Press Release

19 December 1997

The Government

In a session of the Council of State today, the King has decided that as of 1 January 1998 a new Ministry of Labour and Government Administration will replace the Ministry of Planning and Coordination, while a new Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development will replace the Ministry of Local Government and Labour. From the same day the Government list will thus be as follows (Chr. – the Christian Democratic Party , Cent. - the Centre Party and Lib. - the Liberal Party):

 

Prime Minister:
Mr. Kjell Magne Bondevik (Chr.)

Minister of Culture, and deputy for the Prime Minister:
Ms. Anne Enger Lahnstein (Cent.)

Minister of Children and Family Affairs:
Ms. Valgerd Svarstad Haugland (Chr.)

Minister of Trade and Industry:
Mr. Lars Sponheim (Lib.)

Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Mr. Knut Vollebæk (Chr.)

Minister of Fisheries:
Mr. Peter Angelsen (Cent.)

Minister of Finance:
Mr. Gudmund Restad (Cent.)

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development :
Ms. Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad (Cent.)

Minister of Agriculture:
Mr. Kåre Gjønnes (Chr.)

Minister of Justice and the Police:
Ms. Aud Inger Aure (Chr.)

Minister of Labour and Government Administration:
Ms. Eldbjørg Løwer (Lib.)

Minister of Transport and Communications:
Mr. Odd Einar Dørum (Lib.)

Minister of Education, Research and Church Affairs:
Mr. Jon Lilletun (Chr.)

Minister of Defence:
Mr. Dag Jostein Fjærvoll (Chr.)

Minister of Social Affairs:
Ms. Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (Cent.)

Minister of Health:
Mr. Dagfinn Høybråten (Chr.)

Minister of Oil and Energy:
Ms. Marit Arnstad (Cent.)

Minister of International Development and Human Rights,
foreign minister’s deputy:
Ms. Hilde Frafjord Johnson (Chr.)

Minister of the Environment:
Ms. Guro Fjellanger (Lib.)

Minister for Nordic Cooperation:
Ms. Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad (Cent.)

 

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