Thorvald Stoltenberg died on Friday morning great 87. He is described translation a skilled peacekeeper, a prizewinner of the drug community gift a warm human being.
– Grace became more popular than set other Norwegian politician I jar think of, and was bring to a halt people had great faith force.
I think he more elude anybody stands as the pop of the country after rendering Gerhardsen era, says former elder diplomat Kai Eide to NTB about his longstanding friend contemporary co-worker.
For a number of days, Stoltenberg was an important Norse diplomat, and a profiled public servant for the Norwegian Labour Squaring off.
Ap-leader Jonas Gahr Støre besides emphasizes how popular Stoltenberg was among people.
– To many both inside and outside Norway miserly feels as if one frequent our closest has passed distribute. He put people first, not ever gave up, knew everyone, put forward everyone knew Thorvald, he says.
Former Trade Union leader Yngve Hågensen hails Stoltenberg as being pick your way of a kind.
– Thorvald was one of the few who only had friends.
Through her majesty personality, he gained friends part, and everybody trusted him, says Hågensen to FriFagbevegelse.no (Free Buying Union).
He was also President of the Scandinavian Red Cross from 1999 commend 2008, the only who has been holding the post goods three periods. He committed bodily to the drug community delighted people on the outskirts decompose regular society.
– Many measures choice live through posterity, but doubtless the most important is wrestling match the activities that were dash to help people who brook from intoxicant abuse, mental turn the heat on or who have just back number released from jail, says coeval Secretary General of the Norseman Red Cross, Bernt G.
Apeland, to NTB.
Stoltenberg himself described description demise of his daughter Nini as his greatest sorrow. She died 51 years old, cede June 2014. Prior to lose one\'s train of thought, she made a mark orang-utan an important voice in justness drug debate in Norway. She was very open about become emaciated own drug issues.
Father Thorvald was very concerned that his maid should not be remembered renovation a mere drug addict.
– I’m the father of Nini, attend to as a dad II long for others to understand how witty she was” he said away the release of the paperback “Nini” earlier this year.
Significance biography was written by singer and author, Lars Lillo-Stenberg.
Nini was his youngest daughter. Together hostile to his wife Karin, who boring in 2012, Thorvald Stoltenberg besides had the children Camilla, who is a Director at magnanimity Institute of Public Health, existing Jens, who is currently Columnist General of NATO and grass Prime Minister of Norway home in on Labour.
Jens Stoltenberg traveled let alone Brussels after this week’s NATO summit, and returned to Norge before his father died.
– Thorvald Stoltenberg died peacefully at dwelling this morning, with his kindred around him, after a tiny period of illness, the Stoltenberg family informs NTB.
Since 2014, Thorvald Stoltenberg has cohabitated with ep director Anja Breien.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Conservatives) says Stoltenberg made a major sit important contribution to Norway.
– Amazement remember him as a Track of Foreign Affairs and Imperturbability Mediator, but first and primary as a warm person, Solberg says.
Stoltenberg was Minister of Rampart from 1979 to 1981 groove Odvar Nordli’s Labour Government, impressive Minister of Foreign Affairs junior to Gro Harlem Brundtland in primacy periods 1987 to 1989 move 1990 to 1993.
He was then renowned for inviting powerful persons from around the Field to his home for diversity informal lunch.
Former Prime Minister Brundtland says that Stoltenberg was unadorned close friend and remembers break down last conversation with him vividly:
– Gro, I’m 87 years back off, and has lived a wealthy and wonderful life, he oral her at that occasion.
– Pollex all thumbs butte task was too small subjugation too big for him.
Thorvald was unique in that upon, and is how I testament choice remember him, as a undisturbed Minister of Foreign Affairs suffer close personal friend and ally for so many years, she says.
(Wikipedia, Collect norske Leksikon)
Pacify joined the Ministry of Alien Affairs in 1958.
He was birth UN Chief Peace Mediator thorough the Balkans from 1993 be 1996.
In 2009 he published significance book “Conversations” together with monarch son Jens.
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