Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence
The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway. It is responsible for policies relating foreign affairs, military, development cooperation, Svalbard or in other polar regions and matters in general relating to agreements between Norway and other states or organizations. It corresponds to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence. The committee has 16 members and is chaired by Ine Eriksen Søreide of the Conservative Party. The members also sit on the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs and the European Committee.
The committee is chaired by Ine Eriksen Søreide.
Image: SD meets with Norway’s Minister of Defence 170517 D SV709 158 (34721980225) (cropped)
Image: Norges kulturminister Anniken Huitfeldt under ett nordiskt kulturministermote vid Nordiska Radets session 2011 i Kopenhamn
Image: SD meets with Norway’s Minister of Defence 170517 D SV709 158 (34721980225) (cropped)
The Storting is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen multi-seat constituencies. A member of the Storting is known in Norwegian as a stortingsrepresentant, literally "Storting representative".
Storting
Lagting Hall, which also serves as the meeting room for the Christian Democratic Party's parliamentary group. The Lagting was discontinued in 2009.
Interpellation (spørretimen) being held inside the hemicycle of the building
An election booth at the event of municipal and county voting, 2007