Utenriksdepartementet
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| State level | State level | ||
| Position of the authority | Ministry | ||
| Consist | since 1905 | ||
| Headquarters | Oslo | ||
| Foreign Minister | Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide | ||
| Website | regjeringen.no | ||
The Utenriksdepartementet (short: UD) is the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . It is responsible for Norway's relations with other countries and international organizations, as well as for foreign trade and development aid. Since October 2017, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide from the conservative Høyre party has been the foreign minister and Dag Inge Ulstein from the Christian democratic Kristelig Folkeparti (KrF) the development minister of Norway.
history
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established on June 7, 1905, when the Union of Norway with Sweden was dissolved. During the Second World War , the Utenriksdepartementet was relocated to London and returned to Norway on July 1, 1945. In 1988 the Ministry of Commerce and Shipping was incorporated into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in 1990 the Ministry of Development (Departementet for utviklingshjelp) followed . This should enable foreign, trade and development policy to be better coordinated in a joint ministry. From 1988 to 1996 there was a trade ministerial post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1997 the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Nærings- og energidepartementet) was converted into Nærings- og handelsdepartementet, i.e. a Ministry for Economy and Trade. The commercial department of the Utenrik department was spun off again. The Foreign Ministry, however, retained overall responsibility for trade policy issues.
organization
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the largest in terms of personnel in Norway. It is divided into several departments: the secretariat for the foreign minister, the secretariat for the development minister, the central control unit, the press office, the department for Europe and trade, the department for security policy and the Nordic countries , the regional department with responsibility for the bilateral Relationships with countries in Africa , Asia , Latin America and the Middle East , the multilateral department, the development department, the legal department, the culture department, the resource department and the service department.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for the two development cooperation agencies, NORAD and Norec .
minister
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs currently has two ministerial posts, one for foreign policy and one for development policy. Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide took over the post of Foreign Minister from Børge Brende in October 2017 , and Dag Inge Ulstein took over the post of Development Minister from Nikolai Astrup in January 2019 .
Web links
- Utenriksdepartementet in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Utenriksdepartementet on the government website (Norwegian, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Lars Petter Berg: Utenriksdepartementet . In: Store norske leksikon . May 27, 2019 ( snl.no [accessed April 25, 2020]).
- ↑ Utenriksdepartementet: Avdelinger i Utenriksdepartementet. June 14, 2006, accessed April 25, 2020 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Utenriksdepartementet: Underliggende etater. October 11, 2006, accessed April 25, 2020 (Norwegian).
