It was 11.09.2003, that from early in the morning we informed, from the news, about the death of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh (or Ylva Anna Maria Lindh).  On 10 September 2003, four days before a referendum on replacing the Swedish krona as currency, with Euro, Lindh was stabbed by Mijailo Mijailović at the NK department store, in central Stockholm. She died the next morning at Karolinska Hospital.

Anna Lindh was lawyer, member of the Swedish Parliament with the Social Democrats until her assassination. She was on the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her death. Anna Lindh had been seen as a likely candidate to succeed Göran Persson as Social Democratic party leader.

Her greatest commitment was to international cooperation and solidarity, as well as to environmental issues. She worked on these issues throughout her career, serving as Environment Minister from 1994 to 1998, and then as Foreign Minister for the last five years of her life.