Bjørn Kristvik
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 Bjørn Kristvik    (diplomat) | |
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| Born | 19 March 1928 |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
Bjørn Inge Kristvik was a Norwegian diplomat.[1]
Career
He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1955. He was the secretary for the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs from 1966 to 1970, and was afterwards posted as a counsellor at the Norwegian delegation to NATO in Brussels.
He was leader of the security policy department in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1985-1988.[2]
He was Norwegian ambassador to Indonesia from 1974 to 1979, to Egypt from 1979 to 1984, to NATO from 1989 to 1992 and to Canada from 1992 to 1996.[3]
Kristvik was sitting ten meters away from Egypt's president, Anwar Sadat, when Sadat was killed during a military parade in Cairo in 1981.[4]
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References
- ↑ https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Inge_Kristvik
- ↑ https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/nar-folk-hadde-fatt-for-mye-innabords-var-det-ikke-vanskelig-a-fa-informasjon/60903406
- ↑ https://snl.no/Bj%C3%B8rn_Kristvik
- ↑ Norges ambassadør var vitne til udåden i Aftenposten den 7. oktober 1981.
