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$Unique_ID{COW02683}
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$Title{Norway
The Norwegian Government}
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$Author{Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen}
$Affiliation{Embassy of Norway, Washington DC}
$Subject{minister
member
committee
government
labour
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norwegian
oslo
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$Date{1990}
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Country: Norway
Book: Fact Sheets on Norway
Author: Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen
Affiliation: Embassy of Norway, Washington DC
Date: 1990
The Norwegian Government
On 3 November 1990 Labour Party leader Gro Harlem Brundtland formed her
third minority government, on the same day that Jan P.Syse's coalition
government of the Conservatives, the Christian Democracts and the Centre Party
had been honourably discharged. The direct cause of the downfall of the Syse
government was disagreement between the Conservatives and the Centre Party
regarding Norwegian demands in the context of the European Economic Area
negotiations between EFTA and the EC.
As the change of government took place during a parliamentary period, Ms
Harlem Brundtland will be operating with the same division of seats in the
national assembly as Jan P. Syse had. The general election in September 1989
resulted in a slender majority for the non-socialists (84 seats to 81). The
coalition partners in the former government controlled altogether 62 seats,
while the Labour Party had 63. This means that the Labour Party must seek
issue-by-issue support from other parties.
There are nine women in Gro Harlem Brundtland's government, compared with
eight in the former one. The number of ministers is unchanged, at 19.
The Norwegian Government as of 3 November 1990
Prime Minister, Ms Gro Harlem Brundtland
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Thorvald Stoltenberg
Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Mr Finn Kristensen
Minister of Defence, Mr Johan Jorgen Holst
Minister of Local Government, Mr Kjell Borgen
Minister of Labour and Government Administration, Ms Tove Strand
Gerhardsen
Minister of Agriculture, Ms Gunhild Oyangen
Minister of Justice, Ms Kari Gjesteby
Minister of Fisheries, Ms Oddrunn Pettersen
Minister of Industry, Mr Ole Knapp
Minister of Environment, Mr Thorbjorn Berntsen
Minister of Transport and Communications, Mr Kjell Opseth
Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Ms Tove Veierod
Minister of Education, Research and Church Affairs, Mr Gudmund Hernes
Minister of Trade and Shipping, Ms Eldrid Nordbo
Minister of Children and Family Affairs, Mr Matz Sandman
Minister of Cultural Affairs, Ms Ase Kleveland
Minister of Finance, Mr Sigbjorn Johnsen
Minister of Development Cooperation, Ms Grete Faremo
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Prime Minister
Born in Oslo 20 April 1939. Married to Arne Olav Brundtland. Member of
parliament.
Degree in medicine from Oslo University 1963. Master's Degree in Public
Health, Harvard University, two years later.
Assistant senior medical officer at the Oslo Board of Health, 1969-74,
Minister of Environment 1974-79, Prime Minister 4 February -14 October 1981
and 9 May 1986 - 16 October 1989. When appointed Norwegian prime minister in
1981 she was the youngest ever to hold this position, and the first women to
do so. Led UN Commission on Environment and Development from 1984. Member of
parliament since 1977. She has served on the Standing Committee on Finance and
the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. Chaired the Standing Committee on
Foreign and Constitutional Affairs 1980 to 81, 1981-86 and 1989-90.
Parliamentary leader of the Labour Party 1981-86 and after the change of
government in 1989. She has been leader of the Labour Party since 1981.
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Born in Oslo, 8 July 1931. Married to Karin Stoltenberg. UN High
Commissioner for Refugees 1 January - 3 November 1990.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Oslo 1957. Joined Norway's foreign
service 1958. Later worked as international secretary of the Norwegian
Federation of Trade Unions (LO). State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs 1971-72 and 1976-79. Worked in Ministry of Defence 1973 and in
Ministry of Trade and Shipping 1974-76. Minister of Defence 1979-81. Member of
Oslo Town Council and Municipal Executive Board, and was municipal policy
counsellor for cultural affairs 1984-87. Minister of Foreign Affairs 1987-89.
Norwegian Ambassador to the UN for short period in 1989, until he was
appointed UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 1 January 1990.
Finn Kristensen
Minister of Petroleum and Energy
Born in Breivik 24 July 1936. Married to Bodil Kristensen. Director in
Statoil.
Former electrician. Member of parliament for 16 years from 1969. Minister
of Industry in Gro Harlem Brundtland's first government in 1981 and in her
second government, from 1986-89. Director in the T-invest company from 1985.
Johan Jorgen Holst
Minister of Defence
Born in Oslo 29 November 1937. Married to Marianne Heiberg. Director of
the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).
Master's degree in political science. Studied at Columbia University in
USA. State Secretary at Ministry of Defence 1976-79 and at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs 1979-81. Head of research at NUPI 1969-76. Minister of
Defence 1986-89. Adviser to the UN Commission on Environment and Development.
Has written a large number of books and research reports.
Kjell Borgen
Minister of Local Government
Born in Rendalen, 21 October 1939. Married to Oliv Ingeborg Borgen.
Member of parliament.
Elverum college of education 1960-62. Former Community initiative project
coordinator and headmaster. Chairman of Rendalen Labour Party 1964-67. Mayor
of Rendalen 1968-77. Member of Hedmark county council and county executive
board 1968-79. Deputy chairman of the county council 1974-75. Chairman of the
county development plan committee and of the steering committee for the
Hedmark County transport plan. Chairman of the Hedmark Labour Party from 1976.
Minister of Transport and Communications 1986-88 and Minister of Local
Government and Labour 1988-89. Member of parliament since 1977. Member of the
Standing Committee on Communications 1977-85 (leader 1981-85), deputy leader
of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Environment 1985-86 and
member of the Standing Committee on Church and Education 1989-90.
Tove Strand Gerhardsen
Minister of Labour and Government Administration
Born Solor 29 September 1948. Married to Rune Gerhardsen. Project
supervisor.
Degree in Economics, University of Oslo 1971. Member of Oslo town
council 1971-75. Political secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Shipping and
the Ministry of Finance. Minister of Health and Social Affairs 1986-89. Has
also been head of division in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Government
Administration (1978) and departmental director at the National Hospital in
Oslo, 1982-86.
Gunhild Oyangen
Minister of Agriculture
Born in Levanger 31 October 1947. Married to Egil Oyangen. Member of
parliament.
Master of Arts degree from the University of Trondheim, 1975. Has worked
as teacher and farmer. Has been politically active at both municipal and
county levels. Was leader of the Agdenes Labour Party and board member of Sor
Trondeland Labour party women's committee. Member of the executive board of
the Labour Party and also of the party's special committee on agriculture.
Member of parliament since 1989. Deputy leader of the Standing Committee on
Agriculture 1989-90.
Kari Gjesteby
Minister of Justice
Born in Oslo 16 May 1947. Married to Mikael Klingberg. Director in Norges
Bank.
Bachelor of Commerce, Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Administration, 1977. State Secretary in the Ministry of Church and Education
1976-86 and in the Ministry of Finance from 1979 to 81. Was the first
Norwegian woman to be Minister of Trade and