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Trygve Lie | Norwegian statesman and secretary-general of the ...  After the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, he was appointed foreign minister of ... Trygve Lie becoming the first secretary-general of the United Nations, 1946. ... Lie subsequently served as county governor (fylkesmann) of Oslo and Akershus (195563) ... Your changes will be lost unless select "Submit and Leave".
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Trygve Lie - Wikipedia  Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian Foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. .... He was the County Governor of Oslo and Akershus, Chairman of the Board...
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Cold War History - Wilson Center Digital Archive  He was educated at Oslo University where he obtained a law degree in 1919. ... Mr. Lie became a member of the Norwegian Labor Party Youth Organization in 1911. ... the Norwegian fleet for the Allies, after the German invasion in April 1940. ... leaving the United Nations: Governor of Oslo and Akershus, and Chairman of...
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Trygve Lie Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline  He went back to Norwegian politics after the end of his UN tenure. Childhood & Early ... He served as the County Governor of Oslo and Akershus. He also served...
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Trygve Lie Plaza Highlights : NYC Parks  A member of the Labor Party since he was a teenager, Lie quickly rose within the ... After leaving the United Nations, Trygve Lie served in a number of official and ... Governor of Oslo and Akershus and Chairman of Norway's Board of Energy.
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Kofi Annan - Wikipedia  Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan, along with the UN, were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace ... Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi in the Gold Coast (now...
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Oslo celebrating it's name change 11 July | Home and Away  Jul 11, 2012 ... Norway was for about 300 years under Danish Reign (1536-1814) ... however excavations has proven that a city structure existed prior to ... that the city was to change its name from January 1st of 1925. ... City areas that had been called Oslo formally were now renamed to the old city. ... ( Log Out / Change ).
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The secretaries general - The Secretary-General - system, future ...  The first secretary-general, Trygve Lie of Norway, was appointed for a ... At 23, became assistant to the secretary of the Norwegian Labor Party. ... After the German occupation of Norway in 1940 and until the liberation of Norway in 1945, he was, ... 1945. Headed the Norwegian delegation to the San Francisco Conference.
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Hammarskjold Greatly Extended U.N.'s Scope Through Leadership ...  Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold was a respected Swedish diplomat but little ... to succeed Trygve Lie of Norway, the United Nations' first Secretary General, ... In his years of service as Secretary General he scored a number of ... When word came of the prisoners' release, Mr. Hammarskjold was away on one of his...
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Dag Hammarskjld - Wikipedia  Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjld was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations, from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. ... During his term, Hammarskjld tried to smooth relations between Israel and the Arab states.
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Norwegian government-in-exile - Revolvy  Below are the four de facto Governments in Oslo during the war, either .... ships carrying the Norwegian government in exile back to Norway and served as a target ... From 1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations . .... From 1942 to 1945, during World War II, Hiorthy stayed in London where he...
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DAG HAMMARSKJLD: The UN years ...  In 1950, he became Chairman of the Swedish Delegation to UNISCAN, ... 1951-1952, and Acting Chairman of his country's delegation to the Seventh ... On 10 April 1953, he took the oath of office as Secretary-General of the United Nations for...
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MHS Collections Online: Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry ...  Seven weeks after he left the White House he was in the field in Kenya and within ... In African Game Trails, a compilation of articles he wrote during his trip, he gave ... of the lion and elephant hunting that he and his son, Kermit, had undertaken, ... had retired from the presidency of Harvard a month before Roosevelt left the...
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali Dies | KTLA  Feb 16, 2016 ... According to his official U.N. biography, Boutros-Ghali taught international relations and law at Cairo University from 1949 to 1977, during...
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Questions Nag in Sweden 30 Years After Leader's Assassination ...  Feb 26, 2016 ... Questions Nag in Sweden 30 Years After Leader's Assassination ... help younger readers understand the leader who put Sweden on the world map. ... his wife, Lisbet, walked home without bodyguards from a movie on a Friday night ... Late on the evening of Feb. 28, 1986, Mr. Palme was walking through...
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Gro Harlem Brundtland | prime minister of Norway | Britannica.com  Politician who served three terms as prime minister of Norway in the 1980s and '90s ... Gro Harlem Brundtland, (born April 20, 1939, Oslo, Norway) politician who .... 42nd president of the United States (19932001), who oversaw the country's ... Rachel Carson, whose names appear in textbooks and, from time to time, even.
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Gro Harlem Brundtland - Wikipedia  Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway (1981, 198689, and 199096) and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. ... Prime Minister of Norway[edit]. Brundtland became Norway's first female Prime Minister in 1981. She served...
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Trygve Lie - Wikipedia  Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian Foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. ... In local politics he served as a member of the executive committee of Aker...
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United Nations History/Kofi Annan - Wikibooks, open books for an ...  ... term as Secretary-General on January 1 1997. Annan replaced outgoing Secretary-General Boutros ... Annan's tenure as Secretary-General was ... since Annan's predecessor Boutros-Ghali was also an ... In April 2001, he issued a five-point "Call to...
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Dag Hammarskjld - - Biography.com  Swedish statesman Dag Hammarskjld served as secretary-general of the United Nations ... On April 7, 1953, he was appointed the third Secretary-General of the United Nations. ... served as chairman of the board of the Nobel Foundation, as prime minister of Sweden, ... In 1941 he was named head of the Bank of Sweden.
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Towards the Thaw: Seeking Clarity in China-Norway Relations | The ...  Jan 16, 2016 ... A portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is projected on the Grand Hotel Oslo. ... How can China and Norway move on from the political freeze sparked by dissident Liu Xiaobos Nobel Peace Prize? ... It has now been over five years since political relations between China and ...