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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Utenriksministeren
since 16 October 2023
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Member ofCouncil of State
SeatVictoria Terrasse, Oslo
NominatorPrime Minister
AppointerMonarch
With approval of Parliament
Term lengthNo fixed length
Constituting instrumentConstitution of Norway
Formation7 June 1905
First holderJørgen Løvland
SuccessionSecond to Prime Minister
DeputyState secretaries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
WebsiteOfficial website

The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bokmål: Utenriksministeren, Nynorsk: Utanriksministeren) 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.[1]

History

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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.[2] Forty people from five parties have held the position, all men excepting the current officeholder. From 1983 to 2013 the Minister of International Development, which was responsible for issues related to foreign aid, was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[3]

Notable officeholders

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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

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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

  Agrarian/Centre Party
  Christian Democratic Party
  Conservative Party
  Labour Party
  Liberal Party

Portrait Name Party Took office Left office Tenure Cabinet Ref
Jørgen Løvland Liberal 7 June 1905 19 March 1908 2 years, 286 days Michelsen
Løvland		 [2][4]
Wilhelm Christophersen Liberal 19 March 1908 2 February 1910 1 year, 320 days Knudsen I [5]
Johannes Irgens Conservative 2 February 1910 31 January 1913 2 years, 364 days Konow
Bratlie		 [6]
Nils Claus Ihlen Liberal 31 January 1913 21 June 1920 7 years, 142 days Knudsen II [7][8]
Christian Fredrik Michelet Conservative 21 June 1920 22 June 1921 1 year, 1 day Bahr Halvorsen I [9]
Arnold C. Ræstad Liberal 22 June 1921 31 May 1922 343 days Blehr II [10]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal 31 May 1922 6 March 1923 279 days Blehr II [10]
Christian Fredrik Michelet Conservative 6 March 1923 25 July 1924 1 year, 141 days Bahr Halvorsen II
Berge		 [11][12]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal 25 July 1924 5 March 1926 1 year, 223 days Mowinckel I [13]
Ivar Lykke Conservative 5 March 1926 28 January 1928 1 year, 323 days Lykke [14]
Edvard Bull, Sr. Labour 28 January 1928 15 February 1928 18 days Hornsrud [15]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal 15 February 1928 12 May 1931 3 years, 86 days Mowinckel II [16]
Birger Braadland Agrarian 12 May 1931 3 March 1933 1 year, 295 days Kolstad
Hundseid		 [17][18]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal 3 March 1933 20 March 1935 2 years, 17 days Mowinckel III [19]
Halvdan Koht Labour 20 March 1935 19 November 1940 5 years, 244 days Nygaardsvold [20]
Trygve Lie Labour 19 November 1940 2 February 1946 5 years, 75 days Nygaardsvold
Gerhardsen I-II		 [20][21][22]
Halvard Lange Labour 2 February 1946 28 August 1963 17 years, 207 days Gerhardsen II
Torp
Gerhardsen III		 [22][23][24]
Erling Wikborg Christian Democratic 28 August 1963 25 September 1963 28 days Lyng [25]
Halvard Lange Labour 25 September 1963 12 October 1965 2 years, 17 days Gerhardsen IV [26]
John Lyng Conservative 12 October 1965 22 May 1970 4 years, 222 days Borten [27]
Svenn Stray Conservative 22 May 1970 17 March 1971 299 days Borten [27]
Andreas Cappelen Labour 17 March 1971 18 October 1972 1 year, 215 days Bratteli I [28]
Dagfinn Vårvik Centre 18 October 1972 16 October 1973 363 days Korvald [29]
Knut Frydenlund Labour 16 October 1973 14 October 1981 7 years, 363 days Bratteli II
Nordli
Brundtland I		 [30][31][32]
Svenn Stray Conservative 14 October 1981 9 May 1986 4 years, 207 days Willoch I-II [33]
Knut Frydenlund Labour 9 May 1986 26 February 1987 262 days Brundtland II [34]
Thorvald Stoltenberg Labour 9 March 1987 16 October 1989 2 years, 221 days Brundtland II [34]
Kjell Magne Bondevik Christian Democratic 16 October 1989 3 November 1990 1 year, 18 days Syse [35]
Thorvald Stoltenberg Labour 3 November 1990 2 April 1993 2 years, 151 days Brundtland III [36]
Johan Jørgen Holst Labour 2 April 1993 13 January 1994 286 days Brundtland III [36]
Bjørn Tore Godal Labour 24 January 1994 17 October 1997 3 years, 266 days Brundtland III
Jagland		 [36][37]
Knut Vollebæk Christian Democratic 17 October 1997 17 March 2000 2 years, 152 days Bondevik I [38]
Thorbjørn Jagland Labour 17 March 2000 19 October 2001 1 year, 216 days Stoltenberg I [39]
Jan Petersen Conservative 19 October 2001 17 October 2005 3 years, 363 days Bondevik II [40]
Jonas Gahr Støre Labour 17 October 2005 21 September 2012 6 years, 340 days Stoltenberg II [41]
Espen Barth Eide Labour 21 September 2012 16 October 2013 1 year, 25 days Stoltenberg II [41]
Børge Brende Conservative 16 October 2013 20 October 2017 4 years, 4 days Solberg [42]
Ine Eriksen Søreide Conservative 20 October 2017 14 October 2021 3 years, 359 days Solberg [43]
Anniken Huitfeldt Labour 14 October 2021 16 October 2023 2 years, 2 days Støre [44]
Espen Barth Eide Labour 16 October 2023 present 1 year, 45 days Støre [45]

Minister of European Affairs

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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.[46]

Key

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  Conservative Party

Ministers

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Portrait Name Party Took office Left office Tenure Cabinet
Vidar Helgesen Conservative 16 October 2013 16 December 2015 2 years, 61 days Solberg
Elisabeth Aspaker Conservative 16 December 2015 20 December 2016 1 year, 4 days Solberg
Frank Bakke-Jensen Conservative 20 December 2016 20 October 2017 304 days Solberg
Marit Berger Røsland Conservative 20 October 2017 17 January 2018 89 days Solberg

References

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