Background
He was born in Gjesdal as a son of farmer and petty officer Gabriel Aalgaard (1881–1973) and Berta Serine Egeland (1895–1983).
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Ole Algard
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Law School, University of Oslo, Norway, 4046. Spoken languages: Norwegian, English, German, French, Russian.
Career
Degree from the University of Oslo in 1946. He chaired Sosialistisk studentlag in 1946, and was hired as a secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the same year. He worked two years in Moscow before returning to Norway in 1950.
From 1951 to 1956 he was a legation secretary in Vienna, changing to chargé d"affaires as Norway got an embassy in the country.
He mainly worked in Norway from 1956 to 1961, as an embassy counsellor at the Norwegian United Nations embassy from 1961 to 1964, and as embassy counsellor in the Council of Europe from 1965 to 1967. He was Norway"s ambassador to the People"s Republic of China from 1967 to 1971 and to the United Nations from 1971 to 1982.
He was the President of the United Nations Security Council in April 1979 and June 1980. He was the ambassador to Denmark from 1982 to 1989.
He chaired the Norwegian Atlantic Committee.
He settled at his wife"s family farm in Våler, Østfold in 1989, where he died in January 1995.
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Married Rigmor Braathe.
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Norwegian