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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)

Norwegian government minister

Summary

Norwegian government minister

FieldValue
postMinister of Foreign Affairs
bodyNorway
native_nameUtenriksministeren
insigniaEmblem of the Norwegian Government.svg
insigniacaption
imageFile:Espen Barth Eide at the Nordic Council 2012 in Helsinki.jpg
alt
incumbentEspen Barth Eide
incumbentsince16 October 2023
departmentMinistry of Foreign Affairs
style
member_ofCouncil of State
reports_to
residence
seatVictoria Terrasse, Oslo
nominatorPrime Minister
appointerMonarch
appointer_qualifiedWith approval of Parliament
termlengthNo fixed length
termlength_qualified
constituting_instrumentConstitution of Norway
formation7 June 1905
firstJørgen Løvland
last
abolished
successionSecond to Prime Minister
deputyState secretaries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
salary
websiteOfficial website

The Minister of Foreign Affairs (, ) is a councilor of state and chief of the Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 16 October 2023, the position has been held by Espen Barth Eide of the Labour Party.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, based at Victoria Terrasse, Oslo, is responsible for Norway's relation with foreign countries, including diplomacy and diplomatic missions, trade, foreign aid and cooperation with international organisations. Except during the four in which a Deputy of the Prime Minister of Norway was appointed, the Minister of Foreign Affairs ranks second in the cabinet after the Prime Minister and is his deputy.

History

The position was created on 7 June 1905, the day Norway declared independence from Sweden, with the Liberal Party's Jørgen Løvland as the inaugural.

Notable officeholders

Halvard Lange (Labour) is the longest-serving, having held the position for more than eighteen years in four cabinets. The shortest-serving is the fellow party member, Edvard Bull, Sr., who held the position for the sixteen days that Hornsrud's Cabinet lasted. Johan Ludwig Mowinckel (Liberal) was appointed four times as minister. Three people have sat concurrently as Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs: Løvland, Mowinckel and Ivar Lykke (Conservative). Three officeholders would later become Prime Minister: Løvland, Mowinckel and Kjell Magne Bondevik (Christian Democratic). Two former Prime Ministers have held the office: John Lyng (Conservative) and Thorbjørn Jagland (Labour). Trygve Lie (Labour) resigned from the office to become the inaugural Secretary-General of the United Nations. Two people have died while in office: Knut Frydenlund and Johan Jørgen Holst (both Labour).

List of ministers

The following lists the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, their party, date of assuming and leaving office, their tenure in years and days, and the cabinet they served in.

:Key

PortraitNamePartyTook officeLeft officeTenureCabinetRefWilhelm ChristophersenArnold C. RæstadAndreas Cappelen
[[File:J. Løvland - no-nb digifoto 20160420 00234 NB NS NM 10313 (cropped).jpg100px]]LiberalMichelsen
Løvland
[[File:Wilhelm Christopher Christophersen utenriksminister.jpg100px]]LiberalKnudsen I
[[File:Johannes Irgens.jpg100px]]ConservativeKonow
Bratlie
[[File:Nils Claus Ihlen.jpg100px]]LiberalKnudsen II
[[File:Høyesterettsadvokat Christian Fredrik Michelet.jpg100px]]ConservativeBahr Halvorsen I
[[File:Blank.JPG100x100px]]LiberalBlehr II
[[File:Johan Ludwig Mowinckel.jpg100px]]Liberal
[[File:Høyesterettsadvokat Christian Fredrik Michelet.jpg100px]]ConservativeBahr Halvorsen II
Berge
[[File:Johan Ludwig Mowinckel.jpg100px]]LiberalMowinckel I
[[File:Ivar Lykke.jpg100px]]ConservativeLykke
[[File:Edvard Bull.jpg100px]]LabourHornsrud
[[File:Johan Ludwig Mowinckel.jpg100px]]LiberalMowinckel II
[[File:Birger Braadland.png100px]]AgrarianKolstad
Hundseid
[[File:Johan Ludwig Mowinckel.jpg100px]]LiberalMowinckel III
[[File:Halvdan Koht.jpg100px]]LabourNygaardsvold
[[File:Trygve Lie 1938.jpg100px]]LabourNygaardsvold
Gerhardsen I-II
[[File:25442 Halvard Lange.jpg100px]]LabourGerhardsen II
Torp
Gerhardsen III
[[File:41599 Erling Wikborg (cropped).jpg100px]]Christian DemocraticLyng
[[File:25442 Halvard Lange.jpg100px]]LabourGerhardsen IV
[[File:John_Lyng_by_Schrøder_(1932).JPG100px]]ConservativeBorten
[[File:Sven Stray 2009.jpg100px]]Conservative
[[File:I-HF0212.jpg100px]]LabourBratteli I
[[File:Blank.JPG100x100px]]CentreKorvald
[[File:Knut Frydenlund (1981).jpg100px]]LabourBratteli II
Nordli
Brundtland I
[[File:Sven Stray 2009.jpg100px]]ConservativeWilloch I-II
[[File:Knut Frydenlund (1981).jpg100px]]LabourBrundtland II
[[File:Thorvald Stoltenberg 2009.jpg100px]]Labour
[[File:(Bilden ar tagen vid Nordiska radets session i Oslo, 2003) (1).jpg100px]]Christian DemocraticSyse
[[File:Thorvald Stoltenberg 2009.jpg100px]]LabourBrundtland III
[[File:Johan Jørgen Holst, Pentagon 1993-03-16 (cropped).JPEG100px]]Labour
[[File:Bjorn Tore Godal 2009.jpg100px]]LabourBrundtland III
Jagland
[[File:Knut Vollebæk.JPG100px]]Christian DemocraticBondevik I
[[File:Thorbjorn Jagland.jpg100px]]LabourStoltenberg I
[[File:Jan Petersen, utrikesminister, Norge (Bilden ar tagen vid Nordiska radets session i Oslo, 2003).jpg100px]]ConservativeBondevik II
[[File:Norges utrikesminister Jonas Gahr Stoere.jpg100px]]LabourStoltenberg II
[[File:Espen Barth Eide at the Nordic Council 2012 in Helsinki.jpg100px]]Labour
[[File:Børge Brende.jpg100px]]ConservativeSolberg
[[File:SD meets with Norway’s Minister of Defence 170517-D-SV709-158 (34721980225) (cropped).jpg100px]]Conservative
[[File:Norges_kulturminister_Anniken_Huitfeldt_under_ett_nordiskt_kulturministermote_vid_Nordiska_Radets_session_2011_i_Kopenhamn.jpg100px]]LabourStøre
[[File:Espen Barth Eide at the Nordic Council 2012 in Helsinki.jpg100px]]Labourpresent

Minister of European Affairs

The Minister of European Affairs was responsible for cases related to the EEA and Norway's relation with the EU. The post was established on 16 October 2013 by the Solberg Cabinet, which at the time consisted of the Conservatives and the Progress Party. It was abolished on 17 January 2018 when the Liberals joined the Cabinet.

Key

Ministers

PortraitNamePartyTook officeLeft officeTenureCabinetVidar HelgesenElisabeth AspakerFrank Bakke-JensenMarit Berger Røsland
[[File:Vidar_Helgesen_portrett.jpg100px]]ConservativeSolberg
[[File:Elisabeth_Aspaker_2009.jpg100px]]ConservativeSolberg
[[File:Frank_Bakke-Jensen.jpg100px]]ConservativeSolberg
[[File:Marit_Berger_Røsland.jpg100px]]ConservativeSolberg

References

References

  1. (17 September 2009). "Deputy to the Norwegian Prime Minister". [[Government.no]].
  2. (16 October 2013). "Solberg kutter bistandsministeren". [[Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation]].
  3. (3 December 2007). "Christian Michelsen's Government". [[Government.no]].
  4. (3 December 2007). "Jøgen Løvland's Government". [[Government.no]].
  5. (3 December 2007). "Gunnar Knudsen's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  6. (3 December 2007). "Wollert Konow's (S.B.) Government". [[Government.no]].
  7. (14 April 2008). "Jens Bratlie's Government". [[Government.no]].
  8. (3 December 2007). "Gunnar Knudsen's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  9. (3 December 2007). "Otto B. Halvorsen's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  10. (3 December 2007). "Otto Blehr's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  11. (3 December 2007). "Otto B. Halvorsen's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  12. (3 December 2007). "Abraham Berge's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  13. (3 December 2007). "Johan Ludwig Mowinckel's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  14. (3 December 2007). "Ivar Lykke's Government". [[Government.no]].
  15. (3 December 2007). "Christopher Hornsrud's Government". [[Government.no]].
  16. (3 December 2007). "Johan Ludwig Mowinckel's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  17. (3 December 2007). "Peder Kolstad's Government". [[Government.no]].
  18. (3 December 2007). "Jens Hundseid's Government". [[Government.no]].
  19. (3 December 2007). "Johan Ludwig Mowinckel's Third Government". [[Government.no]].
  20. (12 December 2006). "Johan Nygaardsvoll's Government". [[Government.no]].
  21. (12 December 2006). "Einar Gerhardsen's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  22. (12 December 2006). "Einar Gerhardsen's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  23. (12 December 2006). "Oscar Torp's Government". [[Government.no]].
  24. (12 December 2006). "Einar Gerhardsen's Third Government". [[Government.no]].
  25. (12 December 2006). "John Lyng's Government". [[Government.no]].
  26. (12 December 2006). "Einar Gerhardsen's Fourth Government". [[Government.no]].
  27. (12 December 2006). "Per Borten's Government". [[Government.no]].
  28. (12 December 2006). "Trygve Bratteli's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  29. (12 December 2006). "Lars Korvald's Government". [[Government.no]].
  30. (12 December 2006). "Trygve Bratteli's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  31. (12 December 2006). "Odvar Nordli's Government". [[Government.no]].
  32. (12 December 2006). "Gro Harlem Brundtland's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  33. (12 December 2006). "Odvar Nordli's Government". [[Government.no]].
  34. (12 December 2006). "Gro Harlem Brundtland's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  35. (12 December 2006). "Jan Syse's Government". [[Government.no]].
  36. (12 December 2006). "Gro Harlem Brundtland's Third Government". [[Government.no]].
  37. (12 December 2006). "Thorbjørn Jagland's Government". [[Government.no]].
  38. (12 December 2006). "Kjell Magne Bondevik's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  39. (13 December 2006). "Jens Stoltenberg's First Government". [[Government.no]].
  40. (13 December 2006). "Kjell Magne Bondevik's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  41. (15 February 2008). "Jens Stoltenberg's Second Government". [[Government.no]].
  42. (16 October 2013). "Erna Solberg's Government". [[Government.no]].
  43. (20 October 2017). "Tre bytter i Regjeringen – Ine Eriksen Søreide første kvinnelige utenriksminister". [[Aftenposten]].
  44. (14 October 2021). "Norge har fått ny regjering". [[NRK]].
  45. (16 October 2023). "Her er Støre sine nye statsrådar". [[NRK]].
  46. (17 January 2018). "New Cabinet Without the EU Minister". Sunmørsposten.
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