(28 Mar 2014)
Norway's former premier to become new NATO chief
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FILE: Washington DC, USA - 20 Oct 2011
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1. Various of US President Barack Obama with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oval Office
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FILE: Oslo, Norway - 22 July 2012
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2. Stoltenberg leaving, holding rose
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FILE: Naypyitaw, Myanmar - 4 Nov 2012
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3. Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg leaving room after meeting
4. Mid of Suu Kyi and Stoltenberg standing before journalists
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FILE Kabul, Afghanistan - 9 Dec 2005
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5. Afghanistan President Hamed Karzai and Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg walking into the presidential palace
6 Afghanistan President Hamed Karzai and Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg shake hands
STORYLINE:
Former Norwegian Premier Jens Stoltenberg is to become the new secretary-general of the NATO military alliance, starting in October 2014.
The appointment, announced on March 28th 2014, comes at a critical time as the crisis over Ukraine has suddenly made the alliance a more relevant security force in Europe.
The current NATO chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is to step down after the alliance summit in Wales later in 2014.
A two-time Norwegian prime minister, Stoltenberg became a recognisable face on the international scene with his dignified response to the twin attacks that killed 77 people in his country in July 2011.
His coalition suffered a year later when an independent inquest into the bomb and gun attacks by right-wing fanatic Anders Breivik found a litany of failures by police and security services that might have disrupted or even prevented the massacre.
By September 2013, Stoltenberg's coalition government had been ousted by a combination of conservatives and populists as the Norway tilted right.
In the run-up to the vote, the prime minister donned a taxi driver's uniform and took passengers around the capital as part of an unusual election campaign stunt.
A video that his Labour Party posted on social media shows the candid camera-like moments when passengers realise the man behind the wheel is Stoltenberg.
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