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Mats Hellström
Swedish politician (born 1942) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mats Hellström (born 12 January 1942[1] in Stockholm) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician.[1] He was minister of foreign trade from 1983 to 1986, minister for agriculture from 1986 to 1991 and minister of foreign trade again from 1994 to 1996.[1] He replaced Svante Lundkvist as agriculture minister in 1986.[2][3] During his term as agriculture minister Michael Sohlman was his state secretary.[2][3]
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He was the Swedish Ambassador to Germany from 1996 to 2001.[1] He also served as the governor of Stockholm County between 2002 and 2006.[1]