Ivar Lunde was a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Pavlovsk

Pavlovsk

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, but took the examen artium

Examen artium

Examen artium was the name of the academic certification conferred in Denmark and Norway, qualifying the student for admission to university studies. Examen artium was originally introduced as the entrance exam of the University of Copenhagen in 1630...

 in 1927 and the cand.jur. degree in 1932. He started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1933, and was stationed in Paris

Paris

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, Moscow

Moscow

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, Teheran, Ankara

Ankara

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 and Lisbon

Lisbon

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. From 1946 to 1949 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before spending three years as a counsellor at the Norwegian United Nations

United Nations

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 embassy, legation counsellor and chargé d'affaires

Chargé d'affaires

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 in Athens

Athens

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 and Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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. He was stationed in Athens; a separate station in Tel Aviv was not opened until 1958.

He was then the Norwegian envoy to Thailand

Thailand

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 from 1952, then ambassador to Turkey

Turkey

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 from 1956. As such he also acted as the ambassador to Iraq

Iraq

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, Iran

Iran

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 and West Pakistan

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. He was the ambassador to Finland

Finland

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 from 1962, to the Soviet Union

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 (and Mongolia

Mongolia

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) from 1966 and to Austria

Austria

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 from 1970 to 1977. Here he was also the Norwegian permanent delegate to IAEA, UNIDO and MBFR.

After 1977 he was a special adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the same time he worked as a lawyer for refugees in Norway, and took up translation. He was an authorized translator from the Polish language

Polish language

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 since 1978, and translated Czesław Miłosz among others. He died in 1992.