helland creating the potential to replace current chairman Thorbjorn Jagland.
Conservative Party and the Progress Party have a majority of the Nobel Committee of the year. It is appropriate to use this to choose Jagland says helland said.
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Government Party Conservative Party after the election victory last fall opportunity to elect two representatives to the committee, this is why Hell’s statements. The party has already former head Kaci Kullmann Five of the committee, but it is not clear whether one or two of the seats shall be filled by someone new.
– We will of course record of candidates, each of which is capable of could lead the Nobel committee, he said.
Jagland is the Labour Party candidate, but Jagland has not confirmed publicly that he poses.
Petersen takes over
One of those may be relevant to take over the leadership Jagland, the former foreign minister and former leaders of the Conservative Party, Jan Petersen.
Petersen has been the ambassador to Austria since 2009.
It can also be appropriate to provide foreign nationals place in committee. If the center of gravity remains Norwegian, there is nothing in Nobel’s will that prevent it.
Member of Parliament Linda helland (H), who is married to Trond helland, has previously noted Carl Bildt, outgoing Foreign Minister of Sweden. He belongs to the Moderate Party, the Conservative Party’s Swedish sister party.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the United States Hillary Clinton is also mentioned in the debate on committee composition.
Relations with China
Thorbjørn Jagland has defended Nobel Prize independence. If he discarded as chair of the committee, it can be seen as a reaction to the appointment of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo four years ago.
Price created as familiar an icy relations between China and Norway, and the replacement of Jagland can be considered as an attempt to appease the Chinese.
Jagland silent
Jagland will not comment on whether he wants to continue as Chairman of the Nobel Committee. Through the Secretariat Bjørn Berge at Jagland staff in the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg, get NTB reported that Jagland not want to go into this debate.
Neither Labor Helga Pedersen has nothing to add. She told NTB in May Jagland’s Labor candidate, assuming he even wants to continue in office.
– There remains unchanged. We will consult with our members on the committee before Parliament appoints the new, says Pedersen adviser Jon Reidar Archipelago.
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