Thorvald Stoltenberg

Thorvald Stoltenberg
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
3 November 1990 – 2 April 1993
Prime MinisterGro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded byKjell Magne Bondevik
Succeeded byJohan Jørgen Holst
In office
9 March 1987 – 16 October 1989
Prime MinisterGro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded byKnut Frydenlund
Succeeded byKjell Magne Bondevik
Minister of Defence
In office
8 October 1979 – 14 October 1981
Prime MinisterOdvar Nordli
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded byRolf A. Hansen
Succeeded byAnders Sjaastad
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
In office
1 January 1990 – 3 November 1990
Preceded byJean-Pierre Hocké
Succeeded bySadako Ogata
President of the Norwegian Red Cross
In office
1999–2008
Preceded byAstrid Nøklebye Heiberg
Succeeded bySven Mollekleiv
Norwegian Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
1989–1990
Preceded byTom Vraalsen
Succeeded byMartin Huslid
Personal details
Born(1931-07-08)8 July 1931
Oslo, Norway
Died13 July 2018(2018-07-13) (aged 87)
Oslo, Norway
Political partyLabour
SpouseKarin Heiberg
ChildrenCamilla
Jens
Nini

Thorvald Stoltenberg (8 July 1931 – 13 July 2018) was a Norwegian politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Defence from 1979 to 1981 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1987 to 1989 and again from 1990 to 1993 in two Labour governments.

From 1989 to 1990, Stoltenberg served as the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations. In 1990, he became the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, serving for one year after which he rejoined the Norwegian government.[1][2] In 1992, Stoltenberg, together with nine Baltic ministers of foreign affairs and an EU commissioner, founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty.[3] In 1993, he was appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the former Yugoslavia and U.N. Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the former Yugoslavia. Thorvald Stoltenberg was also the UN witness at the signing of Erdut Agreement.[4]

In 2003 he was appointed chairman of the board of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). Between 1999 and 2008, he was President of the Norwegian Red Cross, the only president to serve three terms.[5] He was also a member of the Trilateral Commission, and held a seat on their executive committee.[1][6][7]

At the local level, Stoltenberg was elected to the Oslo City Council in 2015.[8]

  1. ^ a b "Thorvald Stoltenberg - SourceWatch". www.sourcewatch.org. The Center for Media and Democracy. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  2. ^ "ISAD UNHCR Fonds 13 Records of the High Commissioner". UNHCR. 11 December 2009.
  3. ^ Kristensen, Gustav N. (2010). Born into a dream: EuroFaculty and the council of the Baltic Sea States. Berlin: BWV, Berliner Wiss.-Verl. ISBN 978-3-8305-1769-6.
  4. ^ Agreement has four signatures: Šarinić, Milanović, Galbraith, and Stoltenberg
  5. ^ Mood, Robert (21 July 2018). "Minneord over Thorvald Stoltenberg". Røde Kors (in Norwegian). Norwegian Red Cross. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  6. ^ Starec, Sebastian (16 May 2023). "Trilateral Commission - Prominent participants in the 1st Session in 1973". KGT (in Slovenian). Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  7. ^ Sklar, Holly, ed. (1980). Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. South End Press. p. 604.
  8. ^ "Dette er Oslos bystyre 2015 - 2019". www.aftenposten.no (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Retrieved 28 June 2023.

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