Nils Daniel Carl Bildt KCMG ( born 15 July 1949 ) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999.

Bildt himself was married to Kerstin Zetterberg 1974 – 1975, Mia Bohman ( daughter of former Moderate party leader and Minister of Economy, Gösta Bohman ) 1984 – 1997 and is currently married to Anna Maria Corazza since 1998.

Bildt is or has been considered persona non grata in several countries for remarks he has made against various governments, including Croatia, where he " lost the credibility necessary for the role of a peace mediator " by suggesting that the former President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, was as guilty of war crimes as the Krajina Serb leader Milan Martić.

However, the criticism against Bildt for his interests subsided after he announced his intentions of divesting himself of all financial ties with the company as soon as is possible.

There have been reports that Wikileaks has documents proving Carl Bildt is a US spy, with various sources claiming Wikileaks is attempting blackmail.

Carl Bildt is involved with the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism, of which he is an honorary member and contributor to its publications.

het Bildt () is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands ; its capital is Sint Annaparochie.

Het Bildt was largely settled by Dutch inhabitants from South Holland ; as a result, the language generally spoken there is " Bildts ", a dialect that mixes Dutch ( as spoken in South Holland ) with West Frisian ; Bildts is usually classified as a dialect of Dutch.

Only in Minnertsga ( which did not become a part of the municipality of Het Bildt until 1984 ) is Frisian the predominant language.

Signage in Het Bildt is generally bilingual, with names given in both Dutch and Bildts.

The name Het Bildt is formed out of the word " opbilden " which means the silting up of land.

The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Carl Bildt, who was the Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994.

Like Het Bildt and Leeuwarden, Weststellingwerf and Ooststellingwerf are among the municipalities of Friesland, where West Frisian is not spoken.

In addition, Gustafsson is a skilled imitator and his many famous imitations include Sven Wollter, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Tony Rickardsson, Robert Aschberg and Magnus Härenstam as well as former Prime Ministers Göran Persson and Carl Bildt.

Bildt has also been noted internationally as a mediator in the Balkan conflict, serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

Carl Bildt also shown his commitment with the European Union project by joining the Young European Federalistsand later becoming vice president of the Swedish section.

Bildt was also a member of the board of independent oil company Lundin Petroleum.

Carl Söderbergh, Secretary General for the Swedish section of Amnesty International, has also criticized Bildt since Human Rights issues are within the portfolio of the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Bildt was also criticized for not mentioning the Srebrenica massacre during a lunch meeting on 15 July 1995 in Belgrade with the Serbian President, Slobodan Milošević and the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladić, even though he had received reports about the ongoing massacre.

Bildt has also been questioned for his role as a member of the International Advisory Council of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group with ties to the Bush administration pushing for an invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Bildt also called South Ossetian independence " a joke ", and said it would be supported only by a " miserable " lot of countries.

Bildt was also described as someone who thinks he has more power and influence than he really has and called him a " medium size dog with big dog attitude ".

Bildt also maintains a personal Twitter feed in English with approximately 125, 000 subscribed followers.

For linguistic reasons, the outlying and insular dialects of Midsland ( Terschelling ), Ameland, Het Bildt, and Kollum are also sometimes tied to Stadsfries.

His great-grandfather's brother Carl Bildt served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Cabinet-Secretary ( Under secretary of state of foreign affairs, in Swedish kabinettssekreterare ) and was a renowned diplomat and member of the Swedish Academy.

It was revealed following the organization WikiLeaks release of classified diplomatic documents that US diplomats considered Bildt as " stubborn ", " arrogant " and to have " limited political skills ".

** Carl Bildt, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Prime Minister of Sweden

Bildt's father Daniel Bildt ( 1920 – 2010 ) was a former major in the reserves of the now defunct Halland Regiment ( Hallands regemente ) and a former bureau director in the now defunct Civil Defense Board's Education Bureau.

Bildt in a meeting with former President of the United States | U. S. President Bill Clinton at Grand Hôtel ( Stockholm ) | Grand Hotel in Stockholm ( 15 May 2001 ).

Bildt opposed any military intervention and criticized the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1993 for calling NATO to intervene against the Bosnian Serb forces, which led to the Sunday Times calling Bildt and other EU leaders " robotic political pygmies " and their acceptance of the ongoing genocide " shameful ".

The Cabinet of Carl Bildt did much to reform the Swedish government: cut taxes, cut public spending, introduced voucher schools, made it possible for counties to privatize health care, liberalized markets for telecommunications and energy, and privatized former publicly owned companies ( further deregulations and privatizations were carried out by the following Social Democratic Cabinet of Göran Persson ).

* Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, and current Swedish minister for Foreign Affairs

At the end of May 1995, he was succeeded by the former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt.

Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995.

Meri's funeral was attended by ( among others ) former Swedish premier Carl Bildt

On 14 February 1995, Reinfeldt was called to a meeting of the Moderate Party's Riksdag group, which took place in the former second chamber () of the Swedish parliament building, a meeting where Bildt apparently scolded him for hours.

The former Swedish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was a Vice President.

The term was coined by Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt in a debate against the opposition leader Ingvar Carlsson 1994.

His great-great-grandfather, Baron Gillis Bildt, served as Prime Minister a century earlier and as a diplomat as well as Marshal of the Realm of Sweden ( riksmarskalk ).

Bildt and Richard Holbrooke before peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 1995. After his term as Prime Minister, Bildt was active as a mediator in the Balkans conflict, serving as the European Union Special Envoy to Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

On 6 October 2006, Bildt was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.

This was seen by many as a somewhat surprising move, because Bildt had already served both as Prime Minister and as leader of the Moderate Party and the previous conflict between Bildt and Reinfeldt.

Prime minister Carl Bildt relied at the time on a fragile coalition between the Moderate Party and three other liberal or conservative parties with a strained degree of cooperation.

The Moderate Party led a non-socialist coalition between 1991 and 1994 with Carl Bildt as Prime Minister.

Between 1991 and 1994 he was Minister for Development Cooperation in the liberal-conservative Cabinet led by Prime Minister Carl Bildt.

In the Swedish general election of 1991, the Moderate Party and its allies had considerable success, leading to the formation of a centre-right coalition government under Moderate Party leader and Prime Minister Carl Bildt.

At the beginning of his term as leader of the Moderate Youth League, Reinfeldt supported the government of Prime Minister Bildt, but Reinfeldt gradually changed his views and became more critical of the party leadership.

In parliament, New Democracy abstained from voting on the office of Prime Minister, and thus gave the four-party liberal-conservative government led by Carl Bildt its indirect support.

* Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt served as the EU's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia and was a Co-Chairman of the Dayton Conference.

However, due to a telephone call to Ingvar Carlsson from then Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt, who urged Carlsson to immediately return to Sweden due to the urgent state of the Swedish economy, all three flew back to Sweden the same day and thus probably escaped being assassinated as well.