UN Security Council convenes in remote Swedish farmhouse Members of the UN Security Council and Swedish officials arrive in Backåkra in Southern Sweden for an informal meeting in a bid to overcome deep divisions over how to end the war in Syria. It's the first time the council holds its annual brainstorming session outside of the United States. Backåkra was the summer residence of Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations' second secretary-general who died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES