One of the other rescuers, American journalist Barry Farber described witnessing the incident in December 2006 on the Norwegian talk-show Først & sist.

As such, he acted as head of the UN mission in the former Yugoslavia and served as the first point of contact for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York.

Stoltenberg stayed on as co-chair of the peace negotiations in Geneva on behalf of the UN, and on 1 January 1994 the Japanese diplomat Y. Akashi was appointed SRSG responsible for all UNPROFOR operations in the former Yugoslavia.

The question of heroin prescription was one of the most controversial topics evaluated by the commission set up by Bjarne Håkon Hanssen.

The commission concluded in June 2010 that Norway should start trials with heroin prescription, in addition to making several other changes to its drug policy.

His co-signatories included Javier Solana, Felipe González, Romano Prodi, Lionel Jospin and Mary Robinson.

Their son, Jens Stoltenberg (born 1959), followed him into politics and served as Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2013, and as NATO Secretary-General from 2014 to 2024.