Niels Helveg Petersen
Niels Lolk Helveg Petersen (; informally Niels Helveg; 17 January 1939 - 3 June 2017) was a Danish politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 2000, having held the role of Minister for Economic Affairs between 1988 and 1990. He was a Member of Parliament (Folketinget) for the Danish Social Liberal Party from 1966 to 1974,1977 to 1993, and again from 1994 to 2011.
Petersen died on 3 June 2017 from esophageal cancer in Copenhagen, Denmark at the age of 78.
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Other websites
CV from Folketinget
Personal webpage from the official website of the Danish Social Liberal Party
1939 births
2017 deaths
Danish politicians