Ambassador Ghafoorzai met with Newly Appointed Director of South Asia and Afghanistan Section at The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs afghanistanembassy.no - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from afghanistanembassy.no Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ambassador Ghafoorzai Met with Executive Chair & Executive Director of Oslo Center for Start of Joint Collaboration
On Wednesday the 10
th of March, the Embassy held a first virtual meeting with the Oslo Center, a Norwegian peace, democracy and human rights institution, to exchange information on the Afghan peace process and to identify possible areas of collaboration. The virtual meeting was attended by the Executive Chair of the Center and former Norwegian Prime Minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Ambassador Ghafoorzai, Executive Director of the Center, Finn Jarle Rode and Senior Advisor Bjarte Tørå.
The Oslo Center was founded in 2006 by former PM Kjell Bondevik and former Cabinet Minister Einar Steensnæs as an “independent, non-partisan, non-governmental organisation.” The organisation is focused on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16: “peace, justice and strong institutions,” particularly on the functioning, strength and stability of institutions.
Embassy of Afghanistan in Oslo Hosts Virtual ANDSF Commemoration Day Ceremony afghanistanembassy.no - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from afghanistanembassy.no Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Afghanistan Embassy
Today, Tuesday the 2
nd of February 2021, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Oslo facilitated the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Kabul University and Oslo Metropolitan University, to mark the beginning a long-term partnership between the two universities.
The ceremony was attended by the two respective heads of Universities, Chancellor Prof. Mohammad Osman Babury of Kabul University and Rector Prof. Curt Rice of Oslo Metropolitan University, together with the heads of various faculty and departments of their institutions, as well as Ambassador Ghafoorzai as facilitator of the meeting and Norwegian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ole Andreas Lindeman.