Yes, minister. (Norway).Norway's minister of finance, Per-Kristian Foss Per-Kristian Foss (born July 19, 1950 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician (Conservatives), member of the Norwegian National Assembly since 1981, and former Minister of Finance 2001–2005. , married his longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective partner, Jan Erik Knarbakk, in early January, becoming the first member of the Norwegian Norwegian associated in some way with Norway. Norwegian buhund, Norwegian sheepdog a medium-sized (26-40 lb), spitz-type dog with a short, dense coat in wheaten, black, red or sable, sometimes with black markings on the face, ears government to enter into a binding same-sex partnership. Foss and Knarbakk got hitched in a ceremony at the Norwegian embassy in Stockholm but declined to make a public fuss over it. "Yes, we entered a partnership at the embassy in Stockholm on Friday, January 4," Foss told a Norwegian business newspaper. "But beyond that, it is a private matter." In 1993, Norway became the second country in the world, after Denmark, to allow same-sex partners same-sex partner Social medicine A domestic partner of the same genotypic sex. See Homosexual. to form civil unions, although the law does not allow them to adopt children or have their weddings performed in a church. |
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