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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Swedish radio ham visits Pentagon</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Radio amateur<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Peter Hultqvist SM4HCF</strong><span> </span>is also Sweden&#39;s Defense Minister and it was in that capacity that he visited the Pentagon on Monday, May 7<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The ARRL report he visited Washington, DC, this week on the invitation of US Secretary of Defense James Mattis. A radio amateur since 1975, Hultqvist had previously served as chairman of the Defense Committee in Sweden’s parliament before become Minister of Defense in 2014. Professionally, he is a journalist and reporter.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Secretary Mattis welcomed Hultqvist and Finnish Defense Minister Jussi Niinistö to the Pentagon with an honor cordon on May 8 to discuss military cooperation between the three countries, and overall security policy. The three defense officials signed a trilateral statement of intent.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Source ARRL<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/view/sweden-s-new-defense-minister-peter-hultqvist-sm4hcf-visits-pentagon" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">http://www.arrl.org/news/view/sweden-s-new-defense-minister-peter-hultqvist-sm4hcf-visits-pentagon</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Defence Minister is radio ham<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/december/defence_minister_is_radio_ham.htm" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/december/<br style="box-sizing:border-box">defence_minister_is_radio_ham.htm</a></p>

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