STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 28, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Today's Annual General Meeting of TeliaSonera AB (publ) approved the income statement and balance sheet for 2003.
The Annual General Meeting decided upon a dividend to shareholders of SEK 1.00 per share, and Monday 3 May 2004 was decided as the record date for the dividend. With this record date, it is estimated that the dividend will be sent out from VPC on Thursday 6 May 2004.
The shareholders' meeting discharged the Board of Directors and the CEO from liability for the financial year 2003.
Ordinary members Tom von Weymarn, Carl Bennet, Eva Liljeblom, Sven- Christer Nilsson, Paul Smits, Caroline Sundewall and Roger Talermo were re-elected.
Lennart Laftman and Timo Peltola were newly elected to the Board. Lennart Laftman was born in 1945 and has previously been the CEO of the fund Femte AP-fonden. Timo Peltola was born in 1946 and is the CEO of the packaging company Huhtamaki Oyj.
The following directors' fees were approved for the Board: to the Chairman, SEK 750,000; to the Deputy Chairman, SEK 550,000; and to the other directors, elected by the Annual General Meeting, SEK 400,000 each. In addition, a remuneration to the Chairman of the Board's Audit Committee of SEK 75,000 and of SEK 50,000 to each of the other members of the Audit Committee was approved.
It was decided to change the wording of Articles of Association No. 7 to: "The annual general meeting shall appoint no less than two and no more than three auditors and no more than the same number of deputy auditors. The annual general meeting can also appoint only one auditor, if the auditor in question is a registered auditor company."
The registered auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers AB, with Chief Auditor Goran Tidstrom, was appointed as auditor for the period until the end of the Annual General Meeting in 2008. The authorized public accountant Peter Bladh was elected as auditor until the time that the Annual General Meeting's decision to change the Articles of Association has been registered. It was stipulated that compensation to the auditors shall be paid on the basis of invoice.
For further information journalists can contact: TeliaSonera's Press Office, +46-(0)8-713 58 30
Forward-Looking Statements
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