Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)

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.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Utenriksministeren
Incumbent
Espen Barth Eide
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 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

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

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

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

Portrait Name Party Took office Left office Tenure Cabinet Ref
Jørgen Løvland Liberal7 June 190519 March 19082 years, 286 daysMichelsen
Løvland		[2][4]
Wilhelm Christophersen Liberal19 March 19082 February 19101 year, 320 daysKnudsen I[5]
Johannes Irgens Conservative2 February 191031 January 19132 years, 364 daysKonow
Bratlie		[6]
Nils Claus Ihlen Liberal31 January 191321 June 19207 years, 142 daysKnudsen II[7][8]
Christian Fredrik Michelet Conservative21 June 192022 June 19211 year, 1 dayBahr Halvorsen I[9]
Arnold C. Ræstad Liberal22 June 192131 May 1922343 daysBlehr II[10]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal31 May 19226 March 1923279 daysBlehr II[10]
Christian Fredrik Michelet Conservative6 March 192325 July 19241 year, 141 daysBahr Halvorsen II
Berge		[11][12]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal25 July 19245 March 19261 year, 223 daysMowinckel I[13]
Ivar Lykke Conservative5 March 192628 January 19281 year, 323 daysLykke[14]
Edvard Bull, Sr. Labour28 January 192815 February 192818 daysHornsrud[15]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal15 February 192812 May 19313 years, 86 daysMowinckel II[16]
Birger Braadland Agrarian12 May 19313 March 19331 year, 295 daysKolstad
Hundseid		[17][18]
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Liberal3 March 193320 March 19352 years, 17 daysMowinckel III[19]
Halvdan Koht Labour20 March 193519 November 19405 years, 244 daysNygaardsvold[20]
Trygve Lie Labour19 November 19402 February 19465 years, 75 daysNygaardsvold
Gerhardsen I-II		[20][21][22]
Halvard Lange Labour2 February 194628 August 196317 years, 207 daysGerhardsen II
Torp
Gerhardsen III		[22][23][24]
Erling Wikborg Christian Democratic28 August 196325 September 196328 daysLyng[25]
Halvard Lange Labour25 September 196312 October 19652 years, 17 daysGerhardsen IV[26]
John Lyng Conservative12 October 196522 May 19704 years, 222 daysBorten[27]
Svenn Stray Conservative22 May 197017 March 1971299 daysBorten[27]
Andreas Cappelen Labour17 March 197118 October 19721 year, 215 daysBratteli I[28]
Dagfinn Vårvik Centre18 October 197216 October 1973363 daysKorvald[29]
Knut Frydenlund Labour16 October 197314 October 19817 years, 363 daysBratteli II
Nordli
Brundtland I		[30][31][32]
Svenn Stray Conservative14 October 19819 May 19864 years, 207 daysWilloch I-II[33]
Knut Frydenlund Labour9 May 198626 February 1987262 daysBrundtland II[34]
Thorvald Stoltenberg Labour9 March 198716 October 19892 years, 221 daysBrundtland II[34]
Kjell Magne Bondevik Christian Democratic16 October 19893 November 19901 year, 18 daysSyse[35]
Thorvald Stoltenberg Labour3 November 19902 April 19932 years, 151 daysBrundtland III[36]
Johan Jørgen Holst Labour2 April 199313 January 1994286 daysBrundtland III[36]
Bjørn Tore Godal Labour24 January 199417 October 19973 years, 266 daysBrundtland III
Jagland		[36][37]
Knut Vollebæk Christian Democratic17 October 199717 March 20002 years, 152 daysBondevik I[38]
Thorbjørn Jagland Labour17 March 200019 October 20011 year, 216 daysStoltenberg I[39]
Jan Petersen Conservative19 October 200117 October 20053 years, 363 daysBondevik II[40]
Jonas Gahr Støre Labour17 October 200521 September 20126 years, 340 daysStoltenberg II[41]
Espen Barth Eide Labour21 September 201216 October 20131 year, 25 daysStoltenberg II[41]
Børge Brende Conservative16 October 201320 October 20174 years, 4 daysSolberg[42]
Ine Eriksen Søreide Conservative20 October 201714 October 20213 years, 359 daysSolberg[43]
Anniken Huitfeldt Labour14 October 202116 October 20232 years, 2 daysStøre[44]
Espen Barth Eide Labour16 October 2023present8 daysStøre[45]

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.[46]

Key

  Conservative Party

Ministers
Portrait Name Party Took office Left office Tenure Cabinet
Vidar Helgesen Conservative16 October 201316 December 20152 years, 61 daysSolberg
Elisabeth Aspaker Conservative16 December 201520 December 20161 year, 4 daysSolberg
Frank Bakke-Jensen Conservative20 December 201620 October 2017304 daysSolberg
Marit Berger Røsland Conservative20 October 201717 January 201889 daysSolberg

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