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Norway's prime minister reshuffles cabinet with new immigration minister

Xinhua, December 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Wednesday reshuffled her cabinet by changing six ministers and creating a new post of minister for immigration and integration affairs.

Sylvi Listhaug, the current minister of agriculture and food, has been named minister of immigration and integration, in charge of the responsibility for immigration affairs in the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and social inclusion affairs in the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion.

According to a government statement, it is intended that during the first quarter of 2016, the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion will have its name changed to the Ministry of Children and Equality.

Meanwhile, Jon Georg Dale, state secretary at the Ministry of Finance, has been appointed minister of agriculture and food.

Vidar Helgesen, minister of EEA and EU affairs and chief of staff at the Office of the Prime Minister, has become minister of climate and environment, while Elisabeth Aspaker, minister of fisheries, has been named minister of EEA and EU affairs.

Members of Parliament Per Sandberg and Linda Cathrine Hofstad Helleland have been appointed minister of fisheries and minister of culture respectively. Anniken Hauglie, a former Oslo City commissioner, has been appointed minister of labour and social affairs.

At the same time, Minister of Culture Thorhild Widvey, Minister of Climate and Environment Tine Sundtoft and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Robert Eriksson "have been honourably discharged from their offices," the government statement said.

It is the first time Solberg reshuffled her cabinet since she formed her coalition government after her Conservative Party and the Progress Party won the national election in 2013. Enditem