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India’s external affairs minister Natwar Singh plans to visit oil rich Norway
UN Security Council Membership endorsement and energy need will dominate Natwar Singh’s visit to Norway. According to media reports, Indian External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh will pay a two-day official visit to Norway from June 16 to discuss ways of stepping up cooperation in diverse sphere covering offshore technology, fisheries, shipping, IT and hydropower.
Singh will head the Indian delegation at the first session of the Indo-Norwegian Joint Commission co-chaired by his counterpart Jan Petersen. He is at present accompanying UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on her visit to Russia.
The entire gamut of bilateral as well as regional and international issues of concern would be discussed by the two sides, the External Affairs Ministry said here.
Singh will call on King Harald V and Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik besides meeting the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. Trade and Industry Minister Borge Brende would host a luncheon in honour of the visiting minister.
New Delhi attaches importance to its ties with Norway which was among the first countries to publicly extended it support to India's candidature for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
Singh's visit is also topical in the context of ongoing celebrations of Norway's centenary of independence. Norway has declared India to be one of the eleven partner countries for these celebrations and an ICCR troupe would perform in that country in October this year.
Bilateral trade touched US$304 million in 2004 having gone up over three fold in the last decade. Nearly 7,000 people of Indian origin currently living in Norway act as a useful bridge between the two countries.
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