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New Foreign Office emergency center |
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 The Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs is in the process of setting up a new emergency operations center. It will give assistance to Norwegian embassies when these are asked to help Norwegian citizens abroad.
- Every year, around 80,000 Norwegian citizens end up in trouble while travelling abroad, says Foreign Minister Jons Gahr Stoere to NRK. He points to the Norwegian journalist who was taken hostage in Afghanistan, and the two men under death sentence in Congo as only two cases which his department has handled this year, but ads that there are countless other cases. - Norwegians travel more, further, more daring and dangerous than before, Stoere says by way of explanation of the need for the emergency center. (NRK) Rolleiv Solholm |
