Tarald Osnes Brautaset (born 28 September 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat. He is a

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by education, and started working for the

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in 1973. He was a member of the Norwegian delegation to the

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from 1988 to 1994, during the negotiations for Norwegian membership in the Union (which were stopped after the

1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum A referendum on joining the European Union was held in Norway on 27 and 28 November 1994. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 After a long period of heated debate, the "no" side won with 52.2 per cent o ...

) and then the

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. He then served as head of department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1997, and as an advisor from 1997 to 2000 and 2005 to 2008. He was the Norwegian ambassador to the

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from 2000 to 2005 and later the ambassador to

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from 2009 to 2014. Tarald Brautaset was appointed Commander of the

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in 2000. Brautaset lost the position in the United Kingdom after Bjarne Lindstrøm was removed from his office in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and installed in London instead.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brautaset, Tarald Osnes 1946 births Living people Norwegian civil servants Ambassadors of Norway to the United Kingdom Ambassadors of Norway to France