The initiative, led by then Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, laid the groundwork for the Barents Euro-Arctic cooperation framework. The move to declare Kozyrev a foreign agent is ...

In 1992, he approved an initiativ from Norway's foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, the father of Jens Stoltenberg, to establish a national and regional level cross border cooperation in ...

Its lead negotiators, representing the EU and the UN, were international heavy-weights: Cyrus Vance, Lord David Owen, Thorvald Stoltenberg, Carl Bildt, and Martti Ahtisaari, who later won the ...

an art of diplomacy he learned at a young age from watching his parents – the prominent diplomat and politician Thorvald Stoltenberg and his wife Karin, also a veteran Labour Party figure in Norway.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that he is returning to government in his native Norway as finance minister. Stoltenberg led NATO from 2014 ...

About Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg, born in 1959, was secretary general of NATO from 2014 to 2024. The son of Thorvald Stoltenberg, who served as Norway's defense minister and foreign ...

Stoltenberg was born firmly into Norway’s political elite. His father, Thorvald, was a pillar of the dominant Labour party, and was defence minister when Stoltenberg did his mandatory military ...

Stoltenberg, now 65, was born into international politics. His father was a Norwegian diplomat and defense minister, his aunt a Middle East expert who was married to a defense and foreign minister.

In the center of Kirkenes, there is a bronze bust of the late Thorvald Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian minister of defense and foreign affairs, whose son is the current head of NATO. After the ...

For instance, the former Norwegian foreign minister, Thorvald Stoltenberg, made history by presenting his accreditation as ambassador to Margrethe II of Denmark dressed in a bunad. Many Norwegians ...