Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was among NATO leaders who received an unusual gift last week from the president of the recent NATO summit’s host country Turkey. Recep Erdogan gave Støre and other leaders a revolver with their names engraved on it, plus ammunition for it, but most had to leave it behind in Ankara.
“It’s correct that a weapon was given (to the leaders of NATO countries) at the NATO summit in Ankara,” Anne Nordskog of the prime minister’s office in Oslo told news service NTB. She stressed, though, that there are “strict rules” for bringing weapons to Norway, and for carrying weapons onboard aircraft.
The revolver given to Støre was therefore given back to the Turkish foreign ministry in Ankara, Nordskog said. Other leaders of NATO nations also left their new revolvers at their respective embassies in Ankara, reported NTB, also because transport of weapons would violate laws in most of the countries whose leaders received one.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
