Extraordinary General Meeting in TeliaSonera AB...

Press Release
December 18, 2006

Extraordinary General Meeting in TeliaSonera AB, January 17, 2007

TeliaSonera AB (publ) summons to an Extraordinary General Meeting at 3.30 p.m.
on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö, Stockholm. The
premises will open at 3.00 p.m. The Extraordinary General Meeting will be
interpreted into English and Finnish
Right to participate
Those wishing to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting must
- be listed as shareholders in the printout of the register of shareholders
issued by VPC AB on Thursday, January 11, 2007 and
- have notified TeliaSonera AB of their intent to participate in the
Extraordinary General Meeting not later than 4.00 p.m. Swedish time on Thursday,
January 11, 2007.

Notice etc.
Notice of participation can be made in writing to TeliaSonera AB, Box 10, SE-182
11 Danderyd, Sweden, by telephone [phone], by fax [phone], or, for
private individuals, via the Internet at www.teliasonera.com under section
Investor Relations. Notice may be provided by phone on weekdays between 9.00
a.m. and 5.00 p.m. Swedish time (however, not later than 4.00 p.m. on Thursday,
January 11, 2007). The notice must include name/company, social
security/corporate registration number, address, telephone number (office hours)
and number of accompanying persons. To facilitate admission to the Extraordinary
General Meeting, powers of attorney, registration certificates and other
authorizing documents should be sent to the Company at the above address at the
latest by Monday, January 15, 2007. Please note that any powers of attorney must
be submitted in the original, and thus cannot be sent via the Internet or fax.

In order to be able to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting,
shareholders who have allowed their shares to be registered in trust must
temporarily re-register their shares in the register of shareholders under their
own names by Thursday, January 11, 2007. These shareholders must notify their
trustees of this well in advance of Thursday, January 11, 2007 when the
re-registrations shall have been completed. This procedure may also be
applicable for shareholders who are using a bank's share deposit and/or are
trading via the Internet.
As Finnish shareholders within the Finnish book-entry system (APK) are nominee
registered at VPC, these Finnish shareholders have to contact APK, by e-mail:
[e-mail] or by phone: [phone], for re-registration well in
advance of January  11, 2007  to be able to participate in the Extraordinary
General Meeting. Please note that APK will not automatically re-register all
shareholders. Please also note that these Finnish shareholders still have to
notify TeliaSonera of their intention to participate as described above.

Agenda:
Opening of the Extraordinary General Meeting
1. Election of chairperson of the meeting
2. Preparation and approval of voting register
3. Election of two persons to check the meeting minutes along with the
chairperson
4. Adoption of agenda
5. Confirmation that the meeting has been duly and properly convened
6. Removal of members of Board of Directors
7. Number of board members
8. Election of Board of Directors. The election will be preceded by information
from the chairperson concerning positions held in other companies by the
candidates

Closing of the Extraordinary General Meeting

Background
1.      The Annual General Meeting held on April 27, 2006 decided that the number of
members of the board is eight with no deputy board members. Members representing
the employees will be nominated separately. The Annual General Meeting elected
the following persons to be the members of the Board of Directors until the next
Annual General Meeting: Carl Bennet, Eva Liljeblom, Lennart Låftman, Lars-Erik
Nilsson, Sven-Christer Nilsson, Timo Peltola, Caroline Sundewall och Tom von
Weymarn. The Annual General Meeting elected Tom von Weymarn as the Chairman of
the Board of Directors and Carl Bennet as the Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors.
2.      The Nomination Committee consisting of Jonas Iversen, the Chairman (Swedish
state), Markku Tapio (Finnish state), KG Lindwall (Robur), Lennart Ribohn (SEB-
fonder / SEB-Trygg Försäkring), Christer Gardell (Cevian Capital) and Tom von
Weymarn (the Chairman of the Board of Directors) and representing approximately
64% of the shares and voting rights has proposed in December 2006 changes to
members of the Board of Directors and asked the Board of Directors to summon an
Extraordinary General Meeting in January 2007 .

Proposals of the Nomination Committee

The Nomination Committee presents the following proposals:
-       Chairman of the meeting: Sven Unger
-       Decide that Carl Bennet, Eva Liljeblom, Lennart Låftman, Lars-Erik Nilsson and
Sven-Christer Nilsson will leave their positions as Board Members at the Meeting

-       Number of board members: Seven with no deputy board members
-       Election of new board members: Maija-Liisa Friman, Conny Carlsson, Lars G
Nordström and Jon Risfelt

Mrs Maija-Liisa Friman, 54, is today CEO of the Aspocomp Group Oyj. She also has
board assignments in Metso Oyj and Sponda Oyj.

Mr Conny Karlsson, 51, is today chairman of the boards of SEB Investment
Management AB and Zodiak Television AB. He is also a member of the boards of
Scribona AB, Swedish Match AB and Lindex AB. He has earlier been CEO of Duni AB
and has held several management positions in Procter & Gamble.

Mr Lars G Nordström, 63, is today President and CEO of Nordea Bank AB, chairman
of the boards of the Royal Swedish Opera, the Finnish-Swedish Chamber of
Commerce and the European Financial Management & Marketing Association (EFMA).
He is also a member of the boards of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce
and Viking Line Abp.

Mr Jon Risfelt, 45, is today Senior Advisor for the Gambro Group and holds board
assignments at Enea Data AB, Bilia AB and Svensk Fastighetsförmedling AB. He has
earlier been CEO of Europolitan AB and Vodafone Sweden AB

A presentation of the candidates nominated by the Nomination Committee for
election to the Board of Directors is available at the website of TeliaSonera,
www.teliasonera.com, see section Investor Relations, and will be available at
the Extraordinary General Meeting as well.

The proposal of the Nomination Committee means that Caroline Sundewall, Timo
Peltola and Tom von Weymarn will continue as members of the Board of Directors
and that Tom von Weymarn will continue as the Chairman of the Board of Directors
and that the Extraordinary General meeting does not nominate a Vice Chairman of
the Board of Directors.

Shareholders representing approximately 64% of the stock and votes in the
company have stated that they support the proposals presented by the Nomination
Committee.

Stockholm, December 2006
The Board of Directors



Forward-Looking Statements
Statements made in the press release relating to future status or circumstances,
including future performance and other trend projections are forward-looking
statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and
uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will
occur in the future. There can be no assurance that actual results will not
differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements due to many factors, many of which are outside the control of
TeliaSonera.

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For further information journalists can contact:
Press office, TeliaSonera AB, [phone]

TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic
regions. At the end of December 2005 TeliaSonera had 19,146,000 mobile customers
(69,887,000 incl associated companies) and 7,064,000 fixed telephony customers
(7,688,000 incl associated companies) and 2,263,000 internet customers
(2,331,000 incl associated companies). Outside the home markets TeliaSonera has
extensive interests in the growth markets in Russia, Turkey and Eurasia.
TeliaSonera is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock
Exchange. Net sales January-December 2005 amounted to SEK 87.7 billion. The
number of employees was 28,175.