I can understand that Muslims find the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Norwegian weekly... to be offensive. This is unfortunate and regrettable.
"Raymond Johansen" is a Norwegian politician and party secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party/Labour Party, following the footsteps of his uncle, Thorbjørn Berntsen, who is one of the veterans of the Norwegian Labour Party.
Originally a member of the Socialist Left Party (Norway)/Socialist Left Party, he chaired their youth wing Socialist Youth (Norway)/Socialist Youth from 1986 to 1988 and was a member of the central party board from 1986 to 1991. He chaired the local party chapter in Oslo from 1990 to 1991, and was city commissioner (byråd) of the environment and transport in the city government of Oslo from 1991 to 1995. He was not re-elected in 1995, and left the Socialist Left Party.
He then worked in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation from 1996 to 2000 and was secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council from 2002 to 2005. In 2002 he briefly worked at the Norwegian embassy in Asmara. During the first cabinet Stoltenberg/first and second cabinet Stoltenberg he was State Secretary (Norway)/State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On 18 March 2007, Johansen met with members of the newly elected Hamas unity government and announced that Norway will resume economic aid. He also expressed hope that other European states will follow their lead.
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