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| Norway's ex-PM Jens Stoltenberg has been appointed Nato's next Secretary General, replacing Denmark's Anders Fogh Rasmussen | |
| He will take over as leader of the 28-nation military alliance in October, when Mr Rasmussen steps down after a Nato summit in Wales. | |
| Mr Rasmussen has headed Nato for the past five years. | |
| Mr Stoltenberg was prime minister of Norway at the time of Anders Breivik's bomb and gun attacks in 2011. | |
| Breivik killed 77 people when he targeted government buildings in Oslo and young people and officials at a youth camp run by Mr Stoltenberg's Labour party. | |
| He served as the country's prime minister twice, for 18 months in 2000-2001 and again from 2005 to 2013. | |
| 'Right man' | |
| The man he will be succeeding, Mr Rasmussen, said on Twitter that Mr Stoltenberg was "the right man to build on Nato's record of strength and success". | |
| He added that the Ukraine crisis demonstrated the need for Nato to show strong and determined leadership. | |
| Mr Rasmussen has expressed concern about the "huge military build-up" by Russian forces on Ukraine's borders. | |
| In announcing the succession, a statement from Nato said: "This afternoon, the North Atlantic Council decided to appoint Mr Jens Stoltenberg as secretary general of Nato and chairman of the North Atlantic Council, in succession to Anders Fogh Rasmussen. | |
| "Mr Stoltenberg will assume his functions as secretary general as from 1 October 2014, when Mr Fogh Rasmussen's term expires after five years and two months at the helm of the Alliance." |