TeliaSonera: TeliaSonera’s Annual General Meeting, April 7, 2010

Regulatory News:

Today’s Annual General Meeting of TeliaSonera AB (publ) (Nasdaq:TLSN) (STO:TLSN) (HEX:TLS1V) (LSE:TEE) decided the following:

The AGM approved the income statement and balance sheet for 2009.

The AGM decided upon a dividend to shareholders of SEK 2.25 per share, and April 12, 2010 was decided as the record date for the dividend. With this record date, it is estimated that the dividend will be sent out from Euroclear on April 15, 2010.

The AGM discharged the Board of Directors and the CEOs from liability for the financial year 2009.

Ordinary members of Maija-Liisa Friman, Conny Karlsson, Timo Peltola, Lars Renström and Jon Risfelt were re-elected. Ingrid Jonasson Blank, Anders Narvinger and Per-Arne Sandström were elected as a new ordinary members. Anders Narvinger was elected as Chairman of the Board.

The following Board remuneration was approved for the Board of Directors: to the Chairman, SEK 1,000,000 and to the other board members, elected by the AGM, SEK 425,000 each. In addition, remuneration to the Chairman of the Board's Audit Committee of SEK 150,000 and of SEK 100,000 to each of the other members of the Audit Committee, and remuneration to the Chairman of the Board’s Remuneration Committee with SEK 40,000 and of SEK 20,000 to each of the other members of the Remuneration Committee, were approved. All remuneration figures are the same as for previous period.

Björn Mikkelsen (Swedish state), Kari Järvinen (Finnish state via Solidium Oy), KG Lindvall (Swedbank Robur funds), Lennart Ribohn (SEB funds/SEB-Trygg Försäkring) together with Anders Narvinger (Chairman of the Board of Directors) were elected to the Nomination Committee.

The AGM decided to approve a proposal from the Swedish state regarding Guidelines for remuneration to the executive management. The guidelines do not, in contrast to a proposal from the Board of Directors, give a possibility to enter into contracts which include variable salaries with members of the executive management.

The AGM decided to implement a long-term incentive program 2010/2013 and hedging arrangements for the program. The program may include approximately 100 persons. Due to the AGM’s decision on Guidelines for remuneration to the executive management, members of the executive management will not take part in the program.

In order to provide the Board of Directors with an instrument to adapt and improve the company's capital structure and thereby create added value for the shareholders, the Annual General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to carry out acquisitions of own shares at one or more occasions prior to the Annual General Meeting 2011 on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and/or Nasdaq OMX Helsinki or in accordance with an offer to acquire shares directed to all shareholders, whereby a maximum of 10 percent of all shares in the company may be acquired.

TeliaSonera AB discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instrument Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 6 p.m CET on April 7 2010.

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.

TeliaSonera provides network access and telecommunication services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey, and in Spain. TeliaSonera is also the leading European wholesale provider of quality cross-border voice, IP and capacity services, with a wholly-owned international carrier network. TeliaSonera’s services help people and companies communicate in an easy, efficient and environmentally friendly way. TeliaSonera creates value by focusing on providing world-class customer experience, securing quality in networks and achieving a best-in-class cost structure. In 2009, TeliaSonera’s net sales amounted to SEK 109 billion, and at the end of December 2009 the total number of subscriptions was 147 million in 20 countries. The TeliaSonera share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Read more at www.teliasonera.com

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