Conference on Dag Hammarskjöld's Plane Crash: Keynote Address by Ambassador Jan Eliasson 

On 29 February 2024, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (School of Advanced Study) and the UN Association Westminster hosted this conference to consider next steps for the current UN investigation into the tragic crash that killed the UN Secretary General and 15 others in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961. Further information about the conference and transcripts of many of the papers can be found on the Institute’s website at commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/. Here Ambassador Eliasson (former UN Deputy Secretary-General and Swedish Foreign Minister) speaks about the inspirational role of Hammarskjöld in international relations and the importance of the current UN investigation into Hammarskjöld’s death.