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Norwegian diplomatic missions. This is a list of diplomatic missions of Norway, excluding honorary consulates. In countries without Norwegian representation, Norwegian citizens can seek assistance from public officials in the foreign services of any of the other Nordic countries, in accordance with the Helsinki Treaty. [1] [2]
The Norwegian mission to the EU is located in United states House in Rue Archimède 17, Brussels. Norway is not a member state of the European Union (EU). However, it is associated with the Union through its membership in the European Economic Area (EEA), signed in 1992 and established in 1994.
In 1999 Olav Akselsen was the Council of Europe Rapporteur on return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes in Croatia. [4] In 2013, related to promotion of inter-ethnic harmony in eastern Slavonia, Norwegian permanent mission to United Nations in Geneva expressed some concerned about the implementation of minority rights ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established on the same day that Norway declared the dissolution of the union with Sweden: June 7, 1905. Although diplomats could not present credentials to foreign governments until the Swedish king formally renounced his right to the Norwegian throne, a number of unofficial representatives worked on the provisional government's behalf until the first ...
The countries cooperate closely, and the Helsinki Treaty sets the framework for the Nordic cooperation in the Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers. According to the Helsinki Treaty, public officials in the foreign services of any of the Nordic countries are to assist citizens of another Nordic country if that country is not ...
Mission type City Photo Russia ... Barentsburg - Russia: Consulate-General: Kirkenes - Representative offices. European Union ... Visa requirements for Norwegian ...
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee participates in meetings in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe and the United Nations. In the recent years, it has also been occupied with promoting the use of international judicial institutions like the European Court of Human Rights and the International ...
The Council of Europe is an official United Nations observer. [8] Unlike the EU, the Council of Europe cannot make binding laws; however, the council has produced a number of international treaties, including the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR) of 1953.