Arne Langeland (24 November 1928-15 December 2019 erje Johannessen, Sverre Stub, Tore B. Næss, Arild H. Blixrud: Memoirs in Aftenposten 11 January 2020 article covering Langeland's death/ref>) is a Norwegian jurist, civil servant and diplomat. He was born in

Nøtterøy Nøtterøy is an island and a former municipality in the present-day municipality of Færder in Vestfold and Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Borgheim. The parish of ''Nøtterø'' was estab ...

, and is a

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

by education. He was hired in the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...

in 1953, and was promoted to subdirector in 1963. From 1965 to 1970 he served as counsellor to the embassy in Geneva. After an intermezzo working as a lawyer, he returned to diplomacy in 1976 as Vice Secretary General of the

European Free Trade Association The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe, European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerlan ...

. He was then appointed deputy under-secretary of state in the

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in 1978, and was permanent under-secretary of state from 1981 to 1982. Then, following six years as CEO of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, he was appointed Norwegian ambassador to France in 1988. He stayed in this position until 1993, then as Norwegian ambassador to the Netherlands from 1994 to 1996.

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