airways (1992)Chairman of Christies International (1992)Prime Minister of Sweden (1992)Chairman and CEO of the ITT Corporation (1992)Professor and Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, USA (1991)Member of the European Parliament, Germany (1991)Former Director of the CIA and FBI, USA (1991)Chairman and CEO of Renault (1991)

Chancellor of Czechoslovakia (1991)Chairman of the East Japan Railway Co., Japan (1990)Political and Spiritual Leader of Tibet (1990)Foreign Minister of Denmark (19S>0)Speaker of the Finnish Parliament (1990)Leader, M P, Sweden (1989)Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (1989)Minister of the Planning Com. and Vice Prime Minister of Estonia (1989)Prof. Harvard Bus. School, Editor; Harvard Business Review (1989)

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Chairman of the Board and President of CNN (1988)Advertising Consultant and Managing Director of RSC&G (1988)Academician and Economic Adviser to Michail Gorbachev,(1988)President of Catalonia, Spain (1987)Astronaut and Aquanaut, USA (1987)Chairman of the Board of Robert Bosch GmbH (1987)Vice President of Burson/Marsteller (1987)Prime Minister of Denmark (1986)Former Ambassador and Foreign Minister of Israel (1986)President of the International Management Group (1986)Researcher at the Brookings Institution, USA (1985)Former Vice-President of the USA (1985)National Swedish Police, Security Department (1985)Chairman of the Board of the Bond Group (1985)Former Secretary General of NATO (1985)Former Chief Economic Adviser to President Reagan, USA (1984)Minister of Finance, Sweden (1984)Chairman of the Board of Bank of America (1984)President of VISA International (1984)Chairman of the Board and CEO of Volvo (1984)Member of the Board of Philips (1983)Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany (1983)British journalist and writer (1983)Former Secretary of State of the USA (1983)Prime Minister of Sweden (1982)Former Prime Minister of France (1982)Member of the Supreme Council of the USSR (1982)Former President of the USA (1982)Secretary General of OPEC (1982)Former Trade Minister of Great Britain (1981)Former President of the USA (1981)Former Secretary of State of the USA (1981)Professor of Management Studies, Japan (1981)Former Secretary of Energy and Defence of the USA (1980)

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annen som stod i Executive Clubstalarstol hade da tills nyligen styrtUSA. Med den insikt, som bara den med

tillrackligt stor utsikt ager talade ban om "The US rolein the post cold-war era". George Bush stannade kvaruppe pa podiet efter fragestunden; han samtaladeoppet och ledigt och uppskattade uppenbarligen attkomma i direktkontakt med sitt auditorium. GeorgeBushs besb'k blev ytterligare en bekraftelse pa vadsom kan forefalla vara en paradox: Mitt i denaccelererande teknik, som mojliggor ett snabbareinformationsutbyte an nagonsin tidigare, bibehallerdet personliga motet sin suverana position. Inget kanersatta stundens stamning. Gnistan av kontakt,utspelet som blir just da.

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the USA. With this insight, which only someonewith a sufficiently wide perspective could possess, hetalked about "The US role in the post cold-war era".George Bush stayed up on the podium after question-time; he talked openly and willingly and obviouslyappreciated coming in direct contact with his audience.His visit was a further confirmation of what can seemto be a paradox: In the midst of acceleratingtechnology, which makes the exchange of informationpossible far faster than ever before, the personalmeeting retains its supreme position. Nothing canreplace the atmosphere of the moment, the spark ofcontact, the interaction fust then.

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Sedan 1980 bar Executive Club haft som uppgift attordna sadana moten pa hog niva. Va'rlden blir allt merglobal. Det svenska naringslivet allt mer internationellt.Behovet av att sa initierat som mojligt fo'lja ochanalysera politikens och ekonomins snabba svangningarblir allt tydligare. Executive Club bildar la'nken mellanma'nniskor som a'r med och paverkar ha'ndelserna i vartland och de ma'nniskor som pa nagot satt har inflytandeover varldens handelser. Ett medlemskap i ExecutiveClub betyder tillgang till ett exklusivt forum, dar svenskabeslutsfattare far traffa varldens tongivande politikeroch foretagsledare. En av klubbens medlemmar, PejeEmilsson pa KREAB,uttrycker det sa har: "Ettosedvanligt fornuftigt sattatt med effektivitet ochtrivsamhet fa lukta pa ochlyssna til l personer sombetyder mer for varlden -och for Sverige - an defiesta!"

Influence

The Executive Club has arranged high-level meetings of thiskind since 1980. The world is becoming increasingly global- and Swedish trade and industry increasinglyinternational. The need to stay well-informed by followingand analysing rapid shifts in politics and economics isbecoming increasingly obvious. The Executive Club formsthe link between those who influence events in our countryand the people who, in some way, influence world events.Membership of the Executive Club offers access to anexclusive forum where Swedish decision-makers can meetthe world's leading politicians and business executives. Oneof the Club's members, Peje Emilsson of KREAB, puts it

like this-. "An exceptionallysensible way of effectivelyand pleasantly gainingan impression of, andlistening to, people whomean more to the world -and to Sweden - thanmost".

Den prominenta gastl istan har hunnit blimycket lang. I talarstolen har blancl andraHenry Kissinger, limmy Carter, CeorgyArbatov, Dalai Lama, Wi l ly Brandt, OlofPalme, Carl Bildt, Lee lacocca, MargaretThatcher och Michail Gorbatjov statt Ettlysande uppbad av ledande person I igheter -statsministrar, presidenter riksbankscliefer,marketingmastare och foretagsledare - hargastat klubben och delat med sig av a'sikteroch exklusiv fcirhandsintormation.

I den efterfol jande paneldebatten, leddav en namnkunnig tragepanel kan avenpubliken stalla Iragor. Mellan skarpsinnighetoch salta f inns det plats ocksa for ett ochannat befnande skratt och samtdlsnivan arsadan att den tormar tra'nga bortom cleetablerade. of f ic ie l la sanningama. Kkit 'benssamniankomster ar helt skitna, hit in slappsvarken tidningar, radio eller TV. Inte ensSvenska Pagbladet. som ar huvudmuii forExecutive Club Daremot heir inedlemmamamojlighet att ta med sig en gast

Ett rnedlemskap i Executive Club arallt id personligt och erbJLids t i l l svenskaforetagsledare och chefer inom stats-forvaltningen Som medlemmar haller de siginte bara a jour med stromningar ochhandelser i varlden, de far ocksa chansen tillinformellt umgange med varandra. Endokumentation skickas ut efter var je mote, saaven de som inte kan narvara far ta del avforedragets innehall. Medlemskapet gerdessutom andra exklusiva fonnaner.

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Membership of the Execut ive Club is alwayspersonal and is offered to Simfrs/i businessexecutives and heads in public a d m i n i s t r a t i o n .As members. l l \eu not only keep up- to-da te wi thtrends and events in the world, theu also have theoppo r tun i t y to meet each other informal ly .Documentation is sent out after each meeting, sothose who were unable to a t t e n d then know whalthe ta lk was abou t . Membership also provideso t h e r ( ' X i l u s i i r benefi ts .

The E \ e c i i l i \ c Club meets at leas! f o u r l imes ayear New. t x c i l i n g speakers will be v is i t ing the

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