Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)


The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Det kongelige utenriksdepartement; Norwegian is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June 7, 1905, the same day the Parliament of Norway decided to dissolve the personal union with Sweden.
The ministry is headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs, currently Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, who is minister in the Solberg's Cabinet that has governed since 16 October 2013.
Between 1983 and October 2013, the ministry also had a Minister of International Development but this position was abolished by the Solberg's Cabinet and the foreign minister became the sole head of the ministry.

Organisation

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organised with 110 foreign missions and three subordinate organisations: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, FK Norway and the development country investment fund Norfund. The Ministry and foreign missions have a total staff of approx. 2,400.

The Political level

Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide
The top public servant is the Secretary General with an Assistant Secretary General as substitute.
The Ministry currently has eleven departments, each headed by a Director General :
In 2009, the ministry permitted the sale of military communications equipment to Libya, from a Norwegian company through General Dynamics.