Kaj Björk

Kaj Åke Björk (25 December 1918 – 30 September 2014) was a Swedish social democratic politician and a diplomat.

Early life Björk was born on 25 December 1918 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the son of Adolf Björk and his wife Eva (née Jancke). He was the youngest of five siblings and his father died barely a year later, and the mother was left to cope with the family's livelihood on her teacher's salary. The family belonged to Gothenburg culture radical circles and Björk became politically active already in high school. He passed studentexamen in 1936

Björk was the editor of between 1951 and 1956 ) and vice chairman of the Committee on Cultural Affairs 1971-72. He was chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Group of the Riksdag from 1965 to 1973 and chairman of Swedish delegation of the Council of Europe from 1967 to 1973. Björk was also chairman of the 1968 Literature Inquiry (1968 års litteraturutredning) and a member of the Integration Safety Committee (Integrationsskyddskommittén).

He became ambassador in 1972 and was appointed ambassador in Beijing in 1975. In 1976 Björk, then the Swedish ambassador to the People's Republic of China, took part in a delegation visit to Kampuchea. He was one of few Western diplomats to visit Kampuchea during the Khmer Rouge rule. Björk left Beijing in 1980 and became ambassador in Ottawa (also accredited to Nassau ) which he was until 1984. the daughter of Otto Friberg and Hilma Margareta Olsson. They divorced and in 1952 he married Suzanne Székely (1919–2003),

Death Björk died on 30 September 2014. On 12 November 2014 he was interred and was buried at Galärvarvskyrkogården in Stockholm.