Sten Fredrik Lundbo is a Norwegian diplomat and was Ambassador

Ambassador

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 to the Council of Europe

Council of Europe

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 in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

, France

France

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 1995 - 2000 and to the Republic of Poland 2000 - 2005.

Education

He graduated with a MA in international economics from the Norwegian School of Economics in 1967.

Career and assignments

Sten Fredrik Lundbo started working in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1967.
In addition to Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

 and Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, his diplomatic assignments include Bangkok

Bangkok

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, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and Geneva

Geneva

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.
Mr. Lundbo was Chairman of the Missile Technology Control Regime

Missile Technology Control Regime

The Missile Technology Control Regime is an informal and voluntary partnership between 34 countries to prevent the proliferation of missile and unmanned aerial vehicle technology capable of carrying a 500 kg payload at least 300 km....

 (MTCR) 1992 - 1993. With Mr. Lundbo as its Chairman, the MTCR decided at its annual meeting in Oslo in July 1992 to expand the scope to include nonproliferation of UAV’s for all weapon

Weapon

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s of mass destruction, making the payload/range threshold much less rigid than the original 500 kg/300 km.
See also article on MTCR. Mr. Lundbo chaired the negotiations on guidelines for the post CoCom

CoCom

CoCom is an acronym for Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls. CoCom was established by Western bloc powers in the first five years after the end of World War II, during the Cold War, to put an arms embargo on COMECON countries.CoCom ceased to function on March 31, 1994, and the...

 regime (the Wassenaar Arrangement

Wassenaar Arrangement

The Wassenaar Arrangement is a multilateral export control regime with 40 participating states including many former COMECON countries.It is the successor to the Cold war-era Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls , and was...

) 1993 - 1995.