On April 24, Ali Alatas waited in the waiting room of the Stockholm office of Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson. He had come to exchange views on the Aceh problem with Persson. Three hours passed, but the prime minister did not appear. As a replacement, Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, together with several officials from the Prime Ministers office came to meet him.

Alatas, Indonesia's former foreign minister and most senior diplomat, had been sent