UD broke rules with its funding of IPI June 3, 2021 UPDATED: Norway’s state auditor general is strongly criticizing Norway’s foreign ministry (Utenriksdepartementet, UD) over its own largely uncritical funding of the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York. IPI was until recently run by Terje Rød-Larsen, UD’s own former diplomat, who had to resign in disgrace because of his and IPI’s connections to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Norway’s Foreign Ministry was coming under harsh criticism from the State Auditor General on Thursday, over its funding for a peace institute in New York that was founded and run by one of the ministry’s former Norwegian diplomats. PHOTO: Utenriksdepartementet