Background
ELIASSEN, Kjell was born on August 18, 1929 in Mosjoen. Son of Carl August Eliassen and Bergljot Store.
ELIASSEN, Kjell was born on August 18, 1929 in Mosjoen. Son of Carl August Eliassen and Bergljot Store.
Oslo University.
Degree. He was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1953, and among others he worked as secretary (from 1958 to 1960) and councillor (from 1967 to 1970) at the Embassy of Norway in Moscow. Between 1970 and 1977 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs again, arbitrating with the Soviet Union, especially about the Barents Sea and Svalbard.
He later served as the Norwegian ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1977 to 1980, permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1980 to 1984, then as ambassador to the United States from 1984 to 1988, the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1994 and Germany from 1994 to 1998.
Married Vesla Skretting in 1953: one son one daughter.