Former Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, does not want to return to top politics in his home country after a decade as NATO Secretary-General.
The 65-year-old said at a news conference in Oslo on Friday that he would find ways to support his centre-left Labour Party as an ordinary member.
But he added: “I won’t be someone who comes home and starts having too many opinions about things I haven’t actually been involved with for 10 years – namely active Norwegian politics.”
He did not comment on other possible activities.
Stoltenberg was prime minister from 2000 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2013.
In 2011, he led his country through the difficult period following the attacks in Oslo’s government district and on the island of Utøya, in which right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed a total of 77 people.
Stoltenberg has been NATO Secretary-General since 2014.
He would hand over this post to the former prime minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, on October 1. (dpa/NAN).
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