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7 unusual facts about Jonas Gahr Støre


2011 executions in Iran

Earlier, on April 21, 2011, the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre also condemned Iran's increase in public executions.

Arctic policy of Russia

On September 15, 2010, Foreign Ministers Jonas Gahr Støre and Sergei Lavrov, of Norway and Russia respectively, signed a treaty that effectively divided the disputed territory in half between the two countries, and also agreed to co-manage resources in that region where they overlap national sectors.

Jonas Gahr Støre

He later became an ambassador in the Norwegian Delegation to the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Støre started his professional career as a teaching fellow in the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School in 1986.

He attended Berg School in Oslo, then underwent naval officer training at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy.

Numerous polls showed that Støre was the most popular member of the contemporaneous government, although political scientist Frank Aarebrot has said that it is not difficult for foreign ministers to win popularity surveys.

Tjostolv Moland

Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway's foreign minister at the time of Moland and French's arrest and conviction, said "... I understand, of course, that those that lost their son assign blame for that it was not possible to help them, and I am very saddened that we were not able to do that".


2009 Strasbourg–Kehl summit

Pre-summit speculation about the next NATO Secretary-General focused on five candidates: Bulgaria's former Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Canada's Defense Minister Peter MacKay, and Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.


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