FACTBOX: Five facts about Kai Eide, new U.N. Afghan envoy

(Reuters) - Following are key facts about Kai Eide, the Norwegian diplomat chosen on Thursday to be the new United Nations envoy to Afghanistan.

-- Eide, 59, is a career diplomat who has had long stints on NATO, where he served as Norway's permanent representative from 2002 to 2006.

-- Eide also worked with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a group which helped nation-building and democracy in post-communist Eastern Europe, including as chairman of the OSCE permanent council in 1999.

-- He also served in various positions at the United Nations, primarily in the Balkans. His most recent U.N. experience was special envoy of the Secretary-General to Kosovo. Earlier, he was a special representative of the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

-- He served on the so-called Mitchell Commission, helping write the Mitchell Report about the Palestinian uprising which broke out in 2000.

-- Eide also advised the chief executive of Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro while not in the foreign service. Most recently, Eide was political director at Norway's foreign ministry, advising Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere.

(Reporting by Wojciech Moskwa; Editing by Dominic Evans)