BERTRANGE, Luxembourg, May 7, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ordinary general meeting of shareholders of MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A. will be held at Chateau de Septfontaines, 330, rue de Rollingergrund, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on May 25, 2004 at 4.00 p.m. to consider and vote on the following resolutions:
1 To receive the Management Report of the Board of Directors and the Report of the Auditors on the consolidated and parent company accounts at 31st December 2003.
2 To approve the consolidated and parent company accounts for the year ended 31st December 2003.
3 To allocate the result of the year ended 31st December 2003.
4 To discharge the Board of Directors and the Auditors for the year ended 31st December 2003.
5 To appoint the Directors.
6 To appoint the Auditors.
7 To determine the Directors fees for 2003 and 2004.
8 To pass a resolution in accordance with the requirements of article 100 of the law of August 10, 1915 on commercial companies as amended.
9 To approve the grant of stock options.
10 To approve the change in the vesting period of certain stock options.
There is no quorum of presence requirement for the meeting. Participation in the annual general meeting is reserved to shareholders who file their intention to attend the meeting by mail and/or return a duly completed proxy form at the following address: Millicom International Cellular SA, 75, route de Longwy, L-8080 Bertrange, attention: Veronique Mathieu Tel: +352 27 759 287, Fax: +352 27 759 359 no later than Friday, May 21, 2002, 5:00 p.m. Proxy forms are available upon request at the registered office of the Company.
Holders of Swedish Depository Receipts wishing to attend the meeting or be represented at the meeting via proxy have to request a power of attorney from Fischer Partners Fondkommission AB, P.O. Box 16027, SE-103-21 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel: +46 8 463 85 00 and send it duly completed to the following address: Millicom International Cellular SA, 75, route de Longwy, L-8080 Bertrange, attention: Veronique Mathieu Tel: +352 27 759 287, Fax: +352 27 759 359, no later than Friday, May 21, 2002, 5:00 p.m. Those holders of Swedish Depository Receipts having registered their Swedish Depository Receipts in the name of a nominee must temporarily register the Swedish Depository Receipts in their own name in the records maintained by VPC AB in order to exercise their shareholders' rights at the meeting. Such registration must be completed no later than Friday May 14, 2004.
May 7, 2004 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 of approximately 387 million people.
This press release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" with respect to Millicom's expectations and plans, strategy, management's objectives, future performance, costs, revenues, earnings and other trend information. It is important to note that Millicom's actual results in the future could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements depending on various important factors. Please refer to the documents that Millicom has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including Millicom's most recent annual report on Form 20-F, for a discussion of certain of these factors.
All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Millicom on the date hereof. All written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to Millicom International Cellular S.A., any Millicom International Cellular S.A. members or persons acting on Millicom's behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the factors referred to above. Millicom does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
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