Terje Rød-Larsen

Terje Rød -Larsen ( born November 22, 1947 in Bergen) is a Norwegian diplomat, politician ( Arbeiderpartiet ) and sociologist.

Rød -Larsen grew up in Bergen. He studied social sciences and earned a PhD in sociology. He taught at Norwegian universities until 1981, when he. FAFO in the establishment of a research facility, which is funded by the Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions

In 1989 Rød -Larsen moved to Cairo because his wife Mona Juul was transferred there because of their work for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. Rød -Larsen continued its work for FAFO, since the organization is internationally oriented in a greater extent during the 1980s. He created a sociological study on the living conditions in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. During this work Rød -Larsen made ​​contacts that proved helpful during the secret negotiations between Israel and the PLO. His wife was able to make contact with Foreign Minister Johan Jørgen Holst, leading to the achievement of the Oslo agreement in 1993. In the year Rød -Larsen was officially hired as special advisor for affairs of the Middle East at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Between 1994 and 1996 he served the former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali as " Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories ". In 1996, he was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Thorbjørn Jagland, but was then forced by a tax scandal to resign.

In 1999 he was appointed personal representative of the Secretary General Kofi Annan at the PLO and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He is also Special Coordinator of the UN for peace negotiations in the Middle East. He gave this post on to 2004 Chairman of the International Peace Academy in New York to get, but in 1559 the UN Security Council was also determined as UN Special Envoy for the implementation of the resolution, which Syria to withdraw from Lebanon and to disarm the Shiite Hezbollah prompts.

After the unanimous decision of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 of the UN Security Council, he had been appointed by Kofi Annan in August 2006 after Israel and Lebanon to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire in the Israel - Lebanon conflict in 2006.