Jan Petersen

Jan Petersen   (politician)
Born	1946-06-11 Oslo, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Party	Norway/Conservative Party
Norway/Ambassador to Austria In office 9 January 2009 - 2014  Norway/Minister of Foreign Affairs In office 19 October 2001 - 17 October 2005 Preceded by Thorbjørn Jagland Succeeded by Jonas Gahr Støre  Norway/Leader of the Conservative Party In office 10 April 1994 - 9 May 2004 Succeeded by Jan Petersen"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Norway/Member of the Parliament In office 1 October 1981 - 30 September 2009 Succeeded by Jan Petersen"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Mayor of Oppegård In office 1 January 1976 - 30 September 1981 Succeeded by Jan Petersen"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Norway/Leader of the Young Conservatives In office 1 June 1971 - 1 June 1973 Succeeded by Jan Petersen"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.

Jan Petersen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party, and regarded as close to the United States.

Career

From 1971 to 1973 he was the leader of the Young Conservatives (Unge Høyre), the youth wing of the Conservative Party. He worked for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) 1975–1981.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1981, and was re-elected on six occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1973–1977.

He chaired the Conservative Party from 1994 to 2004. From 2001 to 2005, when the second cabinet Bondevik held office, Petersen was Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was a proponent of a Norwegian participation in the war on Iraq in 2003, but did not get parliamentary majority for it, since the attack failed to get approval from the UN.

After four years as Foreign Minister, he was the leader of the Parliamentary Defense Committee 2005–2009.

He led the parliamentary inquiry into the Norwegian participation in the NATO-attack on Libya in 2011, where the committee exonerated the Labour government on all counts of misleading or breaking international law. The "Participation met all constitutional requirements and all humanitarian principles", although it "had little understanding about what was happening in Libya".

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	Canada Toronto	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada
Brussels Forum/2007			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2008			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004	21 January 2004	25 January 2004	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.

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