The former prime minister of Norway will be in service from the 1st of October
by Emiliano Biaggio
Jens Stoltenberg will be next NATO secretary general, the North Atlantic Council decided yesterday in Brussels. Former Norwegian prime minister will replace current chairman Anders Fogh Rasmussen, whose mandate will expire the 31st of September after five years and two months at the helm of the Alliance. Never before NATO had a Norwegian chairman. Leader of the Norwegian Labour party, Stoltenberg, 55 years old, is actually serving as UN special envoy for climate changes. He has been prime minister twice, and he had to deal with Anders Breivik's terrorist attacks in Oslo e Utøya. In total 90 people remained killed in what are the worst terrorist attacks ever committed into the kingdom. «I’ve known Jens Stoltenberg for many years and I know he’s the right man to build on NATO’s record of strength and success», declared current NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen. «Warm congratulations to Stoltenberg on his appointment as my successor». «Jens Stoltenberg is ideally placed to lead NATO at a crucial and challenging time, and to steer the Alliance into a successful future», stated the High representative of the European Union for foreign Affairs and security policy, Catherine Ashton. «It is with great pleasure that I learned of the appointment of Jens Stoltenberg as successor to Anders Fogh Rasmussen. I am very much looking forward to working with the new Secretary General».
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Jens Stoltenberg will be next NATO secretary general, the North Atlantic Council decided yesterday in Brussels. Former Norwegian prime minister will replace current chairman Anders Fogh Rasmussen, whose mandate will expire the 31st of September after five years and two months at the helm of the Alliance. Never before NATO had a Norwegian chairman. Leader of the Norwegian Labour party, Stoltenberg, 55 years old, is actually serving as UN special envoy for climate changes. He has been prime minister twice, and he had to deal with Anders Breivik's terrorist attacks in Oslo e Utøya. In total 90 people remained killed in what are the worst terrorist attacks ever committed into the kingdom. «I’ve known Jens Stoltenberg for many years and I know he’s the right man to build on NATO’s record of strength and success», declared current NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen. «Warm congratulations to Stoltenberg on his appointment as my successor». «Jens Stoltenberg is ideally placed to lead NATO at a crucial and challenging time, and to steer the Alliance into a successful future», stated the High representative of the European Union for foreign Affairs and security policy, Catherine Ashton. «It is with great pleasure that I learned of the appointment of Jens Stoltenberg as successor to Anders Fogh Rasmussen. I am very much looking forward to working with the new Secretary General».
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