Tag: diplomacy

State visit ended with diplomatic spat

A recent state visit to Norway ended on a sour note, when South Africa's foreign minister refused to submit to routine security controls at...

China allows ministerial meeting

Diplomatic relations between Norway and China, all but frozen since the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident, may...

Russia: US will send ships to Norway

A Russian diplomat has claimed that American authorities are hoping to place warships in Norwegian waters as part of the planned NATO missile defense...

Ambassador’s food blog boils over

Norway's ambassador to Afghanistan stirred up a storm of controversy this week when he wrote about his passion for good food and wine, and...

Bolivia, Morocco angry with Norway

Bolivian officials are furious after a young Norwegian woman, armed with a newly issued Norwegian passport in a new name, fled drug charges and...

Embattled UN boss lands in Oslo

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon landed in Norway Sunday night and charmed assembled reporters by speaking Norwegian, but he avoided all questions on the...

Obama picks his man for Oslo

US President Barack Obama has settled on a veteran Boston lawyer to be his new ambassador to Norway. Barry B White, not surprisingly, is...

Custody dispute sets off diplomatic incident

A custody dispute over two teenagers with dual Norwegian and Moroccan citizenship has turned into a diplomatic incident, involving charges of kidnapping and death...

Chechnyan peace talks in Oslo

Neither the Norwegian nor Russian governments are formally involved, but top representatives for the ruling Chechnyan government and its exiled opposition are in Oslo...
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