Somalia: New Norway Ambassador appointed
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- Posted On 18-03-2015, 12:14PM
MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 18, 2015 (Garowe Online)-Amidst improving diplomatic presence in volatile Mogadishu, Norway has appointed a new ambassador to Somalia for the first time in 25 years, Garowe Online reports.
Ambassador Victor Conrad Ronneberg who is now based in neighboring Kenya as Norwegian envoy presented his accreditation letters to Somalia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Khalid Omar Ali on Wednesday.
Ronnerberg made similar move on September 9, 2014 when he was received by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House.
The new ambassador passed on a greeting from Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Borge Brende to Ali during a meeting at international affairs and Investment Promotion ministry headquarters in Mogadishu.
Norway is a part of European donors backing Somalia’s timetable towards election by 2016.
The announcement follows appointments made by UK and the US which assigned female ambassadors to their embassies in Mogadishu.
Obama administration officially recognized Somalia’s UN-backed weak central government in January 2013.
GAROWE ONLINE
