Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)

Coordinates: 59°54′52.56″N 10°43′44.98″E / 59.9146°N 10.7291611°E / 59.9146; 10.7291611

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of Norway
Headquarters	Viktoria terrase, Oslo, Norway
Annual budget	Nok.34 billion
Agency executives	Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs Erik Solheim, Minister of International Development
Website
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/ud.html?id=833
Footnotes
List of Norwegian national agencies

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norwegian (Bokmål): Det kongelige Utenriksdepartement; Norwegian (Nynorsk): Det kongelege Utanriksdepartement) is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June 7, 1905, the same day the Parliament of Norway (Stortinget) decided to dissolve the personal union with Sweden.

The ministry is headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs, currently Jonas Gahr Støre, and the Minister of International Development, currently Erik Solheim. They have been cabinet ministers in the Red-Green Coalition government headed by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg since October 17, 2005. The ministry must not be related with the Norwegian Ministry of Defence that leads the defence-related agencies and units of the country.

Organisation

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organised with 110 foreign missions and three subordinate organisations: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), FK Norway (the Norwegian "Peace Corps") and the development country investment fund Norfund. The Ministry and foreign missions have a total staff of approx. 2,400.

The Political level

Unlike most Norwegian ministries the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has two ministers as head of the organisation. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is head of most policy areas and the administrative areas while the Minister of International Development heads the policy areas connected with international development. Some departments in the ministry thus report to both ministers.

Minister of Foreign Affairs (Jonas Gahr Støre)

• Two State Secretaries (Raymond Johansen and Liv Monica Bargem Stubholt)
• Political Advisor (Gry Larsen)
• Secretariat of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Communication Unit
• Legal Adviser

Minister of International Development (Erik Solheim)

• State Secretary (Anne Margareth Fagertun Stenhammer)
• Political Advisor (Torbjørn Urfjell)
• Secretariat of the Minister of International Development
• Head of Information
• Analytical Unit

The Operational level

The top public servant is the Secretary General (utenriksråd) with an Assistant Secretary General as substitute (the latter also with a special responsibility for international development issues).

The Ministry was reorganised on June 19, 2006 - and currently has eight departments, each headed by a Director General (ekspedisjonssjef):^{[citation needed]}

• Department for European Affairs and Trade Policy
• Department for Security Policy and the High North
• Department for Regional Affairs and Development
• Department for UN, Peace and Humanitarian Affairs
• Legal Affairs Department
• Promotion and Protocol Department
• Human and Financial Resources Department
• Internal and External Services Department

Subsidiaries

• Norfund
• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
• Fredskorpset

See also

• Foreign relations of Norway
• Norwegian diplomatic missions

References

External links

• Official website of the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Coordinates: 59°54′52.56″N 10°43′44.98″E / 59.9146°N 10.7291611°E / 59.9146; 10.7291611