Besides being just a successful politician, Lie was also known as a Foreign Minister of Norway. At first Trygve was elected to the Norwegian Parliament and further this fact let him be appointed as the Minister of foreign relations in 1941.

In 1945, Lie was re-elected as a member of the Parliament and agreed to be a head of the delegation to the UN Conference.

A year after Lie was elected first Secretary General of the UN.

As a Secretary General, he tried to stop a lot of conflicts such as the Korean War or the Kashmir crisis.

Nevertheless, other politicians criticized Lie by for the lack of resolution, so he resigned his position in 1952.

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