Nato names Stoltenberg next head

Jens Stoltenberg finished his second term as PM a year ago

Norway's ex-PM Jens Stoltenberg has been named Nato's next secretary general, supplanting Denmark's Anders Fogh Rasmussen

He will assume control as pioneer of the 28-country military union in October, when Mr Rasmussen steps down after a Nato summit in Wales.

Mr Rasmussen has headed Nato for as long as five years.

Mr Stoltenberg was PM of Norway at the time of Anders Breivik's shell and weapon ambushes in 2011.

Breivik murdered 77 individuals when he focused on government structures in Oslo and youngsters and authorities at a young camp run by Mr Stoltenberg's Labor party.

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Meet Nato's new head

Jens Stoltenberg

 Aged 55

 Father was outside clergyman, mother was geneticist and legislator

 Economics degree from University of Oslo

 Worked in news-casting before legislative issues

 Married with two youngsters

 His last tweet was a selfie with Labor party associates

He served as the nation's head administrator twice, for year and a half in 2000-01 and again from 2005 to 2013.

Mr Rasmussen said on Twitter that Mr Stoltenberg was "the right man to expand on Nato's record of quality and triumph".

He included that the Ukraine emergency exhibited the need for Nato to show solid and decided authority.

Mr Rasmussen communicated concern on Friday about the "colossal military form up" by Russian compels on Ukraine's fringes.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron said Norway's ex-leader might "bring an abundance of experience to this part at the rudder of the transatlantic organization together and he will assume control throughout a vital year ever".

And in addition handling the emergency in Ukraine, Mr Cameron said he might lead the withdrawal of Nato-headed compels in Afghanistan at the end of the year.

In its proclamation, Nato said: "Mr Stoltenberg will expect his capacities as secretary general as from 1 October 2014, when Mr Fogh Rasmussen's term terminates following five years and two months at the rudder of the collusion."