- Knut Vollebæk
Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix =
name = Knut Vollebæk
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ambassador_from =Norway
country =United States
term_start =2001
term_end =2007
predecessor =
successor =Wegger Christian Strommen
order2 =
office2 =Minister of Foreign Affairs
term_start2 =October 17, 1997
term_end2 =March 3, 2000
deputy2 =
monarch2 =Harald V
primeminister2 =Kjell Magne Bondevik
succeeding2 =
predecessor2 =Bjørn Tore Godal
successor2 =Torbjørn Jagland
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order3 =
office3 =Chairman-in-Office of OSCE
term_start3 =1999
term_end3 =1999
deputy3 =
monarch3 =
primeminister3 =
succeeding3 =
predecessor3 =Bronisław Geremek
successor3 =Wolfgang Schüssel
constituency3 =
majority3 =
order4 =
ambassador_from4 =Norway
country4 =France
term_start4 =1997
term_end4 =1997
predecessor4 =
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order5 =
ambassador_from5 =Norway
country5 =Costa Rica
term_start5 =1991
term_end5 =1993
predecessor5 =
successor5 =
birth_date =Birth date and age|1946|02|11|mf=y
birth_place =Oslo , Norway
death_date =
death_place =
nationality =Norwegian
party =Christian Democratic Party
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residence =
alma_mater =Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
occupation =Ambassador
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footnotes =Knut Vollebæk (born
11 February ,1946 , inOslo ) is a Norwegian diplomat and centrist politician (Christian People's Party). He was theForeign minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000 and Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE in 1999. He was appointedambassador to theUnited States in 2001. His diplomatic experience includes assignments toNew Delhi ,Madrid , andHarare . He was Norwegian ambassador toCosta Rica in 1991-1993, and special envoy for development issues from 1994 until he became Foreign Minister in 1997. He served as a peace negotiator in theformer Yugoslavia 1993-1995. Vollebaek was appointed OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in 2007.External links
* [http://www.norway.org/Embassy/embassy.htm The Norwegian embassy in Washington, D.C.'s website]
* [http://www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/norway.html Washington Diplomat Bio]
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