Jan Petersen
Jan Petersen (politician) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 1946-06-11 Oslo, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Party | Norway/Conservative Party | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian politician regarded as close to the United States.
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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 beena 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"[1], although it "had little understanding about what was happening in Libya".
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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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. |