NEW YORK, LONDON and BERTRANGE, Luxembourg, May 27, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Millicom International Cellular S.A. (Nasdaq:MICC), the global telecommunications investor, announced today that all resolutions proposed to its Annual General Meeting (AGM) of shareholders in Luxembourg today were passed.
Vigo Carlund, Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, Raymond Kirsch and Hakan Ledin were re-elected as members of the Board of Directors and Ernest Cravatte, Daniel Johannesson, Michel Massart and Cristina Stenbeck were elected as new members of the Board of Directors. The Auditors were re-elected.
Ernest Cravatte is a practising lawyer in Luxembourg and a former member of the Executive Management of Banque Generale du Luxembourg (BGL). He has also held positions on various banking supervisory committees. Daniel Johannesson has held a number of senior Executive positions at major Swedish companies including Senior Executive of construction company Skanska, where he was responsible for the Group's telecommunications and facilities management interests, and CEO of Industriforvaltnings AB Kinnevik and national railway operator SJ. Michel Massart is a former Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Belgium, where he set up the Corporate Finance Department in 1997, a former member of the Board of the Institute of Statutory Auditors, and is currently a professor at Solvay Business School in Brussels. Cristina Stenbeck is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Industriforvaltnings AB Kinnevik, Invik & Co. and Metro International, and a member of the Board of Directors of Modern Times Group, Tele2 and Transcom WorldWide. Hakan Ledin is Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications investor with cellular operations in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It currently has a total of 16 cellular operations and licenses in 15 countries. The Group's cellular operations have a combined population under license (excluding Tele2) of approximately 382 million people. In addition, MIC provides high-speed wireless data services in five countries. MIC also has a 6.0% interest in Tele2 AB, the leading alternative pan-European telecommunications company offering fixed and mobile telephony, data network and Internet services to 17.7 million customers in 22 countries. The Company's shares are traded on the Luxembourg Bourse and the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol MICC.
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