Arne Arnesen (15 February 1928 – 17 December 2010) was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

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as a son of dentist Arne Arnesen (1900–1975) and modist Dordi Texnæs (1906–1996). The family moved to

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in 1932. Arnesen

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his secondary education, lived in

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for some time before enrolling in political science at the

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in 1949. He studied at the

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from 1951 until he graduated with the master's degree in 1953. He was a

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until 1955, when he started working for the

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. He was stationed at the

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from 1957 to 1960, worked out of Norway with development aid until 1964, then two years at the embassy in

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. Back in Norway he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1966 to 1971, then leader of the minister's secretariat. After a short stint in the newspaper ''

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'' in 1973 he served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1975. He was then the director of the

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from 1975 to 1982, Norway's ambassador to China from 1982 to 1987, State Secretary in the

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from 1987 to 1989 and ambassador to Denmark from 1990 to 1996. He was decorated with the Grand Cross of the

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in 1976 and the

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, and was a Commander of the

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. He died in December 2010.

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