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Knut Hauge (diplomat)
Knut Hauge (born 28 July 1953) is a Norway, Norwegian diplomat. He took the cand.philol. degree in his education and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980. He served as consul-general in Murmansk from 1993 to 1994, as the Norwegian ambassador to Poland from 2005 to 2008, and Norwegian ambassador to Russia from 2008 to 2013. He presented his credentials to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on 27 February 2009. In 2014 he was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Norway to NATO, returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2018 as a deputy under-secretary of state. References 1953 births Living people Norwegian civil servants Ambassadors of Norway to Poland Ambassadors of Norway to Russia Permanent Representatives of Norway to NATO {{Norway-diplomat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Medvedev With Knut Hauge
Dmitri (russian: Дми́трий); Church Slavic form: Dimitry or Dimitri (); ancient Russian forms: D'mitriy or Dmitr ( or ) is a male given name common in Orthodox Christian culture, the Russian version of Greek Demetrios (Δημήτριος ''Dēmētrios'' ). The meaning of the name is "devoted to, dedicated to, or follower of Demeter" (Δημήτηρ, ''Dēmētēr''), "mother-earth", the Greek goddess of agriculture. Short forms of the name from the 13th–14th centuries are Mit, Mitya, Mityay, Mit'ka or Miten'ka (, or ); from the 20th century (originated from the Church Slavic form) are Dima, Dimka, Dimochka, Dimulya, Dimusha etc. (, etc.) St. Dimitri's Day The feast of the martyr Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica is celebrated on Saturday before November 8 ld Style October 26 The name day (именины): October 26 (November 8 on the Julian Calendar) See also: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar. The Saturday before October 26/November 8 is called Demetri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øyvind Nordsletten
Øyvind Nordsletten (born 1 June 1944) is a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Time. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974. He was the Norwegian ambassador to Ukraine from 1992 to 1996, deputy under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister from 1998 to 1999, Norwegian ambassador to Russia from 2000 to 2008 and to Ireland from 2008 to 2011. In 2011 he was assigned the position as the Norwegian Consul General in Murmansk, Russia. In 2000 he was decorated as a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a ci .... References 1944 births Living people People from Time, Norway Norwegian civil servants Ambassadors of Norway to Ukraine Ambassadors of Norway to Russia A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Norway To Poland
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Civil Servants
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *The Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. *Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øystein Bø
Øystein Bø (born 19 November 1959) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party. He is a cand.jur. by education and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. He served as subdirector from 2000 and head of department from 2001 to 2006. The next four years he spent as an embassy counsellor at the Norwegian delegation to NATO in Brussels. He served as secretary of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2013, and then entered politics as State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in states ... from 2013 to 2017. In 2018 he became the Norwegian Permanent Representative to NATO. References 1959 births Living people 21st-century Norwegian civil servants Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegard Ellefsen
Vegard Ellefsen (born 2 November 1950) is a Norwegian diplomat. He is a cand.polit. by education and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981. After a period as embassy counsellor at the Norwegian NATO delegation in Brussels from 1997 to 2002 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Here he served as senior adviser from 2002, deputy under-secretary of state from 2004 and director of politics from 2008. From 2010 to 2014 he was Norway's Permanent Representative to NATO, before being hired as chief of cabinet for NATO's new secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th secretary general of NATO since 2014. A member of the Norwegian Labour Party, he previously served as the 34th prime minister of Norway from 2000 to .... After one year he worked as a special envoy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Iraq/Syria affairs. He finished his career as Norwegian am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leidulv Namtvedt
Leidulv Namtvedt (born 1 October 1950) is a Norwegian diplomat. He is a cand.mag. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976, and served as embassy counsellor in Russia from 1991 to 1995. He returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1996 and served as deputy under-secretary of state from 1999 to 2006. Newspaper ''Dagens Næringsliv ''Dagens Næringsliv'' (Norwegian for "Today's Business"), commonly known as ''DN'', is a Norwegian newspaper specializing in business news. , it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, who was appointed i ...'' described it as "one of the most powerful and influential positions a person can hold in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs". From 2007 he was the Norwegian ambassador to Finland. In 2009 he unsuccessfully applied for the position as Norwegian ambassador to the United Kingdom. After a period in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of department from 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two North American. Established in the aftermath of World War II, the organization implemented the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949. NATO is a collective security system: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties. During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the perceived threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. The organization's motto is ''animus in consulendo liber'' (Latin for "a mind unfettered in deliberation"). NATO's main headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium, while NATO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev also served as the president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and prime minister of Russia between 2012 and 2020. Medvedev was elected president in the 2008 election. He was regarded as more liberal than his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, who was also appointed prime minister during Medvedev's presidency. Medvedev's top agenda as president was a wide-ranging modernisation programme, aiming at modernising Russia's economy and society, and lessening the country's reliance on oil and gas. During Medvedev's tenure, the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty was signed by Russia and the United States, Russia emerged victorious in the Russo-Georgian War, and recovered from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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