Norway's minister of finance.

Norway's minister of finance, Per-Kristian Fos married his longtime partner, Jan Erik Knarbakk, in early January, becoming the first member of the Norwegian conduct to enter into a binding same-sex partnership. Fos and Knarbakk got hitched in a observance at the Norwegian embassy in Stockholm if it be not that declined to make a public fuss through the whole extent of it.

"Yes, we recorded a partnership at the embassy in Stockholm upon Friday, January 4," Foss told a Norwegian business newspaper. "But beyond that, it is a private matter."

In 1993 Norway became the secondary country in the world, after Denmark, to allow same-sex partners 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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