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| 94.1 | New government to form | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Sun May 04 1986 19:22 | 43 |
| Associated Press Fri 02-MAY-1986 16:04 Norway Crisis
Opposition Leader Agrees To Form New Government
By ERIK A. WOLD
Associated Press Writer
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Opposition Labor Party leader Gro Harlem Brundtland
agreed Friday to form a new minority government after conservative
Prime Minister Kaare Willoch resigned. Willoch, who handed his
resignation to King Olaf V on Friday after losing a parliamentary vote
of confidence, will head a caretaker goverment while Mrs. Harlem
Bruntland organizes her administration.
Willoch had urged the king to ask Mrs. Harlem Brundtland to form the
new government, but she had been reluctant because the socialist
alliance she heads holds only 77 seats in Parliament, two short of a
majority. Mrs. Harlem Brundtland, 47, agreed to form a new government
after meeting twice with the king, who also discussed the situation
with parliamentary leaders and the heads of Norway's six political
parties.
Willoch on Wednesday had demanded a vote of confidence in the 157-seat
Storting, Norway's parliament, after legislators were deadlocked in a
debate over government austerity proposals aimed at counteracting
dropping oil revenues. Willoch lost 78-79. It was the first time in 23
years that a Norwegian government was toppled by losing a vote of
confidence.
In Norway, the Parliament cannot be dissolved before regularly
scheduled elections. The last elections were held in September and the
next ones are scheduled for 1989.
Willoch's coalition controls 78 votes in Parliament, one more than Mrs.
Harlem Brundtland's socialist alliance. The remaining two seats are
held by the small anti-tax Progress Party. Though conservative, it is
not part of Willoch's coalition and voted against him this week.
Legislators are required to cast their votes, making it impossible to
adjust the political balance through abstentions.
Mrs. Harlem Brundtland was toppled as prime minister by Willoch in the
1981 elections. Willoch, 57, has been the country's longest-serving
conservative prime minister.
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| 94.2 | New government | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Fri May 09 1986 12:33 | 72 |
| Associated Press Thu 08-MAY-1986 20:13 Norway-Government
New Government to Include 7 Women Ministers
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland is expected to
appoint a record seven women as ministers Friday in Norway's new
coalition government. Ten of the 18 ministers will belong to the
Norwegian parliament, the Storting, according to a list reported
Thursday by the news agency NTB.
Mrs. Brundtland's government takes over from the Conservative-led
coalition headed by former Prime Minister Kaare Willoch. Willoch and
his government resigned May 2 after losing a vote of confidence over
its inability to pass austerity proposals aimed at coping with tax
revenue lost because of the drop in oil prices. Norway is one of the
world's largest independent oil producers.
If seven women members of the new Labor government are appointed it
would be the most of any Norwegian government. The Willoch government
had four women ministers.
The news agency said the most experienced member of the new government
appeared likely to be former Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund, 59, who
held that position for eight years in other Labor governments. It
listed Johan Joergen Holst, a former deputy defense minister, as the
new defense minister. The two key appointments are not expected to
produce any major change in the foreign and military affairs of Norway,
which is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Mrs. Brundtland, 47, headed an eight-month Labor government in 1981. It
appeared she picked only three people who were ministers then to be
part of the new government. In addition to Frydenlund, Finn Kristensen,
49, was expected to return as minister of industry and Sissel Roenbeck,
36, a former minister of consumer affairs, is expected to become
minister of environmental affairs.
Willoch's coalition continues to control 78 seats in the 157-seat
Storting, one short of a majority but two more than Mrs. Brundtland's
socialist alliance. Two seats are held by the small anti-tax Progress
Party, which torpedoed Willoch's government when it refused to support
a new tax on gasoline. The distribution of Storting seats cannot be
changed before Norway's next national elections in 1989.
According to the news agency, additional cabinet members expected to be
installed Friday include:
Gunnar Berge, Minister of Finance
Helen Boesterud, Minister of Justice
Anne-Lise Bakken, Minister of Consumer Affairs and Public
Administration
Halvard Bakke, Minister of Culture and Science
Arne Oeien, Minister of Oil and Energy
Kjell Borgen, Minister of Communications
Leif Haraldseth, Minister of Rural and Labor Affairs
Tove Strand Gerhardsen, Minister of Social Affairs
Bjarne Moerk Eidem, Minister of Fisheries
Kirsti Kolle Groendahl, Minister of Church and Education Affairs
Gunhild Oeygarden, Minister of Agricultural Afffairs
Vesla Vetlesen, Minister of Foreign Aid
Knut Mosbakk, Minister of Trade
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| 94.3 | Strange Coincidences. | AQUA::FOSSUM | | Tue Nov 25 1986 15:51 | 11 |
| I just started reading this notes file, and was surprised to read
that no Norwegian government had ever lost a confidence vote. Someone
corrected that statement in a previous reply. It has happened at
least twice, the last time in 1963, when the Labor government was
forced to resign over an accident in a state-owned coal mine in
Spitsbergen. Before that, there had been no change in government
or prime minister since World War 2. It was especially memorable
since it coincided with Norway beating Sweden in soccer, which is
equally rare.
Tryggve Fossum
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| 94.4 | TASS reports on Prime Minister's state address | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Mon Jan 05 1987 12:44 | 13 |
| Gro Harlem Brundland -- Address to the Nation
Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundland underlined the need
for making a broader use in the disarmament issues of the opportunities
opened up by the Soviet-U.S. summit meeting in Reykjavik.
In her traditional New Year address to the nation on Norwegian
television she expressed concern over the open-ended arms race and
indicated to the danger of this process to the whole of mankind.
The Prime Minister admitted that Norway was now plagued with a serious
financial and economic crisis and noted that such problems as
unemployment, crime, and drug addiction had grown in Norway.
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| 94.5 | Syse financial irregularities | CHARLT::SAVAGE | | Fri Sep 21 1990 16:09 | 49 |
| From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.gov.corrupt
Subject: Norwegian premier in accounting controversy
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government,
government corruption
Date: 18 Sep 90 10:19:44 GMT
Location: norway
ACategory: international
Slugword: norway
OSLO, Norway (UPI) -- Prime Minister Jan Syse is under fire
following allegations of irregularities in his personal financial
dealings. But Syse, who admitted the irregularities and attributed
them to pressure from work, told Norwegian newspapers he would not
resign as head of a three-party, center-right coalition led by his
Conservative party.
The controversy surrounding Syse emerged last week when Norwegian
tabloid Verdens Gang revealed that a joint-stock company owned by Syse
had neglected to file formal records of its annual general meeting.
Last weekend, another of Syse's companies was also found to have
neglected to file records and it was alleged that company audits had
been signed by Syse's lawyer, who was neither trained nor authorized to
act as auditor. But after a full apology by the premier, who said
pressure of work had prevented him from keeping full overseeing control
of his companies, opposition politicians said they were prepared to let
the issue lie.
Syse also said he was relinquishing control of all of his private
companies. "We see no reason to pursue this matter any further," Labor
Party Deputy Leader Gunnar Berge said Saturday.
Sunday evening, however, Norwegian Television alleged Syse had
borrowed $10,000 and allowed his brother-in-law to borrow $16,500 from
one of the companies. Although the loans were not large, and were
repaid three months later, they appeared in violation of a Norwegian
law that prevents companies that owe more than they have in formal
assets from lending money.
Late Monday, Syse announced he had ordered a full audit and
scrutiny of his private financial affairs and declined further comment.
"We hope the investigation will be finished this week," said
Conservative Party General Secretary Svein Groenern.
Prior to leaving Norway for India, Labor Party leader Gro Harlem
Brundtland said her party was "unhappy" with the situation and would
await the results of the ongoing investigation before deciding whether
to take parliamentary action.
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| 94.6 | Prize for Brundtland | NEILS::SAVAGE | | Tue Oct 16 1990 10:19 | 9 |
| From: [email protected] (Yashodhara P. Pawar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: AWARD FOR BRUNDTLAND
Date: 15 Oct 90 22:33:32 GMT
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Gro Harlem Brundtland has been awarded the Indira Gandhi prize for
peace and development.It is in token of efforts made by her to improve
the life conditionsof people.
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| 94.7 | Syse expected to resign | NEILS::SAVAGE | | Mon Oct 29 1990 12:10 | 54 |
| From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.politics.people,clari.news.economy
Subject: Norwegian coalition expected to resign
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government,
political personalities, politics, non-usa economies, economy
Date: 29 Oct 90 08:47:04 GMT
Location: norway, western europe
ACategory: international
Slugword: norway-govt
OSLO, Norway (UPI) -- Norway's three-party non-socialist government
was expected to resign Monday because of internal differences over the
country's relationship with the European Community. Conservative Party
Prime Minister Jan P. Syse was expected to announce the resignation in
parliament Monday after emergency weekend cabinet meetings failed to
solve differences between the ruling Conservative, Center and Christian
Democrat parties.
If, as expected, Syse resigns the current administration Monday, he
is likely to attempt to remain in government at the head of a minority,
single-party, Conservative government. Another alternative was a
Labor Party minority governmment headed by former premier Gro Harlem
Brundtland.
The current Norwegian government crisis came after the junior
coalition anti-EC Center Party refused to countenance legislation to
repeal Norwegian laws limiting foreign investment. The so-called
concession laws date back to the last century and were imposed to
prevent foreign companies and individuals owning too much of Norwegian
society. But in ongoing negotiations with the EC on closer economic
and political ties, and even Norway's eventual membership of the
Community, EC negotiators have made it clear that such laws will have
to be repealed.
The Center Party, historically firm opponents of Norwegian
membership of the EC, has maintained it will not tolerate such a move
and will resign from government if moves to repeal the laws were made.
The second coalition partner, the Christian Democrats, have vowed not
to stay in government without the Center party.
Norway turned down EC membership in a 1972 referendum following a
bitterly-fought campaign in which the Center party played a prominent
role as an anti-EC party.
Conservative Party negotiators, beset by internal problems
including a row over prime minister Jan P. Syse's personal finances,
the resignation of the Conservative mayor of Oslo, and bad opinion poll
figures have been unable to force their smaller partners' hand.
Latest opinion polls have shown Syse's current three government parties
trailing far behind Labor in popular support, giving the administration
only 29.6 percent of the popular vote while Labor polled 42.1 percent.
The Socialist Left party, a traditional Labor support party, was given
13 percent in the poll.
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| 94.8 | Brundtland set to regain power | ALFIE::SAVAGE | | Tue Oct 30 1990 08:26 | 83 |
| From: [email protected] (TROND BORRHAUG HANSEN)
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.politics.people,clari.news.economy
Subject: Norwegian coalition resigns
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government,
political personalities, politics, non-usa economies, economy
Date: 29 Oct 90 20:25:21 GMT
Location: norway, western europe
ACategory: international
Slugword: norway-govt
OSLO, Norway (UPI) --The Labor Party and its leader, Gro Harlem
Brundtland, seemed set to regain power in Norway Monday following the
resignation of a three-party, non-socialist administration.
Conservative caretaker Prime Minister Jan P. Syse, who earlier in the
day resigned because of internal differences over the country's
relationship with the European Community, conceded Monday night he
would not be able to form a new government.
Syse's announcement came after the Center Party, his former junior
coalition partner, said it would not support Syse's Conservatives
because differences between the parties on EC issues were too basic.
"Our differences are so fundamental on the issue of the EC that we
cannot support the formation of a minority Conservative government,"
said Center Party spokeswoman Anne Enger Lahnstein. "I find it highly
regrettable for the country, but such a clear statement must be taken
into account," said Syse, whose coalition governed Norway for little
more than a year.
Under the Norwegian constitution, mid-term elections may not be
held. The next regular elections in Norway are set for 1993. The
current Norwegian government crisis came after the junior coalition
anti-EC Center Party refused to countenance legislation changes to
repeal Norwegian laws limiting foreign investment in Norway.
The crisis deepened last week when the Social Democratic government
in neighboring Sweden, Norway's main trading partner, said it favored
EC membership for the country.
Norway's so-called "concession laws" date back to the last century
and were imposed to prevent foreign companies and individuals owning
too much of Norwegian society. But in ongoing negotiations with the EC
on closer economic and political ties, and even Norway's eventual
membership of the Community, EC negotiators have made it clear that
such laws will have to be repealed.
The Center Party, historically a firm opponent of Norwegian
membership of the EC, has maintained it would not tolerate such a move
and would resign from government if moves to repeal the laws were made.
The second coalition partner, the Christian Democrats, vowed not to
stay in government without the Center Party.
Norway turned down EC membership in a 1972 referendum following a
bitterly-fought campaign in which the Center Party played a prominent
role as an anti-EC party. Conservative Party negotiators, beset by
internal problems including a row over Syse's personal finances, the
resignation of the Conservative mayor of Oslo, and poor opinion poll
figures have been unable to force their smaller partners' hand.
The latest opinion polls have shown Syse's current three government
parties trailing far behind Labor in popular support, giving the
administration only 29,6 per cent of the popular vote while Labor
polled 42,1 per cent. The Socialist Left party, a traditional Labor
support party, was given 13 per cent in the poll.
Brundtland, 51, was tight-lipped Monday night on her reaction to
Syse's concession of defeat, but Labor Party sources said she would
have a cabinet list ready by late Tuesday or Wednesday. If formed, a
new Labor administration would be Brundtland's third administration.
She became Norway's first woman prime minister in 1981, but lost
office after a few months following a non-socialist election victory
the same year. She then held office from 1986 until September 1989,
when she was ousted by a non-socialist alliance led by Syse.
Brundtland, perhaps Norway's best-known politician internationally,
headed the United Nations Commission on Development and the
Environment, and was the guiding hand behind the commision's report -
"Only One World" - commonly known as The Brundtland Report.
Following that report and because of her wide-ranging international
experience, she has frequently been suggested as a possible candidate
for the United Nation's first woman secretary general.
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| 94.9 | Unsure who will form new government | NEILS::SAVAGE | | Thu Nov 01 1990 08:56 | 39 |
| From: [email protected] (TROND BORRHAUG HANSEN)
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.politics.people,clari.news.economy,clari.news.top.world
Subject: Norwegian coalition resigns
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government,
political personalities, politics, non-usa economies, economy
Date: 30 Oct 90 05:24:44 GMT
ACategory: international
Slugword: norway
OSLO, Norway (UPI) -- The Labor Party was poised to regain power in
the vacuum left by the resignation of the Conservative-led coalition
government over internal differences involving Norway's relationship
with the European Community.
Conservative caretaker Prime Minister Jan P. Syse conceded Monday
night he would not be able to form a new government. His junior
coalition partner, the Center Party, said it would not support Syse's
Conservatives because of differences over the EC issues.
"Our differences are so fundamental on the issue of the EC that we
cannot support the formation of a minority Conservative government,"
said Center Party spokeswoman Anne Enger Lahnstein. Syse, whose
three-party coalition governed Norway for little more than a year,
said, "I find it highly regrettable for the country, but such a clear
statement must be taken into account."
The moves Monday appeared to position the Labor Party, led by
former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, to regain power if
Brundtland was asked to form a new government.
The current crisis came after the Center Party refused to support
legislative changes to repeal Norwegian laws limiting foreign
investment in Norway.
Commenting on the resignation, Brundtland said it remained unclear
whether she would take up the premiership again. "We have at present
no idea who will form the next government. This all depends on parties
other than ours," said Brundtland.
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| 94.10 | Skiing injury | TLE::SAVAGE | | Thu Jan 09 1992 10:20 | 16 |
| From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.politics.people
Subject: Norwegian prime minister injured skiing
Date: 8 Jan 92 21:35:27 GMT
OSLO, Norway (UPI) -- Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland suffered
concussion and broke the small bone at the base of her spine in a fall
while cross-country skiing during the Christmas holidays, her office
said Wednesday.
The prime minister's spokesman said Brundtland, 52, a physician, was
continuing her official duties despite suffering from frequent headaches
and pain.
The spokesman issued no details except to say the injury was minor
"but painful."
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| 94.11 | To help Brazilian urban street children | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Mar 17 1992 11:21 | 26 |
| From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.children
Subject: Norway to aid Brazilian street children
Date: 16 Mar 92 22:17:39 GMT
BRASILIA (UPI) -- Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland on
Monday offered to finance programs aimed at halting mass murders of
Brazilian urban street children and protecting the environment.
Brundtland, currently on a four-day visit to Brazil, met with
President Fernando Collor de Mello for more than an hour in the Planalto
Palace, the Brazilian executive headquarters.
Foreign Minister Francisco Rezek told reporters after the meeting
that the Norwegian aid was ``welcome, in spite of the fact that the
financial question is not the principal reason for the violence''
against street children.
At least 400 children living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro are
gunned down each year by so-called ``death squads'' allegedly financed
by private businessmen determined to ``clean the streets.''
Brundtland, known internationally for her efforts to protect the
environment, told Collor that her government also planned to contribute
an undisclosed amount of money to Brazilian ecological protection
programs, Rezek said.
Norway annually invests 1.15 percent of its gross national product in
pro-environmental projects around the world.
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| 94.12 | Brundtland urges environmental commitment | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Jun 05 1992 15:58 | 51 |
| From: [email protected] (BARBARA OLIVER)
Newsgroups: clari.news.europe
Subject: Industrial nations must pay for cleanup, prime minister says
Date: 5 Jun 92 01:15:26 GMT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) -- Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem
Brundtland, who delivered the opening address to the Earth Summit in
Brazil, said Thursday industrialized nations must foot the bill for
cleaning up the world's environment.
Speaking at Harvard University's 341st commencement one day after her
speech to the Rio conference, Brundtland said the overexploitation of
natural resources and the unequal distribution of wealth have brought
"humanity to the brink of disaster."
"What should be our global village is threatening to turn into a
global jungle," she said. "We need to replace international anarchy by
international governance."
Brundtland, who is head of the World Commission on Environment and
Development, urged Western leaders, particularly President Bush, to make
a greater commitment to protecting the environment.
"Thanks to U.S. leadership and the United Nations, we said
effectively 'No' to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait," Brundtland told her
audience of 350 Harvard students and alumni. "In a similar manner, we
must say effectively, 'No', and deploy the resources needed to repel the
much more serious threat of global environmental and social collapse.
"Leadership will have to come from the North," she said.
Brundtland also called for universal access to family planning and
took a veiled swipe at the Vatican for opposing birth control programs
to slow the world's burgeoning population.
She said the Third World currently makes "only a minimal claim to
our natural resources," but said overpopulation and pressures for
development in poorer nations threaten to accelerate the world's
environmental crisis.
"Unless we assist developing countries in by-passing the most
polluting stages of development and in developing the potential of their
people, we ourselves may be the victims," warned Brundtland, a 1965
graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health.
The first woman prime minister in Norway's history, Brundtland said
she was "stunned" at the failure of the Earth Summit delegates to come
up with "workable solutions on how to curb population growth" and
implied the Catholic Church was at least partly to blame.
Without mentioning the Vatican by name, Brundtland said, "States
which do not have a population problem -- in one particular case, even no
births at all -- are doing their utmost to prevent the world from making
sensible decisions regarding family planning."
In her keynote address to the conference Wednesday, Brundtland said
poverty, the environment and population could no longer be dealt with as
separate issues in the formation of policies.
She urged the so-called peace dividend from the end of the Cold War
be used "to finance today's most urgent form of collective security --
environmental security."
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| 94.13 | Brundtland to resign | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Nov 09 1992 13:59 | 41 |
| From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,clari.news.politics
Subject: Norwegian Prime Minister resigns as Labor Party chief
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 5:00:29 PST
OSLO, Norway (UPI) -- Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland
announced her resignation as leader of the Norwegian Labor Party.
A visibly moved Brundtland, 53, announced her surprise decision at
the Labor Party annual congress in Oslo Friday night, citing personal
reasons for her resignation.
"I have arrived at a situation where it is necessary for me to ask
for replacement," said Brundtland, whose son died last month. No
official reason was published for his death.
"Everybody here knows of the tragedy which hit my family a few weeks
ago," Brundtland said as she fought to hold back tears. "In this
situation it is difficult for me to give the job of party leader the
time required. I must reserve a little more of my time to spend with my
closest family."
She told the shocked assembly she had chosen to keep her decision
secret until the congress was well under way in order "not to derail
the debate."
The conference is to attack the thorny and divisive issue of whether
Norway will apply for membership of the European Community. More than 54
percent of the Norwegian electorate is against Norwegian EC membership.
"It is important that this meeting could be prepared without the
strong personality focus which the election of a new party leader would
have caused," she said.
"Therefore nobody knew of my decision until a few hours ago and it
was a decision I took in isolation," Brundtland said.
It was unclear whether, or for how long, Brundtland intended to
remain as prime minister. In the Nordic political tradition, it is
highly unusual that a single party government is headed by any other
than the leader of the party.
Brundtland's decision comes at a time not only of personal tragedy in
her family, but also of crisis for the Labor Party. Latest polls show
Labor Party support down to 24 percent from 34.3 percent in 1989
elections. The figure is the lowest showing for the Labor Party for
decades.
Brundtland, a medical doctor by profession, has been head of the
Norwegian Labor Party since 1981. For four years prior to that she was
deputy leader of the party.
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| 94.14 | Resigned again | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Oct 23 1996 12:52 | 12 |
| 94.15 | Cheif of surveilance police resigns | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Dec 17 1996 10:46 | 76
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