Mr Thorbjørn Jagland is the 13th Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The Secretary General has the overall responsibility for the strategic management of the Organisation. Mr Jagland was elected in September 2009.
The former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland, aged 62, was also the President of the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) and the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party. He is currently the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speeches 2010
Conference ''Prevention of terrorism: prevention tools, legal instruments and their implementation''
''Individual Human Rights and Universal Peace''
Boston, 18 November 2010
Ministerial Conference of the Pompidou Group to tackle drug policy challenges
Strasbourg, 4 November 2010
High level Meeting on Roma
Strasbourg, 20 October 2010
Session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
Strasbourg, 27 October 2010
Ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights
Strasbourg, 19 October 2010
Speech at the Permanent Council of the OSCE
Vienna, 1 July 2010
Speech at the ceremony in Srebrenica
Srebrenica, 11 July 2010
20th anniversary of the Venice Commission
Venice, 5 June 2010
83rd Plenary Session of the Venice Commission
Venice, 4 June 2010
EU Western Balkans Conference
Sarajevo, 2 June 2010
Summer University for Democracy: ''European Leadership in a Time of Crisis''
Strasbourg, 28 June 2010
Speech at the 120th Session of the Committee of Ministers
Strasbourg, 11 May 2010
Conference on Democracy and Decentralisation
Sankt-Gallen, 3 May 2010
Thorbjørn Jagland: Greater coherence, cohesion and consolidation through reform
Strasbourg, 27 April 2010
Conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights
Interlaken (Switzerland), 18 February 2010
Secretary General's official visit
Brussels, 16 February 2010
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Strasbourg, 27 January 2010
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