Thorbjørn Jagland elected Secretary General

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The Parliamentary Assembly on 29 September elected Thorbjørn Jagland (Norway) Secretary General of the Organisation for a five-year term. In the first round of the election, Thorbjørn Jagland obtained 165 votes (an absolute majority) and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (Poland) 80 votes. There were 245 votes cast. Mr Jagland has been President of the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) since 2005 and Member of Parliament for Buskerud County since 1993. He was born on 5 November 1950 in Drammen, Norway. He is married to Hanne Grotjord. They have two children. Thorbjørn Jagland will be sworn in as Secretary General on 1 October 2009.

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  • Unfortunately he is equally inept at his own language. My condolences to anyone who has the unfortunate job of listening to his gibberish. The man is considered a joke in his own country. A bad one.

  • Dette er seriøst pinlig å høre på !

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  • keep on doin ur stuff :D

  • @Sunfl75 Vel Sunfl75, nå er ikke bertelable i Jagland sin posisjon på noen måte, og har derfor ikke behov for å kunne uttale seg på godt engelsk. Dessuten betyr "poor" i denne sammenhengen stakkars, ikke fattig. Tax free er et helt legitimt begrep å bruke når lønninger omtales. Så jeg foreslår at du legger fra deg idiotien og partiboka, eventuelt går et annet sted og kommenterer.

  • Unfortunately the only way to get rid of people like Jagland is to kick them upwards.

    Nothing against Obama, though.

  • Anyway... Jeg tror kanskje vi skal slutte å mobbe Mr. Hollywood, Petter Solberg, for engelsk-kunnskapene... Er det virkelig mulig? Jagland klarer faktisk å hoppe over ord i setningsbyggingen sin, så han ender med å si akkurat det motsatte av det han mener, også... Håper de med tolketjeneste i salen får riktig oversettelse på øret, i det minste...

  • @tidemannen I'm sorry, but the man is not considered a joke in Norway. I think you simply lack reasonable arguments to explain why you don't share his political view... Yes, he most certainly could benefit form a crash-course in English pronunciation, but the man still is a respected politician.

  • @bertelable Unnskyld, men har du sett på hvordan du ordlegger deg selv på engelsk? Det du skriver her går Jagland en høy gang... Og hvem ute i verden tar deg seriøst når du påstår at nordmenn er fattige...De "vet" jo at vi er av de rikeste folkene i verden... Lær deg det engelske språket selv, før du angriper andre. Skulle likt å hørt din uttale av det du tror betyr lønn uten skatt... Tax-free er en sone på internasjonale flyplasser, kjære deg...

  • This man is ex-premier minister of Norway and poor norwegian taxpayers finance his trips to give world-rocking speaches like this one!! He now resides in Strasbourg on a fat tax-free salary defending human rights on the continent, although he probably has enough with defending himself !! Soviet Union is long not dead.. Labour Party-book rules!

  • he's norwegian, not british. So i don't see the problem with his accent. Really though...!

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