attached to his jacket) "now we better see an end to these fag issues" (nu får det väl vara slut på de här bögfrågorna) during a SIDA conference – he was able to maintain the trust of prime minister Göran Persson and keep his place in the Cabinet. His appointment as acting Minister for Foreign Affairs following the death of Anna Lindh on 11 September 2003, was a short-term solution. Changes in government, effective on 10 October the same year, forced him to resign his post. References Jan O. Karlsson at European Court of Auditors 1939 births 2016 deaths Swedish Ministers for Foreign Affairs Swedish Ministers for International Development Cooperation 21st-century Swedish politicians Politicians from Stockholm Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians Stockholm University alumni European Court of Auditors