Bjørn Skogmo
Bjørn Skogmo (born 12 December 1940) is a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Namsos, and is a cand.polit. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1969. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from 1994 to 2002, assisting permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2005 and Norwegian ambassador to France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ... from 2005 to 2009. References 1940 births Living people Norwegian civil servants Ambassadors of Norway to France People from Namsos Permanent Representatives of Norway to the United Nations {{Norway-diplomat-stub ...
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Namsos
( sma, Nåavmesjenjaelmie) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Some of the villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Klinga, Ramsvika, Skomsvoll, Spillum, Sævik, Dun, Salsnes, Nufsfjord, Lund, Namdalseid, Sjøåsen, Statland, Tøttdalen, and Sverkmoen. The municipality is the 30th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Namsos is the 80th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 15,001. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 2.1% over the previous 10-year period. General information Name The first part of the name comes from the local river Namsen. The last element is ''os'', which means the " mouth of a river". Coat of arms The coat of a